Michael Mealling

General Partner

2017 - Current

Starbridge Venture Capital is a new investment fund focused on the revolutionary technologies driving the expansion of the space industry. By taking a multidisciplinary approach in identifying innovative ideas, from software to materials science, our team is able to discern which technologies have the strongest terrestrial market potential while also being key enablers in the future development of space. These key companies are set to benefit the most from infrastructural developments currently occurring in space and offer the best near term exit opportunities for our investors.

President

2017

The Moon Society envisions a future in which the free enterprise human economy has expanded to include settlements on the Moon and elsewhere, contributing products and services that will foster a better life for all humanity on Earth and beyond, inspiring our youth, and fostering hope in an open-ended positive future for humankind.

CEO

2017

CTO

2015 - 2017

Along with the CFO, rebuilt Seraph's operational backend, provided due diligence on space and technology deals, and deployed a custom investor portal.

Vice President, Technology

2014 - 2015

Co-founder

2012 - 2014

Have you ever noticed that most of the people in your social network don't share your taste in books, restaurants, or TV shows? We are going to fix that by finding people who have your same taste in stuff and help you collaboratively filter out all of the irrelevant crap out there.

Managing Partner - Data Practice

2007 - 2014

Managed consultants, business development and strategy for a new consulting company targeting cable and wireless telecom companies. The company’s value proposition is vendor neutral design and development of backend business systems for converged applications and networks. The Data Practice focused on managing technical strategy for a multi-million dollar Identity and Access Management deployment (Siteminder/Identity Manager and SunONE LDAP), evaluating vendors and strategy for new SOA architecture, and providing market and technology direction to the business sponsor’s Federated Identity project. As of 2011 the company is valued at roughly $20 million with over 30 senior consultants placed at customers such as Cox Communications, Time Warner, Sprint, and US Cellular.

Contractor

2009 - 2012

Deployed a campus-wide virtual hosting infrastructure handling roughly 1000 sites. Required evaluating existing business requirements, developing architecture capable of scaling up and out, and developing custom applications for integrating with existing campus IAM infrastructure.

CFO/VP of Business Development

2004 - 2011

Successfully bootstrapped a ground breaking aerospace startup in 2005 that grew from three founders to ten full time employees. This included raising $1.2 million in external capital, winning and managing SBIR grants, building financial models, business plan, investment pitches, channel strategies, and marketing/PR campaigns. The company won the Lunar Lander Challenge XPRIZE competition in 2009 for a total prize purse of $1.15 million.

CEO/Founder

2004 - 2005

Founded an RFID-enabled supply chain management startup focused on bringing Internet based supply chain solutions to small businesses. Provided technical leadership to EPCglobal, the recognized leader in RFID and supply chain automation standards and deployment. Startup closed down in August of 2005 due to immaturity of the market. Wrote two major software packages: xcEPC Network Core (Java classes for interfacing with the EPCglobal ) and the EPCBrowser for browsing product and supply chain data.