Ex-public servant Peter Crabtree to lead board of space tech startup Zenno

Ex-public servant Peter Crabtree to lead board of space tech startup Zenno
Peter Crabtree is heading up the board of Zenno, which just raised $10.5m. (Image: Getty )
Ben Moore
The former head of New Zealand’s space agency, Peter Crabtree, is now the chair of Auckland space tech startup, Zenno Astronautics. Founded in 2017, Zenno recently raised $10.5 million in a seed funding round to help the company take its technology into orbit to show it works.Crabtree told BusinessDesk he was excited to join the company and work with founder and chief executive Max Arshavsky, whom he met when Zenno was still in its earliest stages.“My first observation is just how far they’ve come along in such a short pe...

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