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Bridgit Mendler

Co-founder & CEO, Northwood Space

Search every verified Bridgit Mendler interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bridgit Mendler, co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, appeared on a November 3, 2026, episode of the financial and technology program TVN to discuss her company's recent activities and strategy. She stated that Northwood Space completed a $375 million Series C fundraise and is focused on validating its two products, Portal, a command-and-control product, and Prism, a high-throughput product, across orbits from LEO to geostationary. Mendler said the company is prioritizing demonstrating capability on a timeline that meets customer needs, including for communications and national security applications. Mendler also addressed supply chain considerations, saying that she does not believe there is a single hard tech company unaffected by supply chain issues. She said the new capital will help Northwood Space make decisions about scaling production, including deepening relationships with vendors the company has worked with since its early days. She noted that third-party ground infrastructure has historically struggled to offer high levels of uptime, and that pushing toward higher throughputs is an exciting problem as the overall volume of data in space grows.

Recent appearances

  • $AAPL + $PLTR, GDPx, Value of a Search, Grok Bot Breaks the Bank

    November 03, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:02:14 $AAPL + $PLTR Earnings 00:05:28 Value of a Search 00:13:08 Grok Bot Breaks the Bank 00:16:55 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:25:37 Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s president, discusses the company’s strong Q3 results, major brand migrations, and the growing role of AI-powered commerce. He explains how shopping agents can improve product discovery and purchasing while urging merchants to provide detailed product information ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 00:40:41 Bridgit Mendler is the co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, an aerospace startup building next-generation ground stations an…

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  • Mendler's Northwood Reaches $2 Billion Valuation

    November 02, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Aerospace startup Northwood raises $375 million at a $2 billion valuation to expand its production and deployment of the ground infrastructure needed by the space industry. CEO Bridgit Mendler speaks with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." She joins from Northwood's new 185,000-square-foot factory. -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Tech on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Tech" with Ed Ludlow here:    • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Full Episodes     Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and around the world here: http…

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  • Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson Debate

    September 04, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00;05;26 Astra Reactions 00;26;20 Jobs Report 00;45;57 The Dyson Debate 00;55;54 Cybercab Roll Out 01;02;37 Hunter Somerville discusses his role as co-head of venture and growth equity at StepStone Group, where he invests across funds, direct deals, and secondary transactions. He examines the difficult fundraising environment for emerging managers, inflated valuations and SPV fees, cap-table management, liquidity challenges, and opportunities in AI, deep tech, hard tech, energy, defense, and biotech. 01;36;11 Bar Winkler discusses Wonderful, the applied AI company he co-founded and leads…

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  • Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory

    August 31, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder & CEO of Northwood Space, gives Sourcery a first look inside the company’s new 185,000 sqft headquarters and factory in Torrance, California. Northwood has raised over $136M since 2022, including a $100M Series B in January 2026 led by Washington Harbour Partners and co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Alpine Space Ventures, Balerion and Fulcrum participating. The company also signed a $49.8M contract with the US Space Force to support the Satellite Control Network. The new facility will more than 5x Northwood’s manufacturing footprint…

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  • The Global Ground Layer, with Bridgit Mendler (CEO of Northwood)

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 Arkaea Media Group

    Bridgit Mendler took an unconventional path to founding a space infrastructure company, but it led her to one of the industry’s most overlooked bottlenecks: the ground systems connecting satellites to Earth. Now, she’s building Northwood to modernize that critical layer of the space economy, the part that doesn’t get the headlines but matters as much as anything happening above it. Northwood recently announced its new Prism product, and we get into the business model, the competitive landscape, the government bet, and one of the most critical questions: if Starlink and Kuiper have already bu…

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  • Artemis II Proved That Space Innovation Is Possible In Mainstream, Says Bridgit Mendler

    May 05, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Bridgit Mendler, Northwood founder and CEO, said that her company is aimed at creating communications networking infrastructure for the whole space industry, so that companies aiming to get to space can spend less time and money on communications and more time on innovation. Mendler said that the world is opening up its excitement around space innovation and that the Artemis NASA mission proved that similar missions can be possible on a mainstream level. -------- Watch Bloomberg Radio LIVE on YouTube Weekdays 7am-6pm ET Saturday & Sunday 7am-10am ET WATCH HERE: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF Follow…

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  • Inside The $100M Bet on the Future of Space | Northwood CEO on a16z

    March 23, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructure. Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites back to Earth, enabling faster, more scalable space missions. They cover Bridgit’s unconventional path to founding a space company, why vertical integration matters in hard tech, and how modern ground networks could unlock the next wave of innovation in the space economy, from national security to new commercial applications. Timestamps: 0:00—Introduction 6:10—The Ground Segme…

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  • Bridgit Mendler on Quitting Hollywood—and Starting a $100M Space Company

    March 21, 2026 · 📺 The Free Press

    Before she built a $100M+ space infrastructure company, Bridgit Mendler was a Disney Channel star and pop artist with millions of listeners. Then she walked away—and started over. In this conversation, Mendler shares how she went from Hollywood to MIT to Harvard Law, and ultimately to founding Northwood Space—one of the most ambitious companies building the future of global communications. We talk about her unlikely path, what it takes to reinvent yourself, and why “seeking the truth” has been the throughline of her career.

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  • 🦞 Moltbot / Clawdbot Creator Peter Steinberger, Palmer Luckey, and more

    January 27, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com 04:37 START 08:14 Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot 50:32 Meta Announces $6B Corning Deal 53:22 Meta To Test Premium Subscription Plans 01:01:06 Ramp's New Super Bowl Ad 01:03:57 Timeline Reactions 01:19:07 Jamie Cuffe, founder and CEO of Pace, discusses Pace’s $10M Series A led by Sequoia and how AI agents automate back-office insurance workflows. 01:33:34 Ben Lerer, co-founder of Lerer Hippeau and founder of Thrillist, reflects on building media companies, scaling challenges, and staying focused on passion-driven ventures. 02:03:35 Lucas Atkins, CT…

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  • Bridgit Mendler’s Northwood Raises $100M Series B

    January 27, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Northwood, the maker of ground infrastructure for the space industry, has closed a $100 million Series B, led by Washington Harbour Partners. Bridgit Mendler, CEO and co-founder of Northwood, discusses the demand driving this funding round. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:    • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Full Episodes     Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley an…

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  • Interview | Bridgit Mendler

    October 27, 2025 · 📺 Lumafield

    In this episode of Go/No-Go, Jon Bruner visits Northwood Space in Los Angeles to talk with Bridgit Mendler and Griffin Cleverly about how they’re rethinking satellite connectivity. Northwood is designing and manufacturing phased-array ground stations that make communicating with satellites faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. Jon and Alex also break down the week’s manufacturing and product quality news — from cyberattacks on automakers to lead contamination in protein powder — and close with a Reconstruction of the 1986 Challenger disaster, unpacking the engineering and decision-making that…

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  • LIVE: Panel with APEX, Northwood Space, and Varda Space

    October 16, 2025 · 📺 Foundation for American Innovation

    FAI's Joshua Levine interviews representatives from APEX, Northwood, and Varda on the future of space tech.

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