We seek to augment existing modes of mobility and transform the transportation of people, goods, data, and ideas. Our key markets are focused on enabling efficient, sustainable movement whether it is through the air, space, the web, or across the manufacturing floor. Our investing team has experience and access across the breadth of our key sectors and can support founders on board-level corporate strategies, technical and product strategies, contract negotiations, fundraising, and access to leading companies and stakeholders across aerospace, industry, and government.
AEI HorizonX is our venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company
We seek diverse founders and extraordinary teams that are creating companies to redefine the mobility of people, goods, and data globally
“The HorizonX investing team provides unparalleled access to commercial opportunities in the aviation ecosystem – they enabled our partnership with Boeing’s inflight digital services platform”
“Tremendous support from an investing team who not only understands space technology, but supports innovators pushing the bounds of materials, engineering, and beyond”
“HorizonX has been a fantastic investment partner to work with in expanding our business. In addition to providing capital, they have mastered providing the necessary intangibles that are critical to the successful execution and expansion of a tech startup.”
“SparkCognition has benefited greatly from the active support, deep network, and creative thinking of the AEI HorizonX team and their LPs. They bring great understanding of commercial and defense tech while also supporting customer expansion.”
Who’s making the future happen?
Ai Build has developed an AI powered software platform that delivers the world’s fastest and most reliable large-scale additive manufacturing. Their platform provides seamless end-to-end automation from initial CAD design to machine-level control.
AireXpert optimizes aircraft maintenance operations with real-time collaboration, event-driven data, and a single source of truth for technical, engineering, and management teams.
Alitheon machine vision software traces goods without labels, markings, or packaging. FeaturePrint™ ID is the contactless digital identity for almost anything. Examples of traced parts: automotive powertrain parts, aerospace structural fasteners, circuit boards, and bars of precious metals
ALL.SPACE is the world’s first and only communication platform that gives you access to multiple satellite and terrestrial networks concurrently from a single device. The ALL.SPACE software-defined smart terminal platform can connect with all networks via multiple, simultaneous, full performance links that converge intelligent routing, edge computing, integrated modems, and cellular access in a fully integrated solution.
Aloft provides a unified software platform to stand-up, execute, and manage unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations; allowing any company to operate drones. Aloft’s software provides all the tools needed for every user involved in an enterprise’s FAA Part 107 UAS operations through a single common web and mobile-based user experience. One customer was been able to reduce drone inspection times from what previously took 2.5 weeks down to 2.5 hours by implementing Aloft; another was able to rollout across 650 pilots and has done over 53,000 inspection flights. Aloft is the leading FAA-approved UAS service supplier (USS), powering 70% of the monthly LAANC authorizations in the US.
Authentise scales your additive manufacturing operations through smart use of the digital thread with the Authentise aMES. Capture insight, reduce costs and increase reliability with industry-leading connectivity and flexibility. It’s connected workflow software (MES) delivers highly agile production systems while maintaining economy of scale. The system is used by leading additive manufacturing companies including Boeing, 3M, Ricoh, and Danfoss, to manage parts from order to shipment.
BridgeComm, Inc. develops secure optical (laser) communications terminals and networks for telecommunications infrastructure and government applications. With a strong record of performance on defense and space programs, BridgeComm has evolved its capabilities to support the growing demand for data throughput across aerospace and terrestrial platforms. Using its optical wireless communications technology, BridgeComm is able to provide connectivity at up to 100 gigabits per second with nearly an unlimited amount of capacity, all while being more secure compared to RF or fiber.
C360 Technologies, Inc. is the leader in ultra-high definition wide-angle, hemispherical (360°x180°) video and augmented/virtual reality technology. With its over-the-top (OTT) capabilities hundreds of thousands of users can independently interact with the real-time video to pan-tilt-zoom into their area of interest; this can be tracking a specific professional sports star during a game, or tracking an individual at an airport.
Circulor is a software platform that provides Traceability-as-a-Service, to verify responsible sourcing and underpin effective recycling in order to improve efficiency. The platform reaches into OEM supply chains to identify and track supply chain data along the journey from source to consumption whether it is to track carbon emissions or the tracking of raw materials.
Cuberg is a developer of lithium-metal batteries intended to supply sustainable, high-quality battery cells and systems. The company’s batteries are based on high-performance electrolyte technology that offers increased energy density, high-power performance, improved safety, thermal stability, and high-scale processing, enabling customers to get improved energy, enhanced shelf life and stability at elevated temperatures.
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Datch is an intelligent voice AI for industry, enabling frontline workers to capture system information using voice in real time and intelligently integrating into company databases. Their solution allows you to replace tedious frontline work processes with intuitive, natural on-the-floor conversations, while capturing structured data of work orders, maintenance logs, safety reports, and other records using just your voice.
Electric Power Systems (EPS) is the market leader in electric power solutions for the aerospace mobility market; manufacturing integrated battery packs for customers such as Boeing, Bell, Embraer, Bye Aerospace and NASA. The company specializes in producing high energy density battery solutions that are safe and certifiable, enabling high-end applications across multiple industries, such as automotive, space and marine platforms.
The power of Python. The ease of a doc. Supercharge your analysis with an all-in-one workspace that combines data, code and documentation. Filament combines a powerful interactive coding environment with an intuitive WYSIWYG text editor. With real-time collaborative editing of text and code, whether you’re a data scientist, a marketing executive or a researcher, everyone can work on the same page, at the same time.
AI-powered total revenue management software with forecast, pricing, and commercial optimization tools for airlines, travel, and transportation.
Fortem Technologies offers airspace awareness safety & security solutions to detect, assess, and categorize airborne threats in real time to commercial and government customers. Through their family of distributed radar solutions, AI at the edge, deep sensor integration, and autonomous drone capture, Fortem monitors, protects and defends the world’s venues, infrastructures, cities, and regions from dangerous or malicious drone threats and provides infrastructure for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) or radars for collision and avoidance.
AI-powered enterprise risk intelligence provider. Fraud detection platform helps digital businesses to quickly identify transactional anomalies and pinpoint fraud using artificial intelligence, big data and live-streaming visualizations.
Frontier Aerospace develops and manufactures in-space rocket propulsion and proven hypergolic propulsion which has been selected for lunar landers, axial thrusters for Tipping Point for lunar lander cargo delivery.
Gamma Alloys breakthrough is being able to nano-reinforce metal alloys for applications from standard machining to additive powder and wire applications. Gamma’s alloys can be customized to provide increased stiffness, improved wear resistance, and greater strength across a wider range of temperatures and metals. For example, Gamma’s aluminum alloy has been able to allow the replacement of steel components, thereby removing weight.
Gravity Sketch empowers enterprise teams to collaborate and create in three dimensions and digital twins. Gravity Sketch builds intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products. Customers across multiple sectors, ranging from automotive to industrial design and entertainment, have found an un-paralleled reduction in total design time by using Gravity Sketch’s 3D solutions.
HiiROC’s unique and innovative plasma technology enables a low cost and low emission process for Hydrogen generation and synthetic fuels. Their proprietary technology combines world-leading, unique plasma with cutting edge engineering,and design to produce Hydrogen for synfuel processes.
Immfly has developed a best-in-class Inflight Digital Services and Entertainment software solution for airlines that combines premium content with a back-end software platform that provides airlines with data and customer insights that drive revenue. Immfly has focused on the low cost carrier segment and has its system integrated on to over 500 aircraft today.
Intellegens’ mission is to help clients accelerate innovation by using unique deep learning solutions to extract valuable information from sparse and noisy real-world data. Intellgens’ product offering includes Alchemite™ Engine, which makes data-driven approaches to the design of complex systems quick, easy and effective as well as Alchemite™ Analytics, which is a machine learning platform for formulation design.
JuliaHub is the cloud-native platform for Julia, an open-source programming language that solves the two language problem by combining the ease of Python with the speed of C++. Ideal for technical computing – compute-intensive numerical analysis, data visualization, and machine learning – the JuliaHub platform provides collaboration, parallel and GPU computing, reproducibility, and governance that accelerate the development of mission-critical products in regulated industries.
Kraken is an information management company that provides software solutions that make supply chains digital, reduce risk and supply information that clients can trust; a digital passport from your supply chain and golden thread of your engineering, equipment and carbon footprint data, from requirement through to re-use.
Makersite is a cloud-based product management platform using AI and graph technologies to understand and improve products from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk and cost of production, simultaneously and up to 50x faster. Through a cutting-edge technology, big data, and breakthrough algorithms, companies can track a product’s emission footprint throughout the entire supply chain, including Scope 3 emissions, bringing carbon accounting to the next level.
Matternet is pioneering safe, secure and on-demand unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery operations in urban environments. Matternet became the world’s first company to receive authorization to launch UAV operations over populated areas in 2017, and has since achieved thousands of end-to-end deliveries of blood and pathogenic samples between health care facilities in Switzerland and in the U.S. with partners like UPS and CVS. Matternet is partnering with UAE leaders in logistics and Abu Dhabi Department of Health to provide city-wide medical delivery by air.
MIME Technologies solves the challenges of supporting medical emergencies at altitude and in environments remote from professional care. Their platform empowers those with first responder training to react confidently when acting on behalf of their organization.
Myriota developed a world-class Internet of Things (IoT) technology enabling two-way communications between ground-based micro-transmitters and low Earth orbit (LEO) nanosatellites. Spire Global and Myriota partner to re-imagine Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity securely share data for water, marine sciences, or resource management over narrow bandwidths. This direct-to-orbit platform supports applications across industries where IoT connectivity via traditional means is challenging and expensive and with 17 patents, Myriota is operating at lower costs and with longer battery life than its competitors, has shipped tens of thousands of modules, and has spectrum access across markets such as Australia and the United States.
Near Earth Autonomy (NEA) offers a software and hardware solution to allow aircraft to autonomously take-off, fly, and land safely, with or without GPS. All autonomous UAVs operating in the national airspace will require these capabilities to ensure safe operations. Vetted by the US Navy and DARPA, NEA’s computer vision software has been incorporated into both large manned helicopters and small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Northvolt is in the battery business. Manufacturing with clean energy, our mission is to deliver batteries with an 80% lower carbon footprint compared to those made using coal energy with a goal to produce 150 GWh of capacity by 2030.
B2B freight payment solution provider, helping shippers to pay transportation providers for their vendor payments. Provides electronic tools that automate the payment process for companies in the international supply chain enabling them to reduce operating costs and improve overall liquidity. Access the largest online network in the logistics industry with 5,000+ providers. Our Vendor network encompasses all companies in the global supply chain, especially in Ocean, Air, Railroad, Trucking and Warehousing.
Perpetual Labs is developing a virtual design integration platform (CIPHRE) to dramatically decrease time and cost necessary for systems engineering and design integration activities whilst lowering the development risks. Its object-oriented modelling and machine learning for end-to-end system simulation provides model-based design and quality planning solutions.
Phycobloom is using synthetic biology to reduce the cost of algae biofuels. Phycobloom is engineering new strains of algae that instead of holding onto their oil, actually release it into their environment where it can be easily and cheaply collected.
Plyable is the world’s leading custom composite mold producer. Plyable’s solution replaces tooling designers, tooling procurement, and any barriers that may remain to enable its customer to innovate. Plyable’s global network can deliver the highest quality, precision molds up to 45% faster, using advanced AI coupled with industry experts.
Productive Machines delivers a digital twin based learning platform that maximizes sustainability of machining processes by reducing costs, eliminating waste and improving productivity delivering insight into the machining process to overcome process induced problems such as poor surface finish, low dimensional accuracy, instability etc.
Quincus has developed a logistics platform with scalable, real-time supply chain visibility software that enables automated operations, reduces delivery costs, and improves efficiency for operators, particularly those in emerging markets.
Founded over 30 years ago, Reaction Engines Limited (REL) has been on a journey to develop a propulsion system that has the fuel efficiency of a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a rocket. REL is focused on making space and hypersonic travel more efficient and accessible while applying REL breakthroughs to bring a step change increase in efficiency to an array of commercial industries today. The company has formed significant partnerships with the UK government, BAE Systems, Boeing and Rolls Royce to support the commercialization of it’s products and technology.
Red 6 is an augmented reality company for military training and commercial applications worldwide. Its patented display technology augments the joint space through a suite of AR products that support the synthetic training environments – transforming Live, Virtual and Constructive training by providing crucial capabilities to advance U.S. Military and allied readiness. Red 6 brings the Virtual and Constructive assets into the real-world by allowing pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors and high-speed environments.
Revolution Space is pioneering scalable electric propulsion technology to transform satellite capabilities in and beyond Earth’s orbit. Revolution Space removed the heavy tanks, pumps, valves, toxic propellants, external cathodes and ionization chambers found in conventional propulsion systems and created a new ion engine: one that’s lighter, more efficient, more powerful — and can be manufactured hundreds of units at a time.
Robot Morning creates software that automates & analyzes the data exchanged between you, your customers and your suppliers. Robot Morning’s mission is to improve how the entire supply chain communicates with itself, both through the automatic movement of supply chain data and by creating software that provides action-driving insights. DemandLine synchronizes your order book with your customer’s requirements; sends them expected delivery dates based on your plans; and creates shipment notifications when you ship to them.
Robotic Skies is a two-sided marketplace offering inspection and maintenance services for unmanned aircraft system (UAS). As commercial UAS operations increase in complexity, the safety requirements will be equivalent to today’s business aviation rules that require the use of certified maintainers and manage copious aviation data for compliance and optimization of operations. Robotic Skies addresses both of these challenges through its network of more than 170 civil aviation authority-certified repair stations and suite of aviation-grade software tools & workflows. By providing the foundational software tools to OEMs and repair stations Robotic Skies is well positioned to expand into data analytics services such as predictive maintenance, and supply chain optimization.
Salient Motion is developing an electric motion operating system designed to reimagine the supply chain with the help of cutting-edge software. Salient Motion integrates a software operating system and virtual lab bench tool suite for motors, drivetrains, and other complex components for aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial applications. Their software-first approach can dramatically reduce cost, complexity, lead time, and development time for highly regulated, exquisite components.
Second Front Systems (2F) fast-tracks government access to disruptive, commercially-proven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for national security missions. Leading software providers — ranging from publicly traded defense contractors to startups — and government agencies trust 2F’s Game Warden DevSecOps platform and secure cloud hosting environment to accelerate their delivery and harness the cloud revolution at scale.
SensaWeb provides a complete end-to-end real time monitoring solution for any organisation who needs to monitor and report on Radiation and X-Ray regulatory requirements.
Septillion and its Fibrecode solution provides a secure provenance assurance platform for authenticating physical assets and verifying the genuine asset throughout the supply chain and beyond. Using its Fibrecode®, Septillion connects the Physical to Digital®. Through its unique algorithm, Septillion is able to read random fibers, which can be embedded in papers, cards, coatings and other substrates to prevent counterfeits and enable quality control and traceability.
Shift5 is an operational technology (OT) cybersecurity company that defends military platforms and critical transportation systems from cyberattacks. Shift5 unlocks the serial networks and data that control planes, trains, and tanks, providing visibility into fleet assets where operators have historically been locked out and allows operators to gain complete observability, detect threats, and maintain resilience of OT systems as cyber-physical attacks become an increasingly attractive strategy for digital attackers.
Signol is the world’s first software to use behavioral science to reduce airlines’ greenhouse gas emissions and increase profits and job satisfaction. Their SaaS and mobile application platform motivates airline pilots to consistently implement operational best practices that make measurable fuel cost and CO2 savings for airlines and other businesses. Nudging employees to be more efficient, one decision at a time.
Skylo Technologies is an Internet of Things (IoT) space startup helping enterprises affordably and effectively manage their assets, regardless of location. Backed by leading investors including SoftBank, DCM and Innovation Endeavors, Skylo’s extremely low-cost hubs and data platforms are being leveraged by organizations looking to remain competitive in our increasingly data-driven world.
Solestial is a space solar energy company developing ultrathin and lightweight silicon solar cells and panels that can self-cure radiation damage at normal operating temperatures in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Solestial’s solar panels can be produced at scale using automated production methods at 90 percent lower cost than solar panels widely used by today’s satellite industry. This best-in-class silicon photovoltaic technology, which is optimized for space, delivers orbital reliability of at least 10 years in LEO.
SparkCognition has established itself as a machine learning technology leader, developing a cognitive, data-driven analytics platform for the safety, security and reliability of physical assets and processes. Its technology has the ability to analyze operations and continuously learn from structured and unstructured data. All of the company’s products can be seamlessly delivered via the cloud or on devices, and can also run on top of a client’s interface of choice.
Tidelift is an open-source supply chain resiliency platform. Tidelift leverages a two-sided marketplace to help mitigate health and security issues in open-source software for enterprise level organizations. Tidelift’s open-source management subscription provides enterprises with a unique tool to create, track and manage catalogs of approved open-source components to avoid using at-risk code – mitigating potential cyberattacks or infrastructure workflow bottle necks.
Tsecond is reforming how we capture, analyze, and transport massive amounts of data to be simple, fast, and cost-effective. Tsecond provides platform solutions for use in multiple markets to capture and transport very large amounts of data very quickly, with the ability to retain that data for many years. The company’s core product is the Data BRYCK, which is a tamper proof, portable, compact and rugged petabyte storage solid block with no moving parts.
Virgin Galactic is a vertically-integrated aerospace company pioneering human spaceflight for private individuals & researchers, and it also manufactures advanced air and space vehicles. Using its technologies, it is developing a spaceflight system designed to offer its customers a unique, multi-day, and transformative experience. This culminates in a spaceflight that includes views of Earth from space and several minutes of weightlessness that will launch from Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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A long history backing aerospace and industrial innovation
HorizonX was born within The Boeing Company as the dedicated venture capital arm of the world’s largest aerospace company in 2017. In 2021, Boeing partnered with AE Industrial Partners to create a leading venture capital investing platform for hard-tech and leading software solutions addressing the sustainable future of the mobility of data, people, and cargo across the aerospace, defense, and industrial sectors. The longevity and deep networks of Boeing and AE Industrial provide our team of investors an unfair advantage to support entrepreneurs who want to create their own revolutionary business.
With 100+ years of Boeing and 20+ years of AE Industrial Partners, our investing team proudly continues the legacy of supporting innovation and world changing businesses.
Our investing team proactively supports our founding teams by establishing connections with our extensive network of experts and advisors who help founders navigate areas, including customer relationships, regulatory environments, and engineering – all of which are critical to building and scaling a business in our target markets. Our ongoing proprietary relationship with Boeing combined with AE Industrial’s network of leading industry figures and experts provides unmatched access to capabilities of the world’s largest aerospace company and extensive channels to market and customer opportunities.
Our investing team looks for outstanding founders who are confidently rooted in technology and remain agile in their business decisions. We partner with companies beginning with Series A and Series B investments and continue to actively engage and work with our companies at every stage of their growth.
Who’s supporting our entrepreneurs?
Mr. Brown is a Senior Associate at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2023, he worked as a consultant for VMO Air, an aircraft leasing firm, and for H55, an electric aircraft systems manufacturer. Before that, Mr. Brown was an investor at P2 Capital Partners, a New York-based hedge fund. He began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, where he focused on M&A and capital raising for technology and natural resources companies.
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MBA
- Dartmouth College, BA
- VMO Air
- H55
- P2 Capital Partners
- Morgan Stanley
Mr. Fraint is a Vice President at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2022, Mr. Fraint served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Clearcover, driving operational excellence across the business. Prior to Clearcover, he served as the SVP of Strategy and Operations at NexLP, an AI NLP data analytics company, and grew the team from 10 to 35+ employees through acquisition. Mr. Fraint has extensive experience in research, analysis and strategy, and has been recognized as a leader in collaborating with C-suite executives across the start-up community. Mr. Fraint lived in Israel for nearly a decade, serving in the elite Paratrooper’s of the Israel Defense Forces and working in the U.S. State Department’s Local Guard Force.
- Reichman University, BA
- Georgetown University, MA
- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, MBA
- Clearcover
- NexLP
Ms. Graupman is an Associate at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2022, Ms. Graupman headed the Program Management department at Knight Aerospace, where she managed the development and production of new mission systems for military cargo aircraft. Prior to Knight Aerospace, Ms. Graupman worked in key roles at multiple technology startups spanning from Project Management and Operations to Sales and Business Development. She is also a member of Venture for America, a two-year entrepreneurship fellowship that serves to create economic opportunity in American cities. Fellows complete intensive training and commit to spending two years working at high-growth organizations in emerging startup ecosystems.
- University of Delaware, BS
- Knight Aerospace
Mr. Jackson is a Principal at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Mr. Jackson currently serves on the boards of AEI HorizonX portfolio companies: Accion Systems, BridgeComm, EP Systems, Immfly, and Skylo Technologies. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2021, Mr. Jackson was an Investing Director at Boeing HorizonX Ventures, working with early-stage companies focused on the future of mobility and space, having led investments in Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE), EP Systems and Immfly. He also helped establish Boeing’s global accelerator program, working with industry and government partners to create a platform to support entrepreneurs building businesses around customer needs. Mr. Jackson was recognized by the Global Corporate Venturing Institute in 2020 as a Rising Star. Prior to Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Mr. Jackson spent two years based in Australia leading product strategy and business development for Phantom Works, Boeing’s advanced prototyping division. Mr. Jackson worked alongside customers to define requirements and secure funding for the Airpower Teaming System, Boeing’s first aircraft designed and developed outside of the United States. Previously, Jackson was a senior strategist at Boeing corporate and business unit groups, leading initiatives across M&A, technology and innovation strategy, and investment planning. Previous roles include consulting analyst at IHS Markit, where he specialized in defense market analysis, competitive strategy and dual-use technology assessments, and Foreign Military Sales to allied countries at the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command.
- Georgetown University, MA
- Johns Hopkins University, BA
- Boeing HorizonX Ventures
- Phantom
- Boeing
- IHS Markit
Mr. Joyce is the Chairman of AE Industrial HorizonX and a Strategic Advisor to AE Industrial across its entire portfolio of investments and strategies. He brings more than 40 years of leadership experience at GE Aviation, where he served for 12 years as President & CEO, and also served as the former Vice Chairman of the General Electric Company. Under Mr. Joyce’s leadership, GE Aviation doubled its revenue to $33B and grew its backlog 10-fold to $270B. His tenure at GE Aviation was also considered a golden era of aviation innovation, including the development of new, fuel-efficient engine technologies and transformative manufacturing materials and processes, as well as the formation of global alliances solidifying GE Aviation’s world-leading position for jet engines, components and integrated systems for commercial aviation and military aircraft. Mr. Joyce brings a broad network of long-standing relationships with commercial, military and government customers as well as regulatory agencies worldwide. Mr. Joyce is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Director of The Boeing Company. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Xavier University, and is a Board Member Emeritus of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. His past board affiliations include the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Aerospace Industries Association Executive Committee.
- Xavier University, MBA
- Michigan State University, BS and MS
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- General Electric
- GE Aviation
Mr. Kim is a Vice President at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2018, Mr. Kim was a Specialist in the Corporate Development group at The Boeing Company, where he focused on M&A and other strategic activities. Prior to Boeing, Mr. Kim was a member of Sandler O’Neill + Partners’ Investment Banking Group, where he focused on M&A and capital raising for financial institutions.
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business, MBA
- Northwestern University, BA
- The Boeing Company
- Sandler O’Neill + Partners
Mr. Lohnert is a Partner at AE Industrial and member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2021, Mr. Lohnert was a founding member of Boeing HorizonX Ventures and Managing Director leading the venture team responsible for investing and managing the portfolio of over 40 global investments. He was recognized by a leading global corporate venture capital industry group, Global Corporate Venturing Institute, as a Top 10 Emerging Leader in 2020 and a Rising Star in 2018 and 2019 from the over 2,200 firms they track globally. Mr. Lohnert led the investment in Isotropic Systems, Accion Systems, BridgeComm, C360 Technologies, Gamma Alloys, Myriota, Cuberg (acquired by NorthVolt), Agylstor (acquired by Tsecond), and Morf3D (acquired by Nikon). Mr. Lohnert was also a senior strategist responsible for emerging business opportunities, corporate strategy, and mergers & acquisitions and partnerships and program manager and instructor for Boeing’s enterprise strategy training course. Prior to Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Mr. Lohnert was director of energy investments for a private equity group where he invested in the alternative energy, natural gas, and electrical generation sectors, as well as led turnarounds of portfolio investments. He has also held strategy and mergers & acquisitions responsibilities for a specialty chemicals division of a major oil company and while living in Zürich, a global financial services company. Mr. Lohnert was previously on the board of directors of Pasadena Angels, ranked by Forbes as a top ten angel investor group and remains active as an angel investor. Mr. Lohnert has completed programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Swiss Banking Institute at the University of Zürich, and University of California Haas School at Berkeley.
- Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University, MBA
- Ohio State University, BSBA
- Boeing HorizonX Ventures
- Boeing Enterprise Strategy
- Montauk Energy Capital
- BNY Mellon
- Pasadena Angels
Mr. Rowe is a Principal at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Mr. Rowe has been focused on early-stage investing for the last 12 years. Pulling from a deep experience in music, film, apparel and tech, Mr. Rowe helps identify, evaluate and lead unique early-stage venture investments across all of AEI HorizonX’s target markets. In addition, with his operational experience, Mr. Rowe provides direct support to AE Industrial’s portfolio companies to help create value in their leading innovation platforms.
- UCLA, MBA
- Wharton’s Executive Ventures Program
- University of Alabama, BA
Mr. Schettler is a Partner at AE Industrial and leads AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2021, Mr. Schettler was a Founder and Senior Managing Director of Boeing HorizonX Ventures. He led the Boeing venture capital team chartered with investing in selected startups throughout the world. His team identified and pursued opportunities to make investments in startup companies with discriminating and disruptive technologies for next-generation Aerospace, Defense, and Security applications. He has been recognized by Global Corporate Venturing Institute for creating and leading a Top 30 corporate venture capital unit out of the 2,200+ that they track globally. Mr. Schettler has over two decades of experience in aerospace, technology, and defense companies and has led numerous investment transactions in his career to include venture, M&A, and divestiture. Prior roles include leading global companies in strategy and corporate development. Mr. Schettler spent a year as the acting Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Boeing while also leading the HorizonX team. He spent three years as vice president of corporate strategy at Cobham plc, a global technology company headquartered in the United Kingdom, where he led corporate and business strategy development, including the evaluation and prioritization of private venture investment across its diversified product lines. He spent another two years at ATK and was responsible for corporate strategy and portfolio development. He also was a senior strategist for Boeing Military Aircraft and Phantom Works, where he led M&A, business strategy, and partnership development in Silicon Valley and beyond. Finally, Mr. Schettler led strategy and program operations for the Space Systems Division of Northrop Grumman, managing their technology portfolio and investments.
- University of Maryland, MBA
- Northwestern University, BS
- Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Executive education courses
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Engineering certifications
- Boeing HorizonX Ventures
- Boeing
- Cobham plc
- ATK
- Northrop Grumman
Mr. Van Buskirk is a Vice President at AE Industrial and a member of AEI HorizonX, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company. He is a retired Navy Captain and accomplished aviator with over 2,500 flight hours across nine military and civil aircraft. With 25 years of Department of Defense experience, he is a founding member of both the Secretary of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital, whose mission is to align private capital with critical national security objectives, and the Navy’s Warfighting Development Directorate, where he was charged with running a framework focused on solving the Navy’s most pressing operational problems. He also served as Director of NavalX, the sea service’s innovation and agility cell, which addressed friction points between acquisition, fleet requirements, R&D, budgeting, end users and industry. As an operational squadron commander, his unit was honored as the best helicopter sea-combat squadron in the Pacific Fleet and for having the best aviation maintenance program in the U.S. Department of Defense. Over his tenure, he has advised numerous startups, investors and senior industry leaders and operated at the highest level of government.
- University of Arizona, BS
- Naval Postgraduate School, MBA (Defense Focus)
- UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Understanding Defense Industry Program
- Harvard Business School, Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship Program
- Office of Strategic Capital
- NavalX
- Warfighting Development Directorate
- VMware, Inc.
- “Golden Falcons”
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dr. Vigeant-Langlois is Managing Director at AE Industrial with a primary focus on new business development and portfolio management across AE Industrial’s private equity, venture capital, and aircraft leasing funds. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of AE Industrial portfolio companies: Alpine Air, Applied Composites, Columbia Helicopters, Edge Autonomy and G.S. Precision, and on HorizonX’s venture investments Near Earth Autonomy and FLYR Labs. Prior to joining AE Industrial, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois worked for GE Aviation as Chief Executive Officer of the GE Passport joint venture and program management executive responsible for the Passport, CF34-3 and CF34-8C engines on Bombardier and Mitsubishi’s business and regional aircraft. Previously at GE, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois played a key role on the founding team that launched and grew GE Additive as a leading force in industrial 3D printing, and led the strategy and global field marketing teams supporting the sale of GE Aviation’s engines, systems and services across commercial, business and military aviation. Before GE, Dr. Vigeant-Langlois led commercial, product and engineering teams in aerospace and high-tech industries. At Sikorsky Aircraft (now part of Lockheed Martin), she launched new engineering innovation programs. At aircraft lessor CIT (now Avolon), she gained increasing responsibilities in the acquisition of over $9B of aircraft and engines. At The Weather Company (part of IBM), she led the democratization of cockpit weather information and the launch of SiriusXM Aviation Weather. She also previously transported air freight flying Learjets across North America. She is certified as an FAA commercial pilot with Learjet privileges and is a flight instructor in gliders. She serves as an advisor to digital/AI health company Triangulate Labs, and has previously served as a trustee with iSPACE and on the boards of IAWA, ATRIF and the MIT Enterprise Forum.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SM and PhD
- McGill University, BEng
- International Space University, Certificate in Space Studies
- GE Aviation
- Sikorsky Aircraft
- CIT Aerospace
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