Lisa Rich
Founder & COO, Xplore
Lisa Rich is a successful investor, strategist, communicator and operator. She is founder and Managing Partner of Hemisphere Ventures (https://www.hemisphere.com/), an early stage venture capital firm focused on frontier tech and Top VC in the space sector. Hemisphere’s portfolio includes +30 space companies, i.e. Axiom Space, Umbra Lab, PlanetIQ and Made In Space (acquired by Redwire). Ms. Rich is founder and Chief Operating Officer of Xplore (https://www.xplore.com), the first commercial space company to offer Space as a Service(R) from payload hosting to instrument tasking via its platforms – the highly-capable ESPA-class Xcraft(R) and next-gen space drone, the LightCraft(TM)
