Lodestar
Lodestar is building tools for the next industrial revolution in space.
Founded by two space manufacturing researchers who’ve pioneered work into Hyperloop and lunar 3D printing, Lodestar has already built a prototype robotic arm with funding from the European Space Agency and Innovate UK. With letters of intent worth several millions of dollars and a demo mission planned with a leading US spacecraft manufacturer, they’re on track to be the first company to put an affordable arm in orbit.
Founders
Neil Buchanan
CEO
Deep-tech team builder and leader responsible for the UK’s most advanced Hyperloop Pod. A two time SpaceX Global Finalist, he has built supersonic rockets awarded by the European Space Agency, and has fundraised to bring these frontier ideas to reality.
Thomas Santini
CTO
Built his first 3D printing company at 15. Ex-Dyson Engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Scholar with a Master’s from the University of Bath in pioneering space robotics for construction on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First
Pre-Seed ($2.5 million) led by Inflection.xyz and Lunar Ventures