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Anthony Miller is the founder and managing partner of Miller Space Ventures, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage space resources companies. He has led seed and Series A investments in seven asteroid mining startups, two of which have secured NASA contracts for in-situ resource utilization technology development. His portfolio companies have raised over $400 million in combined follow-on funding and include the first private company to complete a deep-space rendezvous maneuver on a commercial budget.
Prior to founding Miller Space Ventures, Anthony served as Vice President of Business Development at Planetary Resources, where he led the company's government contracting division and secured $25 million in NASA and USAF development contracts. He was part of the executive team that successfully patented four proprietary extraction and processing methods, and he led the company's advocacy efforts that contributed to the passage of the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015.
Anthony began his career as a propulsion engineer at SpaceX, where he worked on the Merlin engine development program and contributed to the early design of what became the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Space Resources from the Colorado School of Mines, where his thesis focused on economic modeling of asteroid water extraction for propellant production.
He is a founding board member of the Space Resources Trade Association, a frequent speaker at the International Astronautical Congress and Space Symposium, and a contributing author to *Space News* and *The Space Review*. He lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and two children, and serves on the advisory board of the Colorado School of Mines Space Resources Program. This is his first book.
