Pele Collins

Co-Founder, CTO of Beyond Reach Labs | YC W26

Co-founder

Beyond Reach Labs· Winter 2026 🇺🇸 Brooklyn, New York, United States

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2025Co-founder· Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26)

Role

Co-Founder, CTO

current

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

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Beyond Reach Labs

Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CTO · 2025 – Present
2025
SpaceX
Manager, Parachutes Production and Engineering · Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Technical Team Lead, Plasma Facing Components · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
SpaceX
Senior Structures Engineer · Hawthorne, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021
SpaceX
Structures Engineer II · Hawthorne, California · 2020 – 2021
2020
SpaceX
Structures Engineer · Hawthorne, California · 2018 – 2020
2018
University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Assistant · 2014 – 2018
2014
Tesla
Mechanical Design Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2017
SpaceX
Structures Engineering Intern · Hawthorne, California · 2016
2016
Volvo Car South Africa
Apprentice Service Mechanic · Johannesburg Area, South Africa · 2015
2015
Robohand
Intern · Centurion, South Africa · 2014
2014

Bio

I have been working on some of the hardest technical challenges for almost a decade. I spent 6 years as SpaceX leading the engineering and production teams for the parachutes and between that also worked as the Plasma-Facing-Components Technical team lead at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Now as co-founder of Beyond Reach Labs, we are currently working to enable space megastructures to be deployed from a single rocket launch and to accelerate the design of deployable space systems.