Company

Our Mission

To make Earth radically more accessible by turning space into a global logistics network.

Just as the advent of aircraft transformed the sky into a medium for transportation, Inversion is pioneering a new domain by turning space into a global logistics network. History shows that those who embrace step-changes in transportation – sea, rail, air – set the rules and prosper.

Today, the same opportunity exists in space, and Inversion is determined to ensure the U.S. maintains its lead, just as it did with aviation a century ago.

By utilizing Low-Earth Orbit as an on-demand logistics network, we expand global responsiveness, strengthen deterrence, and lay the foundation for a new era of security and prosperity enabled by space.

Locations

1. Los Angeles Headquarters

• Size: 55000 sqft.
• Focus: Design, Manufacturing, Assembly
  • Fully Operational Machine Shop
  • Cleanroom Integration Facility
  • Parachute Manufacturing

2. Mojave Test Site

• Size: 5 acres

• Focus: Rapid Testing and Iteration

  • Rocket Engine Testing
  • Parachute Deployment Testing
  • High Pressure Fluid System Development

• Fully Off-Grid, Automated Operations

Founding Story

The year was 2021. Rocket launches were becoming increasingly routine. As aerospace engineers at SpaceX and ABL, roommates Justin Fiaschetti and Austin Briggs witnessed this firsthand. Rockets were carrying more mass to orbit at lower costs – but almost nothing was coming back down. They asked: what if orbit wasn’t just a destination, but a platform? One that could span the planet and enable transportation across Earth at unprecedented speed and scale. The idea was too powerful to ignore. They left their jobs and turned their garage into the headquarters of Inversion.

Over the next four years, they went through Y Combinator, raised $44 million, secured a $71 million Space Force contract, and built a spacecraft that successfully went to orbit. Today, Inversion is a 60-person team with a 55,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles and a dedicated test site in the Mojave Desert.

Our Leadership

A team focused on talent density. Extreme ownership throughout the company.

Team Members

• Justin Fiaschetti
  CEO
  Before co-founding Inversion, Justin was a former propulsion engineer on Raptor at SpaceX and on Aeon at Relativity Space.

• Austin Briggs
  CTO
  Before co-founding Inversion, Austin was an early employee at ABL Space Systems and the Responsible Engineer for the upper stage TCA.

• Jackson Kemper, III
  EVP, Business Development
  Jackson is a proven business development leader in the aerospace and defense industry. He brings decades of experience to Inversion and was most recently at Stratolaunch serving as their Chief Revenue Officer.

• Collin Corey
  Vice President of Missions
  Virgin Orbit’s former Director of Safety, Mission Assurance, and Launch Licensing, Collin holds 18 orbital rocket launch licenses and multi-national launch licenses.

• Bryan Munro
  Director of Engineering - Reentry
  Bryan brings deep technical and leadership experience to Inversion. He was previously Principal Flight Dynamics Engineer at Stratolaunch where he played a key role in designing Talon-A, an autonomous hypersonic testbed.

• Patrick Handley
  Chief Engineer, Arc
  Patrick brings deep GN&C and space-systems expertise to Inversion. He has held engineering roles at Starfish Space, Ball Aerospace, and Draper, applying advanced guidance, navigation, and control to flight-critical missions.

• Taishi Kato
  Director of Engineering, Avionics
  Taishi was previously Avionics Director at ABL Space Systems and held engineering roles at Northrop Grumman, with a focus on embedded systems, firmware, and avionics architecture.

• Eduardo Mucino
  Director of Engineering, Simulation
  Eduardo Mucino brings over a decade of experience in spacecraft dynamics, control systems, and flight operations to Inversion. He has delivered engineering solutions across the space industry and through his own consulting work on complex aerospace and defense programs.

• Brendan Mitchell
  Director of Mechanical Engineering, Reentry
  Brendan leads mechanical engineering at Inversion, overseeing structures, mechanisms, and thermal protection systems for the company’s reentry vehicles. He previously worked at SpaceX on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy separation systems, secondary structures, and human spaceflight certification, with hardware flying since 2016.

• Gerald Gutierrez
  Sr. Director of Business Development
  Gerald brings extensive business development experience to Inversion – spending over six years at Boeing before taking on leadership roles at Stratolaunch and Virgin Orbit, where he helped build partnerships and drive growth in next-generation aerospace programs.

• Alec Zielke
  Director of Talent
  Alec has recruited for many teams in the aerospace and defense space including scaling Archer and Sierra Nevada. Alec is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

• Marty Berman
  Director of Marketing & Communications
  Marty most recently comes from Hermeus, where he led marketing and content efforts for the company. Prior to that, he worked in-house at SpaceX and Discovery Channel.

Company Tenets

1. Creative

   Relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas

2. Passionate

   Showing or caused by strong feelings or a strong belief

3. Unrelenting

   Not yielding in strength, severity, or determination

Investors

• Y Combinator
• Adjacent
• Spark Capital
• Lockheed
• Kindred