RISHIKESH RANJAN
PRODUCT & GROWTH LEAD FOR AMBITIOUS MISSIONS
SPACE / CURRENT MISSION
I started in space.I’m finding my way back.
I spent the last several years building and growing startups from bootstrap through Series A — across product, growth, distribution and AI-native operating systems. I’m exploring where those skills can be useful in the space ecosystem.
VECTOR / REENTRYSTATUS / EXPLORING
CAPABILITIES
What I bring
01 / PRODUCT
Turning difficult technical ideas into products people can understand and use.
02 / GROWTH
Distribution, adoption, experimentation, community and GTM.
03 / AI + SYSTEMS
Building internal systems that dramatically increase execution capacity.
04 / 0→1 OPERATING
Working inside ambiguity where roles are messy and someone simply has to figure things out.
ORIGIN / SPACEONOVA
Where this started
Spaceonova was a space-education platform. I joined as its first marketing hire in 2020, became CMO, and continued advising the company through 2025. Along the way, I built and led a 20-person team, onboarded 40,000+ students, and built clubs across 25 cities and 100+ schools and colleges.
- 01
- FIRST MARKETING HIRE → CMO
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- 40,000+ STUDENTS
- 03
- 20-PERSON TEAM
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- 25 CITIES / 100+ SCHOOLS & COLLEGES
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Back to space, with a different toolkit.
Mission Atlas
A sourced, explorable directory of humanity’s missions beyond Earth orbit, with mission data, trajectories and provenance.
Open Mission AtlasMilky Way Model
An experiment in mapping known stars in 3D and exploring how astronomical positions evolve through time.
OPEN CHANNEL
Building something difficult in space?
If product, adoption, growth, GTM or AI-native execution is one of the problems you’re thinking about, I’d like to talk.