Join BP Century City for their monthly meeting!

Meet the speaker: Dr. Leon Alkalai, Founder & CEO of Mandal Space Ventures

Dr. Alkalai is the founder of Mandala Space Ventures. Dr. Leon Alkalai is a recently retired Technical Fellow of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology where he spent 32 years after getting his PhD at UCLA in 1989. During his career at JPL, Dr. Alkalai held numerous leadership positions and was responsible for the capture leadership of both the GRAIL mission to the Moon (2007) and the INSIGHT lander on Mars (2012). For both efforts, Dr. Leon Alkalai received Distinguished Individual Achievement medals from NASA in 2011 and 2019 respectively. Dr. Alkalai was also heading up JPL strategic partnerships and strategic planning for the Laboratory. In early 2021, Dr. Alkalai retired from JPL and created Mandala Space Ventures, a space-focused, Pasadena-based incubator for new start-ups in the emerging space economy. Leon is also the General Partner at the Explorer-1 Venture Fund which is also affiliated with the Mandala space incubator. Recently, Mandala launched its first new venture called Continuum Space Systems, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company for the emerging digital space economy.

MANDALA SPACE VENTURES AIMS TO BUILD OUT THE EMERGING SPACE ECONOMY BY PARTNERING WITH VISIONARY FOUNDERS AND ENTREPRENEURS, HARNESSING THE EXPERTISE OF THE WORLD-RENOWNED TECHNICAL TEAM AND LEVERAGING OUR STRATEGIC ACCESS TO CAPITAL

We consist of a venture studio and venture fund to build and invest in daring space technologies. Our decades of experience building and launching state-of-the-art technologies for the brutal space environment allows us to take risk and succeed in ideas where most in the industry won’t.

Cost: Free
Location: 2049 Century Park East, 26^th floor
Los Angeles 90067

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