For founders building hard things.
If you're turning deep engineering into a company across Space, Autonomy, or Robotics, we want to hear from you. We partner early and stay hands-on.
What we look for
- Technical founders with deep domain expertise
- Engineering depth that creates durable advantage
- Hard problems in complex, real-world environments
- A credible path from prototype to production
- Dual-use potential across commercial and defense
Where we focus
- Space tech: infrastructure and enabling technologies
- Autonomy: autonomous vehicles, perception, and planning
- Robotics: automating physical industries
- Pre-seed through Series A
- Companies that need an operator, not just a check
Beyond capital: An operator on your cap table.
We work shoulder-to-shoulder with early teams on the things that actually move hard-tech companies forward.
Your first ten hires
We recruit alongside you, senior engineers and operators sourced from across our network.
Pilots & first customers
Warm paths to the enterprises, OEMs, and integrators that become your earliest deployments.
Dual-use navigation
Guidance into defense and government demand, procurement, compliance, and the right doors.
Prototype to production
Manufacturing strategy, supplier introductions, and the operational muscle to ship hardware.
Regulatory & certification
Help charting approvals across orbit, road, factory, and field, before they become blockers.
Next-round positioning
Downstream investor introductions and the metrics story for your Series A and beyond.
Send us your pitch: Tell us what you're building.
Share a short description and your deck. We read every intro. If there's a fit, a partner replies directly, typically within a few business days.
Prefer email? Send a short intro to companies@ixsar.com with the subject line "Founder Intro". An intro is the fast path; prefer a structured application with status tracking? Apply for Funding.
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