Meagan Crawford
Co-Founder | Eden Gardens
Founder – Managing Partner | SpaceFund Host | Mission Eve Podcast
Meagan is a NewSpace industry pioneer with a focus on the business of space: finance, investing,
management, entrepreneurship, communications, marketing, and team building. A strong believer in
the power of free enterprise as the driving force that will lift humanity permanently off-world,
Meagan is dedicated to several projects focused on building a sustainable, profitable, successful
space industry – for everyone.
Meagan is a co-founder and managing partner of SpaceFund, a venture capital firm investing
exclusively in the space startup ecosystem. She also sits on the board of directors of over a dozen
organizations, including both space companies and nonprofits.
Meagan is a leading voice in the entrepreneurial space industry and an experienced startup
executive and founder, with multiple exits under her belt. She is the host of the Mission Eve
podcast that aims to increase the number of women in the space industry and is frequently featured
as a thought leader on the industry’s development and investment potential.
In 2009, Meagan co-founded the NewSpace Business Plan Competition, a program focused on educating
both entrepreneurs and investors and catalyzing deal flow and is the world’s longest-running space-
focused business plan competition. As a manager, coach, and judge for the last decade, she has read
over 1,000 space business executive summaries, coached hundreds of selected teams, and helped award
cash prizes to dozens of NewSpace startups.
She holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Rice University, as well as a BBA in
Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain Logistics from the University of Houston, Downtown. She is
a mother to two
adult humans, three dogs, and two cats, and has homes in Houston and Las Vegas.
