"Former Disney Star Bridgit Mendler Launches Satellite Data Startup with Major VC Support"

Former Disney star Bridgit Mendler, now CEO of startup Northwood Space, is launching a satellite data venture focused on mass producing ground stations to improve the transfer of data to and from space. Backed by major VCs including Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, the company aims to provide fast and flexible deployment of ground stations, targeting services for satellites in low Earth orbit initially. The startup plans to address the bottleneck in shared ground stations and offer a similar experience to renting server capacity from cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft's Azure.