Faraz Khan

Founder & General Partner, Giant Step Capital
Faraz Khan began on MusicNow's founding team, stayed through its 2005 AOL acquisition, helped build early streaming, then pivoted to venture—early-backed Varda—and focuses on space, robotics and hard-engineering startups.
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About Faraz Khan

Faraz Khan started as a founding team member at MusicNow.com, stayed through its 2005 acquisition by AOL, and later helped build early streaming platforms there before moving into venture investing, where he got in early on Varda Space Industries during its incubation with founder Delian Asparouhov. That early bet helped shape a broader focus on space, robotics, manufacturing, and other hard-engineering fields, with investments in companies like REGENT, Albedo, Turion, Picogrid, Bear Flag Robotics, Spyce, and Cala, including Bear Flag's 10x exit to John Deere and Spyce's acquisition by Sweetgreen.

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Giant Step Capital focuses on frontier technology areas like quantum computing, robotics, biotech, aerospace, autonomous maritime systems, neurotech, and space manufacturing, with a team that includes specialists such as neuroscientist Dr. Poppy Crum and energy expert Panos Prezas, and it often invests alongside firms like Founders Fund, Lux Capital, a16z, Initialized Capital, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Its portfolio spans autonomous systems across land, sea, and space—including Bear Flag Robotics, which was acquired by John Deere for $250 million—showing a focus on physical-world autonomy rather than typical software-based AI startups.

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