When Lisa Rich held a call with investors in March to raise money for Aurvandil Acquisition, a company that buys startups focused on space technology, her goal was to bring in several million dollars.
Rich, a member of Aurvandil’s board, almost reached her goal within an hour.
“That just doesn’t happen,” she said, laughing.
Richard Branson is scheduled to fly to space Sunday, on a ship built by his company Virgin Galactic. Jeff Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s chief executive Monday, is set to take a spaceflight about a week later, in a spacecraft built by his company Blue Origin. And Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has a deal with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to land Americans on the moon.
But moguls are far from the only people with their eyes to the skies.