A lot of the time the path looks like this: 1. Initial VC funding for your cool idea to carry you to something (analysis, initial demo) you can feasibly sell t

A lot of the time the path looks like this: 1. Initial VC funding for your cool idea to carry you to something (analysis, initial demo) you can feasibly sell to get to a more formal demonstration 2. Science and Technology government org funding for a demonstration (DARPA, SBIRS, SpaceWerx, NASA ventures, FFRDC lab, etc.) 3. Large government funding (NASA, Space Force, etc.) for full product delivery or buying enough data to keep funding further build-out