This Week in Startups · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Paige Doughty of Behind Genius Ventures highlighted the firm's focus on 'Deep Tech' and 'Space Tech,' referencing their investment in Star Cloud, which recently achieved a $2.3 billion valuation. Doughty previously worked on Pixar's Wall-E, bringing a unique perspective to the 'atoms over bits' investment thesis.
“All things Deep Tech. Uh, we, uh, recently had a very lovely, uh, markup in a company called Star Cloud, Orbital data centers. So I was very, very lucky to come in and, uh, co-lead that seed, uh, in the earlier days. And then they, they just got a beautiful new round, uh, markup at 2.3 billion.”
“My joke is that now everyone's rushing to Space Tech, but, uh, the reason I'm qualified is because I worked at Pixar once upon a time on the film Wall-E, uh, for many, many years. So obviously, that would make you overqualified.”