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Founders Fund

Venture Capital

Founders Fund is an institutional investor known for backing companies such as SpaceX.

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Magdrive

Magdrive develops advanced plasma thruster technology for the space industry.


Team

Delian Asparouhov

Delian Asparouhov

principal

Delian brings venture capital and startup operating experience from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Varda Space Industries.

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Trae Stephens

Partner

Trae is a partner at Founders Fund and a co-founder of Anduril Industries, Pursuit, and Sol. He previously worked as a lead data analyst at LexisNexis Special Services.

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Recent investments

Seed
£1.4M

The seed round was led by Founders Fund with participation from several investors and a public grant.

"We are thrilled to back this innovative group out of the UK, there have been many attempts at small satellite propulsion innovation over the past decade, but they have been marginal improvements on pre-existing technology, Magdrive is the first step-change improvement offering the best of chemical and electric propulsion in a single system."
— Delian Asparouhov, principal