About Instinct
Instinct is making the Moon the new LEO. Our small lunar lander is designed to be launched as a regular LEO rideshare, enabling higher mission cadence at a lower cost.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Ashwin Iyer
Building rideshare compatible lunar landers. Ashwin is the co-founder and co-CEO of Instinct. He studied mechanical engineering at QMUL in London and holds a Master in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and Management from the University of Cambridge. Ashwin has also worked at Imperial College London, researching Rolls Royce jet engines as well as undertaken consulting projects as part of a team at Cambridge across a variety of industries including Venture capital, Metalworking and Electronics.
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Alex Pinel Neparidze
Graduate in Space Engineering at UCL and Aerospace Engineering at QMUL. Previously worked at Open Cosmos on the PHISAT-2 and HAMMER Earth observation satellites. Published research on ML for detecting Coronal Mass Ejections.
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Joaquim Dickson
Studied Physics at Imperial College London and Space Technology at UCL. Worked on the magnetometer for NASA's IMAP spacecraft and on the Solar Wind Analyser aboard ESA's Solar Orbiter.
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