Chairman and Managing Director, Carvalho Capital
Jason Carvalho is the Chairman and Managing Director of Carvalho Capital Ltd, a thesis-driven family office investing pre-seed capital into North America’s most ambitious SpaceTech startups. His portfolio includes companies such as Mission Control, Wyvern, and Helicity Space—each building foundational infrastructure across propulsion, autonomy, orbital logistics, and national resilience.
He is also the founding partner of HUMANUS.VC, an emerging venture platform dedicated to frontier technologies at the intersection of space, defense, and energy. HUMANUS.VC partners with technically rigorous founders solving generational problems through systems engineering and long-term execution.
Jason brings a systems-first mindset shaped by his experience as a founder, investor, and operator. For the past three years, he has served as a mentor in the Creative Destruction Lab’s Space Stream, advising early-stage companies working on commercial applications of breakthrough aerospace technologies.
A member of Space Canada, Jason also co-hosts Specific Impulse.fm, a podcast exploring the evolving space economy, which he produces with Jeff Thornburg, former senior executive at SpaceX.
Recognized for his entrepreneurial leadership, Jason was named a Top 40 Under 40 awardee. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and WIRED, reflecting his thought leadership across innovation, capital formation, and space infrastructure.