In 26 years of VC, I have invested in just two space companies, and today, I am SO proud to see Planet is going public!
They are like the iPhone of satellites disrupting the mainframe incumbents and generating 10x the Earth imagery as all other companies combined. Here are some memories from a decade down memory lane. I led the seed round in 2011 before they incorporated and became the first outside board member, then led the Series A too. And they started, iconically, in a Silicon Valley garage, with big dreams to help humanity from above the clouds.
Today, they raster scan the entire Earth daily, and using their ML overlay, they can now count every tree on Earth every day, for a metric of de/reforestation. Stay tuned for more from them on the state of the planet… imagine daily water reservoir levels, new housing starts, cars in parking lots, globally. This was not possible before. https://www.planet.com
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