Bent Pipe

One viral video
shouldn't need a billion
identical transmissions.

Millions of people watch the same video. Each smartphone requests its own copy, and each delivery uses mobile network capacity. Demand keeps growing. The spectrum carrying it is finite.

The team

Founders

Daniel Faber

Co-CEO

Founded Orbit Fab, pioneering commercial satellite refueling, and brought water-based propulsion to market as CEO of Deep Space Industries. Co-founded Antarctic Broadband, developing the first Ka-band transponder for micro- and nano-satellites.

Chris Thein

Co-CEO

Serial space hardware founder with two decades building spacecraft electronics and constellations. Co-founded EOI Space, securing NTT DATA investment and exclusive Japanese distribution.

Sean Wallace

CFO

Former AST SpaceMobile and Cogent CFO. Helped take Iridium public, financed Globalstar, and oversaw $1B raised at AST. Headed North American telecom and Asia Pacific investment banking at JPMorgan.

Senior personnel

Marc Berte

VP Mission

Founded Overview Energy, demonstrating airborne laser power transmission. Former Raytheon Engineering Fellow; developed high-speed compute and signal-processing architectures for advanced communications systems.

Grant Bonin

VP Space

Veteran of 100+ space missions, including a dozen spectrum bring-into-use flights. Led Rocket Lab’s first Photon mission and co-founded gravityLab.

Advisers

Dr Hui Liu

Adviser

Over 30 years in wireless and mobile communication research. Among the first to develop OFDMA based mobile systems, the foundation of 4G and 5G. Designed one of the three major 3G cellular systems. Professor at the University of Washington for 20 years. Independent expert across satellite communications, mobile intelligence, and AI.

Naren Tayal

Adviser

Advised senior leadership across the executive branch, National Security Council, Defense Department, and intelligence community on technology strategy; held commercial roles at Intel Capital, Macquarie Bank, and Sybase/SAP.

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