
About
Tess Hatch is an aerospace engineer-turned-investor at Bessemer Venture Partners who worked directly on government payload integration with the Falcon 9 at SpaceX and participated in NASA JPL's Curiosity rover program, including being in mission control during the Mars landing. She focuses on frontier hardware companies that build recurring-revenue layers on top of physical products and has served as a board director at public space companies like Spire Global and Rocket Lab, giving her an operator-style view of taking space businesses from early-stage to public markets. Tess Hatch is an aerospace engineer-turned-investor at Bessemer Venture Partners who worked directly on government payload integration with the Falcon 9 at SpaceX and participated in NASA JPL's Curiosity rover program, including being in mission control during the Mars landing. She focuses on frontier hardware companies that build recurring-revenue layers on top of physical products and has served as a board director at public space companies like Spire Global and Rocket Lab, giving her an operator-style view of taking space businesses from early-stage to public markets.