Bridgit Mendler ✓
@bridgitmendler · Los Angeles, CA · joined 03 May 2009
CEO, Co-founder @northwoodspace
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Making galactic scale ambitions a reality is notoriously hard. Hence the famous, "the best way to become a millionaire in the space industry is to start as a billionaire" quote. But I find the strategic sequencing one of the most fun challenges.
When you have a big vision for
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“There's enthusiasm around compute use cases & IoT & other future industries moving to space. But the reality is—that's not space today.”
@bridgitmendler says SpaceX’s IPO has created a ton of momentum & new ideas in the space industry, but companies like @NorthwoodSpace still h
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Why does networking for space matter? How you send data between earth and space determines the use cases you can unlock, the market you can capture, and how you maximize your return on investment.
We want to see more space missions introduced and become viable on economic
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.@NorthwoodSpace recently announced Prism, a new satellite ground antenna to significantly increase its ground station network capacity.
@bridgitmendler: "Today, what that looks like is addressing the use cases of today. That's something we fundamentally believe in — let's start
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.@bridgitmendler on the founding thesis of @NorthwoodSpace.
"We really were recognizing the same problem, that networking for the space economy is really what drives its value. And there's a significant bottleneck, and that bottleneck actually is not in space. It's actually on h
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@bridgitmendler Idk what this means but I’m so proud of literally everything you’ve accomplished
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@bridgitmendler This girl too smart to be worrying about mf music oml 😩 couldn’t even finish reading allat im proud of you tho ig sis
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@bridgitmendler enough bridgit. we all know this is your time machine
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It’s exciting to finally announce what Northwood has been working on behind the scenes – the newest addition to our network, Prism, which will support high throughput comms through space.
When we first founded Northwood, the pressing problem in front of us was the sheer volume h
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Today we're expanding our network to support the things spacecraft actually need to do now: high-volume enterprise backhaul, direct-to-cellular communications, compute in space.
https://t.co/qVd7iuN11j https://t.co/CFSpZ4ZabP
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thank you for your support it really means so much <3 i'm sorry we had to take the music down, we'll find a way to do it the right way
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@bridgitmendler @WashingHarbour @a16z Definitely the Disney Chanel exit GOAT
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@WashingHarbour @a16z If you want to be a part of building one of the most important pieces of infrastructure for unlocking the full potential of space, check out our careers page!
https://t.co/RhJvxeUEHK
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@WashingHarbour @a16z See more in depth coverage here https://t.co/BAcOSx8rtm
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@WashingHarbour @a16z With $100M of new capital less than a year after our $30M Series A, we are ready to build.
By the end of 2026, Northwood is targeting the deployment of over 82 beams ready for operations across 18 global ground sites.
Simultaneously we will continue to pus
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@WashingHarbour @a16z We've done a lot of work this year towards this end –
designed, built, and deployed ground links capable of connecting with multiple satellites simultaneously across three orbits (LEO, MEO, GEO) through our Portal product.
* designed: highest power commerc
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@WashingHarbour @a16z The issue is that ground is a really hard multidisciplinary problem, and no one has been accountable to fix it.
Northwood is taking this problem on in support of realizing the most boundary-pushing space missions. We address the ground problem end-to-end fr
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@WashingHarbour @a16z Our appetite for space has never been stronger.
Across government and commercial sectors, space investment is accelerating rapidly.
But while there are many concepts to push the boundaries of space, we are not moving fast enough from concept to fully realiz
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Today Northwood has raised $100M in Series B funding led by @WashingHarbour and co-led by @a16z to support a simple objective – take space missions further faster.
This financing follows millions in signed contracts including a $49.8 million contract with the Space Force to htt
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Against accounts of the same size
2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views109 194this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.62%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.48%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 109 194 | 14 648 | 7.45× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.62% | 0.74% | 4.89× |
| Engagement rate | 0.48% | 0.70% | 0.69× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
19.6K27 Jan
5.5K
2.5M11 Jun
176K22 Jun
214.8K
1.5K
1.7K
85823 Jun
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82.4K26 Jun
129.2K
80.8K
115.9K31 Aug
102.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.79%27 Jan
1.22%
4.99%11 Jun
0.04%22 Jun
1.01%
1.82%
4.71%
1.86%23 Jun
0.18%24 Jun
0.18%26 Jun
1.93%
1.89%
0.16%31 Aug
0.81%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes90.6%131 399 in total
Reposts4.1%5 939 in total
Replies1.2%1 682 in total
Quotes1.2%1 728 in total
Bookmarks2.9%4 253 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 20 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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