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Sky Dayton

Venture partner at Craft Ventures and director of Xona Space Systems

DirectorRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 3, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 23, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Sky Dayton

Sky Dayton is a venture partner at Craft Ventures and a director of Xona Space Systems. He also serves on the boards of Artsy, Age of Learning, Diffbot, City Storage Systems and Loft Dynamics, as well as Stanford's Parents' Advisory Board.

He founded EarthLink in 1994 and Boingo Wireless in 2001. He previously served on Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership board.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Sky Dayton in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Xona Space Systems Inc. Current
Director
2025 – Present · Burlingame, CA
A low-Earth-orbit satellite service for precise, resilient positioning, navigation and timing.
Art.sy, Inc. Current
Director
2014 – Present · New York, NY
Craft Ventures Current
Venture partner
Age of Learning Current
Board member
Diffbot Current
Board member
City Storage Systems Current
Board member
Loft Dynamics Current
Board member
Stanford University Parents' Advisory Board Current
Board member
Boingo Wireless
Founder
From 2001
EarthLink
Founder
From 1994
Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School
Board member

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Sky Dayton works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Xona Space Systems Inc. · Form D, Oct 23, 2026
BM
Brian Manning
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, director
AP
Adrien Perkins
Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Engineering, director
Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johnson
Director
Jay Zaveri
Jay Zaveri
Director
Art.sy, Inc. · Form D, Jul 17, 2017
RP
SC
Sebastian Cwilich
President & COO
MF
WM
CC
Carter Cleveland
Executive officer and director
RB
JK

Sources

  1. SECXona Space Systems Inc. Form D, filed Oct 23, 2026
  2. SECArt.sy, Inc. Form D, filed Jul 17, 2017
  3. InvestorCraft Ventures portfolio page for Xona
  4. PersonalSky Dayton official biography
  5. CompanyXona Series B announcement