Barbara Belvisi is the Founder & CEO of Interstellar Lab, a company building the future of plant production on Earth and beyond. With a lifelong fascination for nature and space, she is pioneering systems that sustain life — from autonomous bio-greenhouses for the cosmetics and food industries to plant production modules designed for lunar and Martian environments.

Barbara began her career as an investor, founding her first asset management firm at 27 to back deep-tech ventures. At 29, she co-founded Hardware Club, a global VC platform investing in hardware and robotics startups from San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo. She also helped launch Hello Tomorrow, today one of Europe’s most important deep-tech gatherings.

Driven by curiosity and purpose, Barbara transitioned from investing to building. She spent a year working with NASA engineers on controlled-environment agriculture before founding Interstellar Lab in 2018. The company is now a leader in AI-powered biomanufacturing systems, winning the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge (2022–24) and announcing Mission Little Prince, a partnership with the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Foundation to grow roses on the Moon and Mars.

On Earth, Interstellar Lab’s bioproduction technology enables clean, traceable, sustainable plant-based ingredient manufacturing for cosmetics and food. In space, the company is advancing plant science and food system capabilities for commercial space stations and future planetary bases.

Barbara has been recognized among Top 10 Women in Tech in France, Top 100 Forbes, Best Innovator (2022–23), and Choiseul 100 (2023–25).

Within United Founders, Barbara represents frontier imagination paired with execution — a true European-born builder shaping humanity’s expansion from our planet to the stars.