"Former Disney Star Bridgit Mendler Launches Space Data Startup as CEO and Mom"

Former Disney Channel star Bridgit Mendler has transitioned from acting to becoming the CEO of a new space start-up company called Northwood Space, which recently secured $6.3 million in seed funding. The company aims to build a data highway between Earth and space by designing ground infrastructure to expand access to space. Co-founded with her husband and a software head, the company plans to make data transmission to and from satellites more efficient and accessible, with the goal of conducting their first test to a spacecraft in orbit later this year.