Space entrepreneurs enjoy an intensive two days at Space Academy Bremen

The Bremen Space Academy held 19-20 November 2019 was a great success. Following a call for startups during the summer, the evaluation committee selected 10 high quality startups to benefit from the personalised services provided by the SpaceUp experts.
This process began with the companies being in contact with the experts (on key topics such as business development, IPR, funding and more) and following discussions each company received 4 personalised feasibility studies. The companies were invited to attend the Space Academy where they join other space tech entrepreneurs in an intensive day of workshops, and got to meet the SpaceUp experts in person, each company benefitting from 6 one-to-one sessions.
The second day of the Space Academy on this occasion was embedded in the large Space Tech Expo event with hundreds of participants and where a panel discussion with VCs and investment experts went over the difficulties companies face in getting funding and how to best address these, the promise of ‘New Space’, how it affects the conventional space ecosystem, and how New Space organisations can be integrated into more conventional ones. The selected SpaceUp companies were then given the chance to pitch to the space tech audience followed by Q&A with the investors and experts.
We look forward to the next Space Academy in Rome, 25-26 March. Call for applications for start-ups and entrepreneurs closes on 12th January!