Taylor Durand

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Taylor is an Investor on the Craft investment team. He focuses on investing in frontier tech and software companies, with a passion for all things physical AI. Taylor has also helped support a number of Craft portfolio companies with financial planning and fundraising including Xona, Replit, and Upwind.

Prior to joining Craft, Taylor was an investor on Blackstone’s growth equity team where he worked on minority and majority investments in B2B software and consumer tech, with a focus on infrastructure software. Before Blackstone, Taylor worked at Goldman Sachs on the TMT investment banking team and at Luxor, an early stage crypto startup. He graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario.

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Why We Invested in Xona Space Systems

Today we’re thrilled to announce Craft’s investment in Xona Space Systems’ Series B, which brings their total funding to $150M.

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