Brayton is a co-founder and partner at Boost, alongside board roles at Moltbook, Unstoppable Domains, and Octane AI. He previously advised Harvard Ventures and worked as an associate at Xpert Financial.
The seed round was led by Lakestar to accelerate development and international deployment.
"Everything around us is manufactured, from the mug on your desk to the optical cables carrying our Netflix binges. Everyone talks about the glamorous side of manufacturing: generative design, material discovery, digital twins, but few spend time on the factory floor. The hard part isn’t dreaming things up inside a computer; it’s making them work at scale. Manufacturing still runs on human know-how, the kind that lets someone on the line kick a machine just right, or run a finger over a scratch, and say, ‘that’s thirty-four microns wide.’ We’re using AI to capture and scale that tacit knowledge, so engineers can design things that actually work in the real world. It’s time to manufacture the impossible."
The pre-seed round was backed by Boost VC, Sie Ventures, 7Percent Ventures, Blue Wire Capital, and angel investors.
"At Space DOTS, we are proposing an evolution to the legacy approach of testing and qualifying materials for space. We intend on becoming the trusted partner to space companies globally when it comes to in-orbit research and development and this funding will put us on the path towards doing just that."
The cryptocurrency security company has closed a Series B round backed by an international syndicate to support global expansion.
"It has been a pleasure working with Ledger, initially as seed investor and now as President. The size of the opportunity in a growing, fascinating market and the team of truly extraordinary individuals persuaded me to leave life as an investor and to re-join the corporate world. Growing this team with additional talents will be one of our main goals in the next few years."
