About Cascade Space

Jacob Portukalian

Jacob Portukalian

Co-Founder, CEO
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Jacob started his career at SpaceX where he designed and architected the Crew Dragon communication system. Over the last 15 years he has shipped hardware and software, built teams, and delivered results.

His obsession with RF started at age 13 when he built his first ham radio and he never looked back.

Arlen Abraham

Arlen Abraham

Co-Founder, COO
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Arlen Abraham co-founded Cascade Space, bringing his experience leading mission-critical launch systems development at Astra where he managed cross-functional teams and built ruggedized infrastructure for rocket launches. He draws on his track record of shipping complex hardware products and scaling technical operations at startups including SPAN and Orion Labs.

Our Mission

We believe in an optimistic future for humanity, where many more people are living throughout the solar system than any one planet could ever sustain.

Building that future starts today. It starts with moving beyond low Earth orbit, and reaching the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. It means bringing back metals from asteroids, and even using them to build habitats in space. It means returning a human presence to the Moon, and sustaining it this time.

It also means building a company of the future. AI is here to stay, and is already reshaping what even a hardware company like Cascade can do. We are building the company we always dreamed of working for, where thoughtful people pursue aggressive goals. We are committed to achieving more with fewer people than any hardware company, while inspiring our people to be the best versions of themselves. We are not a family, but we are a team, and together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.

Cascade Space is building the communications company of the future, for companies that want to build the future, today.

BACKERS

Undeterred Capital
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