Spacequake

Senior advisory for complex technology businesses

Strategy, capital, and execution

Dan Katz — Former CEO, Orbital Sidekick

If you’re navigating an inflection point, capital event, or strategic transaction:

dan@spacequake.io

What I Do

Spacequake provides high-impact advisory across strategy, capital and execution. Engagements are focused on situations involving capital events, strategic transactions, or operational inflection points.

  • Strategic direction and company positioning

  • Capital strategy, transactions, and partnerships

  • Navigating inflection points (growth, restructuring, change of control)

Focus Areas

  • Space, aerospace, and frontier technologies

  • Energy, infrastructure, and industrial systems

  • Companies operating at the intersection of hardware, software, and data

Select Experience

Orbital Sidekick — Co-Founder & CEO

  • Built hyperspectral satellite and analytics platform

  • Raised ~$50M in equity and ~$16M in non-dilutive capital

  • Deployed a multi-satellite constellation

  • Established commercial relationships across the energy sector

  • Active TS/SCI; supporting critical national security initiatives

Selected Advisory Work

  • Advised growth-stage technology company on strategic positioning and capital planning

  • Supported transaction and diligence process for infrastructure-focused business

  • Ongoing advisory across capital strategy, partnerships, and execution

  • Advised space technology company through acquisition process

  • Supported energy infrastructure operator on strategic initiatives

  • Direct, senior-level engagement

  • High trust, low overhead

  • Focused on a small number of situations at a time

How I Work