Stellar Ventures' clearest differentiator is its close relationship with Stellar Solutions, a 300+ person aerospace engineering firm that gives the fund deal flow, technical diligence, and introductions to government customers across intelligence, defense, civil, and commercial space; the fund was founded by Celeste Ford, who ran Stellar Solutions from 1995 to 2018 before starting Stellar Ventures in 2022, and it also includes co-founder David Anderman, the former general counsel of SpaceX and former COO/general counsel of Lucasfilm. Rather than only backing pure space infrastructure companies, Stellar says it invests in space-enabled businesses more broadly, mixing pure-play space companies like Xona, Vast, and Skyloom with adjacent AI, robotics, and cybersecurity companies like Atmo, Darkhive, and Corvus Robotics.