Where capital meets the next frontier.

// Our why

Today's science fiction. Tomorrow's expectation.

Every major industry on Earth has a parallel new industry being built in space right now.

Manufacturing. Medicine. Energy. Computing. Robotics. Agriculture.

We believe the technologies built for space will transform life on Earth, and the right capital, deployed early, enables that future.

// Approach

How we invest.

We identify superior founders, raise around them, and help scale the technology.

Space and deep tech is the defining investment frontier of our time. Great ideas are everywhere. What’s rare is the team positioned to operate at commercial scale. We back those people and support their growth.

The market still underestimates space, carrying legacy assumptions about capital intensity and long timelines. In reality, the sector is fragmenting into capital-efficient layers where early, embedded investors can capture outsized positions in companies that become critical infrastructure.

The companies getting there first build what comes next. Alpha Funds invests where the future is heading, not where the crowd already is. We fund the future we want to live in.

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// Sophia Space — portfolio company
// Who we back

Companies we back.

Alpha Funds backs founders in space and deep tech who are first to market or built to disrupt.

Who we are

// Founder & CEO

J.D. Russell

Twice-flown Blue Origin astronaut (NS-28, NS-34) and one of only nine private astronauts to cross the Kármán Line twice. Serial entrepreneur with a track record of acquiring and scaling companies into nationally recognized market leaders.

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// Director, Investments & Operations

Austin Litteral

Former Risk Management Director at JPMorganChase and Blue Origin astronaut (NS-28). MBA with a career spanning financial services and operational leadership for growth-stage companies.

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// Director, Space Operations & Deep Tech Investments

Ben Till

First joint space planner and later Director Space Programme for the New Zealand Defence Force; most recently New Zealand's Air Attaché (space) to the United States. Two decades as a Navy and Air Force pilot with a Master of Defence Studies from King's College London.

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// Investor Relations & Communications

Rachel Lyons

Former Executive Director of Space for Humanity, where she led the first nonprofit in history to send civilians to space. B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Economics, with more than a decade at the intersection of space and leadership.

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Let's build the damn thing.

Founders · LPs · Co-investors For general inquiries, reach out directly.

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