Alaska Star Ventures - Alaska Airlines

Investing in the future of flight

Alaska Star Ventures seeks to identify and enable technologies that empower the future of our company and industry for decades to come. Our vision is to connect our guests to the world with a remarkable travel experience rooted in safety, care, and performance. We believe technology that unlocks benefits to efficiency, sustainability, guest experience, and business performance will power that vision.

AHEAD OF THE INDUSTRY CURVE

About

For decades, Alaska has driven innovation and advanced technology to deliver value to our stakeholders and shape the future of our business and industry. In 2021, we established Alaska Star Ventures (ASV) as an LLC to identify and invest in technologies that can be integrated into our operations now or in the future to help us reach our goals. We are at a point of unprecedented innovation in our industry. It’s important for us to use technology to drive efficiency and performance now, and to know what’s on the horizon. As Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines recently combined, Hawaiian Airlines investments have now joined our portfolio.

SHAPING THE EVOLUTION OF AIR TRAVEL

Our investment philosophy

We invest selectively, seeking out strong, pragmatic, and visionary leadership teams developing technologies that can help us deliver on our business goals for efficiency, sustainability, performance and guest experience.

We prioritize partners who want to share knowledge and can provide a clear path to implementation within our operating environment.

The objectives that guide are investments are to:

Boost our radar for trends and technologies that will impact our industry.
Identify technologies we can use in our business to improve guest experience, enhance performance or help us decarbonize.
Pair small investments with deeper partnerships to inform tech development and support shared success.
Create multiple paths to success, as a user and an investor.

WE INVEST IN STARTUPS MAKING ADVANCEMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

Operational efficiency

Aircraft and propulsion technology

Improved business performance

Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Emission reduction or removals

Strategic insights

Portfolio

Articles

We are always looking for new opportunities to invest in aviation efficiency & sustainability. If you have a technology or product that you believe would help us reach our ambitious goals or build business resilience, we want to hear from you.