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Vanessa Clark is the CEO and Founder of Atomos Space. Atomos is building vehicles for a radical new use case in space, last-mile satellite transportation. Orbital transfer vehicles, nicknamed space tugs in the industry, attach to satellites and ferry them to new orbits. Think tow trucks or tug boats, but in space. Atomos is building the first of these vehicles to ever be deployed.

Check out Atomos Space

Ronak Trivedi is the founder and CEO of Pietra, a platform to help creators start direct to consumer businesses.

Pietra is bringing factories and suppliers online so that anyone can build unique products and start a brand. This is a conversation on direct to consumer companies but also on manufacturing, logistics, and the challenges of making the physical world - factories overseas - accessible via software.

Pietra just raised $15M from Kieth Rabois at Founders Fund and Andrew Chen at Andreessen Horowitz.

Check out Pietra!

Naomi Shah is the CEO and Founder of Meet Cute, a media company specializing in scripted podcasts, specifically romcoms. Naomi started Meet Cute out of Union Sq ventures where she was an investor looking for venture back-able businesses in consumer media. She just raised a $6M Series A from USV and Lerer Hippeau.

Meet Cute has a fascinating business model where they use 15 minute podcasts and the tight narrative structure of a standard romantic comedy to iterate on hundreds of different stories with hundreds of different writers, voice actors, and creators. Ultimately the goal is to create a library of scalable IP that their loyal audience can follow far beyond podcasts. Think Disney but for romantic comedies.

On the show we talk about that fast iteration on storytelling and the process behind it, how they built a killer brand, how to tell great stories.

Check out Meet Cute wherever podcasts are found. Like where you're reading these show notes.

Travis Hedge is the cofounder of Vouch Insurance Company

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Andy Bromberg is the CEO of Eco, a consumer FinTech built on US Dollar Coin. Eco bridges the gap between decentralized finance and the mass consumer market. Andy and his team just raised $26 million from A16Z Crypto.

Check out Eco

Follow the show on Twitter at @justraisedfm, Andy at @andy_bromberg, and Joe at @joeysweeny

Peter Beck is the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, a rocket company. We talk about Rocket Lab's upcoming missions to Venus and the Moon, launch as a platform for new space businesses, and of course building rockets. Rocket Lab just announced a SPAC that values the company at $4.1B.

Follow the show on Twitter at @justraisedfm, Rocket Lab at @RocketLab, and Joe at @joeysweeny

Clayton Gardner is the founder and CEO of Titan, a direct-to-consumer hedge fund. Titan went through Y Combinator in 2018 and just raised $12.5 million in a Series A from General Catalyst.

Check out Titan

Follow the show on Twitter at @justraisedfm, Clayton @virtualclay, and Joe at @joeysweeny

Nate Rodland is a General Partner at Elefund and was formerly a founder and Chief Operating Officer at Robinhood. Elefund was one of the very first investors in Robinhood and turned a $9 million fund in 2015 into seed investments in juggernauts, like Robinhood, Carta, Calm, and Pi Insurance. Along with announcing Nate as General Partner, they just announced a $30 million fund 2.

Elefund Fund 2 Announcement

Follow the show on Twitter at @justraisedfm, Elefund at @elefundVC, and Joe at @joeysweeny

Tess Hatch is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses on frontier tech and specifically space. She's on the board of Spire and is a board observer at Rocket Labs, both of which recently announced they're going public via SPACs. Prior to joining Bessemer Tess was an aerospace engineer at Boeing and SpaceX.

Follow the show on Twitter at @justraisedfm and Joe at @joeysweeny

Dimitri Dadiomov is the founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, a payments operations company. Modern Treasury just raised a $38 million series B from Altimeter following up on a $10 million raise from Benchmark. Co-hosting this episode is SVB's Head of Fintech Denny Boyle.

The MT Journal

You can follow Dimitri on Twitter at @dadiomov and Joe at @joeysweeny