Jonathan Lacoste is a former teenage tech founder who co-founded Jebbit at 19, raised nearly $100M, and sold to Vista, bringing a decade of operator experience to his role as an investor at Space.VC where he focuses on finding founders before they start companies and writing the true first check. He positions space as part of a broader hardtech movement rather than a siloed vertical, tracking founder migration from top tech and defense companies as his strongest signal for where new value is forming, and advocates for concentrated pre-seed investing in mission-obsessed founders building orbital infrastructure that serves as a silent backbone for terrestrial enterprise markets like insurance, finance, and agriculture. Jonathan Lacoste is a former teenage tech founder who co-founded Jebbit at 19, raised nearly $100M, and sold to Vista, bringing a decade of operator experience to his role as an investor at Space.VC where he focuses on finding founders before they start companies and writing the true first check. He positions space as part of a broader hardtech movement rather than a siloed vertical, tracking founder migration from top tech and defense companies as his strongest signal for where new value is forming, and advocates for concentrated pre-seed investing in mission-obsessed founders building orbital infrastructure that serves as a silent backbone for terrestrial enterprise markets like insurance, finance, and agriculture.