"Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Space-Based Interceptor Capabilities with Apex for U.S. Space Force" Today, @Apex_Satellites steps into a whole new arena. Golden Dome's Space-Based Interceptors (SBI) are the critical layer that protects all of us from utter devastation. Looking at the events in the Middle East and Ukraine in recent months, it is obvious how mission-critical this system is. The SBI constellation is the key asset to keep our citizens, warfighters, and allies out of harm's way. Today's partnership announcement with @northropgrumman is a momentous moment for Apex. Northrop is the leading space defense company, and their decision to partner with Apex was not taken lightly. Apex enables the Northrop Apex team to pull off exactly what we built Apex to do: leverage productized spacecraft platforms, combine them with the world's best payloads and mission enablement, and protect our citizens and warfighters. Apex provides a clear set of advantages to our partners: * Speed - our production line of productized buses is delivering at scale, with bus deliveries available in as short as weeks (and soon days!). * Affordability - we don't charge NRE or play games with our customers. Buy a satellite on the website at the price you see with Apple Pay. * Quality - our systems work: as the only "new space" company to have 2 years of continuous flight heritage, with customers still using their payloads on a daily basis (and much more heritage to come later this year). Now comes the hard part - continued execution. Building on the back of Project Shadow, our self-funded space-based interceptor host-vehicle demonstration launching this summer, we feel confident that bringing the absolute best of Northrop Grumman and Apex together will allow America to field a massive constellation that lets all of us sleep safer every night. Back to work. news.northropgrumman.com/sbi…

At @Apex_Satellites, we are proud to support America's most critical space programs ensuring safety and security for the next 250. Happy birthday, America.

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Always great catching up with @IanCinnamon Apex will win

Love having @cantos on our cap table!

.@IanCinnamon started as @markpinc's tech assistant: "Ian was a star recruit." Ian was put on the Poker team, but within 1-2 quarters, they marked him as "low-value, low-potential." "The team said, 'He's too entrepreneurial.'" "I talked to Ian. He said, 'They're doing dumb ideas.'" " So I plucked him out early, much earlier than I would normally, and made him my tech assistant."

BREAKING: Mark Pincus (@markpinc) on How to Build Billion-Dollar Products "Your # 1 job as a founder is to be right." "F*ck scale." "Don't be a fake CEO." Mark founded Zynga in 2007, grew FarmVille Words With Friends to 1B users in 4 years, & sold the company to Take-Two for $12.7B. Before that he was an early investor in Facebook & Twitter. Across 10 companies, he's spent 30 years learning how to build products people love. Now he's put it into "Life at the Speed of Play," aka the "Product Maker Bible" His goal: something you can reread in 10 years & still use, the way he rereads Peter Thiel's Zero to One. We went deep on the framework: - Your product instinct is right ~95% of the time, but your specific idea is wrong at least 75% of the time. The whole job is separating the two & k*lling your B idea to find the A. - Proven Better New: copy what already works, make it objectively better, then add one new bet. - 40,000 games launched in the App Store last year. 0% held a top 25 spot. Why products win on day 365 retention, not virality.. lessons from @nikitabier & more - Why he's an AI maximalist who still calls consumer AI un-investable, & thinks today's $2-5T companies become $10-20T companies. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Mark Pincus, Chairman & Founder at Zynga (01:07) Why it took so long to write the book (01:52) Why the book starts with Elon (07:29) How frustration becomes market research (08:16) The gap between Airbnb and hotels (09:14) Why people don't want flight attendants on private jets (13:13) The goal behind Life at the Speed of Play (15:07) The instincts vs. ideas framework (21:01) Do instincts improve with experience? (22:49) A framework for building winning products (29:38) Becoming a student of yourself (31:16) Finding great ideas in overlooked products (34:39) Why AI makes building easier & winning harder (39:17) Cracking Zynga's record-setting retention (44:59) What Mark looks for in startups (50:42) Jeff Bezos' boldest decision (53:03) What happens when founders realize they're wrong (59:37) How Mark found talent others overlooked (1:06:58) Don't be a fake CEO (1:12:15) Inside Silicon Valley's early days (1:14:58) Why he funded Friendster & Napster as "experiments" (1:17:00) The 'think weekend' with Thiel, Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman & Sean Parker (1:18:58) Launching Zynga when nobody believed him (1:21:42) Why Mark is an AI maximalist

We’re hiring a Hard Tech Investment Associate @UpfrontVC !! I’ve never been more convinced about what’s being built here. The physical backbone of this country is getting rebuilt. We’re looking for someone sharp, high agency, and wired into the LA scene to join us.

We're excited to share that Sophia Space has tapped Apex to demo their TILE onboard compute modules on Apex’s Nova platform next year. “Apex was built to power innovative space missions, helping teams move from breakthrough technology to operational spacecraft faster,” said @IanCinnamon, Co-Founder & CEO of Apex. “Sophia’s vision for real-time orbital computing is exactly the kind of mission our Nova platform is designed to support, giving them a reliable, scalable path to bring edge computing capabilities to orbit.” Read more here: spacenews.com/sophia-selects…

The pod is evolving. @Apex_Satellites

Meet Noah Gordon, Senior GNC Engineer here at Apex! Noah brings over seven years of experience as a Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer (GNC) from both Boeing and Turion, including five years at Boeing as an Astrodynamics Engineer. He holds a Master of Science from @Stanford and a Bachelor of Science from @LifeAtPurdue in Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering. As a Senior GNC Engineer, Noah brings real-world experience operating 14 different spacecraft in LEO, MEO, and GEO and helps ensure that Apex’s platforms are robustly engineered to navigate the harsh realities of space. Noah works across engineering disciplines and is responsible for ensuring mission success throughout the platform’s lifecycle. Gearing up for launch and throughout the mission, Noah owns the design, implementation, and testing of algorithms and hardware that support safe and reliable spacecraft flight and mission operations. Learn more about Noah here: apexspace.com/blog/q-a-with-…

Let's GO. LA needs this. We can fix LA.

Our Factory One cleanroom meets Times Square, courtesy of our friends at the @NYSE. Learn more about our latest fundraise from @SpaceNews_Inc here: spacenews.com/satellite-make…

Great segment with Bloomberg @technology’s @EdLudlow — thanks for having me!

Great to discuss Apex’s big week w/ @IanCinnamon and the paradigm shift around investing in space spurred by $SPCX: “We’re just announcing our $200 million funding round. That is our third back-to-back $200 mil round over the last 14 months and every single one of those rounds we could have raised 4-to-5 times that amount, but have chosen to keep it down. “So I think that really just shows the power of not just what Apex is doing, but the knowledge that the investors and the market are starting to have to the capabilities that area really being unleashed.”

With another $200M fundraise complete, countless customers taking delivery of their buses, and 2 years of on orbit success, I could not be prouder of our team.

When @mxbenassi and I founded Apex 3.5 years ago, we set out to become the industry’s go-to satellite platform company. We couldn’t be prouder of how far we’ve come— but we’re just getting started. Now back to work. cnbc.com/video/2026/06/05/ap…

Today we're announcing another $200M in funding at a $2.3B valuation to continue scaling the foundational layer of next-generation constellations: the satellite platform. For most of space history, progress was measured in firsts: first satellite, first human in space, first Moon landing. Those milestones mattered. But the next era will be measured in rate: how fast countries and companies can deploy new capability, replenish what is lost, refresh technology, and expand the infrastructure they depend on. To make that future real, the world needs constellations: many satellites working together as systems. That requires two industrial capabilities: frequent launch and rapidly manufactured satellite platforms. Apex exists to remove the satellite production bottleneck and unlock capabilities beyond what Earthbound systems alone can achieve. The strategy is simple, but difficult: own the world’s satellite platform category. Learn how this latest raise helps Apex make that a reality: apexspace.com/blog/apex-anno…

Apex is proud to partner with @northropgrumman on the space-based interceptor (SBI) program as part of the @USSpaceForce’s historic drive to make SBIs a reality by the end of the decade. “Apex was founded specifically to support proliferated constellations like Golden Dome, which will require satellites en masse to create a decisive defensive advantage for our nation. This partnership will enable operational, constellation-scale space-based missile defense and allow us to rapidly support an urgent need.” – @IanCinnamon, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Apex. Apex is committed to delivering at the speed and scale required to make Golden Dome a reality. With our productized satellite platforms already in serial production and a proven track record of rapid delivery, Apex stands ready to support this transformational mission and ensure the United States maintains its strategic advantage in space. Learn more here: news.northropgrumman.com/sbi…