Bridgit Mendler, as a Disney girl in 'Good luck, Charlie!' CEO of a space company

Bridgit Mendler is 31 years old and has not wanted to be just a Disney Channel girl for a long time.

Her professional life has taken a 360-degree turn, and she has taken advantage of her enormous popularity to publicize the space company in which she is now CEO, Northwood Space.

The former singer and actress, who became famous for starring in the television series

, the musical film

or collaborating for other legendary fictions on the channel such as

, he has spent the last few years studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School.

She now has her own satellite company: “The vision is a data highway between Earth and space,” she stated for the American television channel CNBC.

The company has received an investment of almost six million euros, as Mendler has published on her social networks: “We are designing shared terrestrial infrastructure from the first steps to expand access to space.

We have a lot of work ahead of us, but that's the fun part.”

Instead of building rockets or satellites, Northwood Space, which has its offices in the city of El Segundo, California, aims to mass produce ground stations, which, in reality, are huge antennas that connect to satellites located in the earth's orbit.

“Space is getting easier in many different dimensions, but the actual exercise of sending data to and from space remains difficult.

He has difficulty finding an access point to contact his satellite,” Mendler admitted on the television channel.

A message with which he intends to show that his company exists, precisely, to improve these space-Earth connections.

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The former actress has launched herself into the world of telecommunications with the help of two co-founders: her husband, who serves as technology director, Griffin Cleverly, and software director

Luthra.

The name of the company comes from a lake in New Hampshire, where the now businesswoman spent the confinement due to the pandemic, and where she says the idea originated: “While everyone else was preparing their sourdoughs, we were building antennas with random garbage that We could find it at Home Depot... and we received data from the satellites [of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration],” he reveals in his interview with the CNMC.

“Northwood Space is expanding access to space by rethinking shared infrastructure for satellite returns,” is the first message that appears on the company's official website.

In addition, it tries to attract high-profile investors and highly qualified professionals.

The company has around 5.5 million euros of investment, and at the top of the list of investors are entities such as Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Also Capital.

The

will have its first contact with space at the end of this year, as published on the official website.

Bridgit Mendler (right) with Bradley Steven Perry, Eric Allan Kramer, Mia Talerico and Leigh-Allyn Baker, in a still from the third season of 'Good luck, Charlie!'.Bruce Birmelin (©Disney Channel/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection /Cordon Press)

The versatile former artist also wanted to capture on her networks the turnaround that her personal life has taken, by sharing that she is the mother of a four-year-old son.

“The other news she wanted to share is that I am a mom to a sweet 4-year-old boy.

I started fostering in 2021 and adopted him around Christmas 2022. I'm so lucky: motherhood is the greatest gift and most defining experience there is.

“That's my news for now, friends,” she confirmed this Monday on her X (formerly her Twitter), where she has accumulated four million followers.

Expect the unexpected!

So excited to announce our $6.3M seed led by @foundersfund and @a16z with participation from @CapitalAlso, @LongJourneyVC, @BoxGroup, @humbavc

At @NorthwoodSpace we have our sights on building a data highway between earth and space.

We are designing… https://t.co/JwtEuTOTJI

— Bridgit Mendler (@bridgitmendler) February 19, 2024

The former singer and actress's publications have quickly gone viral on X, where she has received messages of encouragement and congratulations from her followers.

“Damn, what a career path you have there!

soundtrack

was pretty catchy.

Obviously, you have unlimited talent.

Good luck on this next adventure! ”An Internet user responds to one of her messages.

Others wonder if Mendler will return to the stage: “Wow!

We sit down and wait for new news about your music soon,” to which the artist jokingly responded: “Have you ever heard of satellite radio?”