January 31, 2023

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is the Founder/Managing Partner of Global Space Ventures, which backs critical enabling technology pioneers across AI, biotechnology, space and beyond. She is widely known as a leading tech entrepreneur and investor with a passion for advancing national security and building better futures at scale. An early investor in SpaceX, she was also instrumental as co-founder/President of Escape Dynamics in meaningful advances in high power microwave systems and beamed energy technology, and its onboarding on NASA’s roadmap. She serves on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board; on NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Innovation Advisory Board; on the advisory board of the Truman Center for National Policy; on the board of directors of XPRIZE; and the board of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath). She is also a security fellow of the Truman National Security Project, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and Women Corporate Directors.