Ariel Ekblaw

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TechStuff · TechStuff Redux: More AI in Space Than on Earth? Really!? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

In the next five years, this is an aggressive timeline to hold myself to, but I think in the next five years, maybe seven max, we will try to put in orbit a space orbital biolab.

So the first thing, it'll be a habitat.

It'll be crewed.

But the first thing that these humans are going to do is be scientists who are doing tissue engineering in orbit.

And the reason that's so special is coming back to biology being so different when you're floating.

It turns out that things like artificial retinas, if you tried to make an artificial retina on the ground here where we are today, gravity will cause these delicate little layers that you have to do to sag.

But if you're floating in space,

you can get a near perfect matrix of those protein layers that make the artificial retina.

So we actually are leading the investment round in a company called LambdaVision that is making artificial retinas in space, bringing them back down to Earth, and they would cure... Right now they're looking at retinitis pigmentosa, but there's also potential for macular degeneration.

So literally something from space addressing blindness is...

which is, I think, such a powerful application of space.

So it's not just 10 patients who get to restore their site, but it's hundreds of thousands or millions.

So that's one of the reasons we wanted Orbital Biolab.

Yes.

The way that I explain why I got into VC, because I am a scientist, like why did I decide I wanted to do VC investing?

There are things I know about in the space industry because I've done a hundred payloads, either to space, to the International Space Station, to the moon, or on zero-gravity flights.

I know what's missing.

I really intimately know what the pain points are.

And the example that I usually give people is, if you think about ocean freight,

on Earth, right?

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