2x founder

Jacob Portukalian

Co-Founder, Cascade Space | YC X25

Co-founder

Cascade Space· Spring 2025 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @jportukalian

2025Co-founder· Cascade Space

Founder · since 2015

Company

Cascade Space

Role

Co-Founder / CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Mateo, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Cascade Space

Commercial alternative to the Deep Space Network

Spring 2025

Experience

Career

Cascade Space
Co-founder
Co-Founder / CEO · San Mateo, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Zoox
Staff Engineer · Foster City, California, United States · 2020 – 2025
2020
Astra
Radio Systems Manager · Alameda, California, United States · 2018 – 2020
2018
Zoox
Software Contractor · 2017 – 2018
2017
Form Lifting Inc
Co-founder
Co-Founder · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2015 – 2017
2015
Tyvak, a Terran Orbital Company
Lead RF Engineer · 2015 – 2017
2015
Sky Wave Design, LLC
Business Owner · 2014 – 2015
2014
SpaceX
Lead RF Engineer · Hawthorne, California, United States · 2011 – 2014
2011
Topanga Technologies
Lead RF Engineer · Canoga Park, CA · 2010 – 2011
2010

Bio

Cascade was founded by Jacob Portukalian, architect of comms systems at SpaceX, Tyvak, and Astra. He has assembled a team of elite space engineers to scale communications infrastructure for the next generation of space exploration companies.