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Our Principal @StefanSandoval_ is judging the FutureTravel Summit pitch competition in Barcelona on Oct 29. Ten travel and hospitality startups pitch on the main stage for €150K in partner credits, in front of 500 founders, investors, and travel tech leaders.
That’s a wrap on @airlinesblog! @amydanielsburr and @jennifercrusca spent the week on stage talking about what makes airline innovation stick, and cheered on our portfolio companies @Assaia, @i6 Group, @Lumo, and @Volantio along the way.
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Joby has been named to TIME’s list of the Best Inventions of 2026. 🏆
TIME evaluates each contender on originality, efficacy, ambition and impact.
For our team, that recognition reflects more than fifteen years of engineering, manufacturing and certification work that has put Joby at the forefront of eVTOL technology, with a growing record of quiet, vertical flights in cities around the world.
Thank you to our team, our partners and @TIME.
Read more: time.com/collection/best-inv…
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue. We spoke to him about Duo: Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone. Plus: his company’s approach to geopolitical tensions and supply chains, child safety, and AI time.com/collection/best-inv…
We're headed to Lisbon for World Aviation Festival (@airlinesblog)!
@jennifercrusca will speak at the Innovation Summit and on the Built From Scratch panel.
@amydanielsburr joins the investor panel on the Airline Keynote Stage.
Come find us next week & say hi!
Airports are rebuilding two things at once: the layer passengers see, built around identity, and the layer they don't, built around computer vision. @StefanSandoval_ set the stage on what that means for the airport experience by 2040 at @FutureTravelX in Dallas.
Latin American Heritage Month started yesterday! Latinos are 19% of the US population and just 1.6% of investment professionals at VC funds above $100M AUM. This month we're spotlighting two teammates breaking the mold, @StefanSandoval_ & @jennifercrusca.
@StefanSandoval_ is from Medellín, Colombia, and has been on our investing team for three years, going back to the JetBlue Ventures days. He mentors through @VCForward, which named him one of 11 Hispanic investors to watch, and is involved with @FamiliaVc and @SomosVC_.
@jennifercrusca joined our operations team four years ago after 25 years in the airline industry. Her parents are from São Paulo, and she holds dual US and Brazilian citizenship. She mentors with @LatinasinTech, supporting the next generation of women in tech.
Happy #NationalAviationDay! Five of our aviation-focused portcos had a busy two weeks:
@i6Group is digitizing refueling for @easyJet
@volantio with @airindia
@AssaiaApronAI selected by @BreezeAirways
ClearJet raised $25M
Aether Fuels added to its board
Our Investment Principal @StefanSandoval_ takes the stage at @FutureTravelX Global on Sept 9, opening with a scene-setter on the tech reshaping air transport, then moderating the 2040 customer-journey panel with American Airlines, Heathrow, Abra Group, Vantage Group, and NCTCOG.
Congrats to our portfolio companies @volantio, @beacon_a_i, @tomorrowio_, and @AssaiaApronAI on being recognized by @LHInnovationHub as some of the most promising tech players leveraging AI for airline operations.
We're proud to back the best of the best!
ICYMI: we send a travel and transportation tech newsletter every other week. This week: Latin America's first airline venture arm, a $190M portfolio round, and a vertical AI startup out of stealth in 7 months. Subscribe ➡️ skyvc.beehiiv.com/
A general-purpose model can't read an airline's operational data. That's the moat, and it's why we're bullish on vertical AI.
Watch our CEO @amydanielsburr's full take on @nvca's recent webinar:
Judging is underway for the 2026 @Skift IDEA Awards. Our CEO @amydanielsburr is one of 26 judges reviewing this year's entries, alongside leaders from Hilton, Marriott, Accor and Google.
Finalists announced August 7. Stay tuned for more!
Over half of our portfolio companies have earned revenue from an introduction we made. Since 2016: 200+ BD intros and $ 900M+ in follow-on funding raised.
Read on about how we support our portcos: sky-vc.com/blog/how-we-show-…
Our President Arielle Ring recently joined @100WomenFinance and Natixis CIB to map where capital is heading as the energy transition accelerates, with priorities shifting beyond traditional ESG.
Aircraft maintenance is a $130B+ market still running on legacy systems and manual workflows. Our MD @S_RSnyder writes about where AI is actually taking hold in MRO: sky-vc.com/blog/where-ai-is-…
A great afternoon at @AFA_conf in Miami. Our CEO, Amy Burr, took the keynote stage with @mitrasorrells to talk about the future of travel and transportation investing, and what it takes to back the founders building it.
Our CEO, Amy Burr, sat down with Ishka SAVi recently to walk through how our team has historically approached aviation sustainability investing, a category that remains structurally tough.
Capital cycles are long, regulatory frameworks are still maturing, and scaling new fuels and propulsion technologies into the existing industrial base is a multi-decade project. Read her full thoughts:
ishkaglobal.com/Savi/Article…
