ESA Sets Investment Forum

PARIS (ESA PR) — Investors will meet with start-up companies using space tech in terrestrial systems to discuss business prospects and partnerships at the seventh ESA Investment Forum on 16 October in Toulouse, France.
The Forum is an exceptional platform for exploring investment opportunities and business potential.
The selected companies have all built a significant portion of their growth and competitive advantage on the utilisation of technologies and expertise originating from Europe’s space programmes. They will discuss their business ideas and products with the investors.
Mix investors and entrepreneurs
“We pull together investors and people from venture capital funds to meet a number of potential start-up companies, primarily from our business incubation centres,” says Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO).
“Entrepreneurs come to us with great ideas and we help them to mature their ideas in our incubation centres and to develop them into potential business opportunities.”
ESA has set up six business incubation centres to support the use of Europe’s space technology developments in non-space fields. This is often done by entrepreneurs creating new businesses by taking existing space technologies and turning them around creating innovative solutions for applications on Earth.
“The next step ...