What Starlight Ventures does

Starlight Ventures is a Miami-based venture capital firm that provides permanent capital to founders building breakthrough science and technology companies. Operated as Starlight Ventures Management LLC, a subsidiary of Starlight Capital Management LLC, the firm deploys an evergreen vehicle and co-investment SPVs rather than conventional closed-end funds, enabling multi-decade holding periods. Its investment scope spans six frontier verticals — fusion energy (7 companies), space infrastructure (8), computing (5), materials (13), and life sciences (15) — with a portfolio of 45+ companies that includes Commonwealth Fusion Systems (invested 2018), Satellogic (NYSE: SATL, invested 2011), Thea Energy, Ammobia, and AtmosZero. Completed exits include Skyloom (acquired by IonQ), Carbon Engineering (acquired by Occidental), Made in Space (acquired by Redwire), and ICEYE.

The firm is led by Founder & Managing Partner Matias Mosse, supported by three associates (Nicolas Piuma, Michelle Wax, Olivia Vigil), a controller, and admin and executive-assistant staff, with a deep bench of 25+ technical and operating advisors across fusion, quantum computing, space, materials, and life sciences. Its business model rests on management fees on committed capital plus carried interest on exits; pricing, AUM, and LP composition are not publicly disclosed. Recent 2026 activity — Ammobia seed (Jan), AtmosZero $28.5M (Mar), Thea Energy $100M Series B (May), and a Fund II capital raise — signals continued investment cadence and growing syndicated check sizes, particularly in fusion and industrial decarbonization.

Name

Starlight Ventures

Legal name

Starlight Ventures Management LLC

Website

http://www.starlight.vc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Starlight Ventures is a Miami-based venture capital firm that deploys permanent capital across an evergreen fund and co-investment SPVs into frontier-technology companies spanning fusion energy, space, quantum computing, critical materials, industrial decarbonization, and life sciences.

Ownership category

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Product category

Venture Capital

NAICS

All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Early-Stage Venture Capital (Series A/B) (FSANAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multi-Sector / Generalist Growth Equity (FSANACAO), Energy & Sustainability / Climate Growth Equity (FSANACAG), Late-Stage Venture Capital (Series C+) (FSANAAAC)

Keywords

• Venture capital investing
• Frontier technology funding
• Deep tech investment
• Breakthrough science funding
• Startup equity capital

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Starlight Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides permanent equity capital and operational partnership to technical founders building breakthrough science and technology companies. The firm invests across stages from earliest institutional rounds through growth in domains including fusion energy, space infrastructure, quantum computing, critical materials, industrial decarbonization, and life sciences, structuring investments through an evergreen vehicle and co-investment SPVs.

Product overview

Starlight Ventures is a venture capital firm offering investment capital and long-term partnership to founders building breakthrough science and technology companies. The firm provides permanent capital through evergreen vehicles and co-investment SPVs, investing across stages from early institutional rounds through growth. Their investment approach focuses on three themes: compounding systems (companies whose core technology creates self-reinforcing loops), resilience as advantage (infrastructure and technologies that strengthen under pressure), and truth and coordination (technologies that improve measurement and coordination). They invest in sectors including fusion energy, space infrastructure, quantum computing, critical materials, industrial decarbonization, and life sciences.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Starlight Evergreen Investment Vehicle
• Co-Investment SPVs
• Starlight UK Fund II

Quantifiable outcome

• Over a decade of partnership with founders through pivots and scaling challenges

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Starlight Capital Management, LLCflagshipOthersStarlight Ventures Management LLC is part of the Starlight Capital platform. Starlight Capital Management, LLC owns trademarks and service marks and holds copyright to material on the Starlight Ventures website. The firm operates as part of this broader platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Patient, science-led fund backing companies that will fundamentally transform energy and industrial systems. Closely comparable on permanent-capital-style structure and frontier energy/decarbonization themes.
• Prelude Ventures: Early-stage climate and industrial-tech VC, with strong overlap on decarbonization, advanced materials, and industrial transformation themes central to Starlight's energy and materials portfolios.
• Lux Capital: Early-to-growth venture firm investing in frontier science and deep tech (space, quantum, biology, energy). Highly comparable to Starlight on thesis, stage mix, and founder-driven, technically rigorous underwriting approach.
• Innovation Endeavors: Deep-tech VC investing across AI, life sciences, climate, and frontier compute. Similar thesis to Starlight on backing founders tackling 'big hard problems' with patient capital.
• Obvious Ventures: Mission-driven VC investing in companies addressing systemic challenges across energy, health, and food. Comparable to Starlight on values-aligned thesis and frontier-climate exposure.
• DCVC (Data Collective): Deep-tech VC focused on computationally enabled breakthroughs across energy, materials, biology, and space. Closely comparable investment philosophy and stage focus to Starlight's science-driven mandate.
• Congruent Ventures: Early-stage venture firm investing across climate, energy, and sustainability — directly overlapping with Starlight's decarbonization, critical materials, and industrial themes.

Broad incumbents

• Khosla Ventures: Broad, science-heavy venture firm with deep exposure to clean energy, biotech, and frontier tech. Comparable to Starlight on willingness to back hard-tech moonshots, but with much greater AUM.
• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z): Mega-VC with broad frontier-tech exposure including American Dynamism, bio/health, and climate. Overlaps with Starlight across multiple themes but operates as a generalist platform at vastly greater scale.
• Founders Fund: Large, established frontier-tech VC backing space, biotech, and AI. Overlaps with Starlight on space and deep-tech bets (e.g., SpaceX-era portfolio) but operates at significantly larger scale and broader scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/starlightvc_

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments61 records

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