The European Go2Space-HUBs project has incubated and accelerated forty-three start-ups and contributed to the creation of five new ones, offering support to more than two hundred and fifty companies.

The space industry represents one of the sectors with the greatest potential and dynamism in the economy, due to the high degree of technology of its products and services.

At the same time, space companies contribute to the development of other sectors and to the improvement of the living conditions of citizens.

One of the major commitments of the European Union is to strengthen business culture as a growth engine for the economy at local, national and European level.

To achieve business growth and drive the creation of new emerging initiatives, strong local ecosystems are needed for adding value to start-ups and helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas into successful actions.

The European Go2Space-HUBs project, which has ended last November 30, aims to develop and grow European companies that offer technology and services to and from the space sector, ensuring the generation of value and innovation through three HUBs in Madrid (Spain), Coimbra (Portugal) and Tallinn (Estonia).

Main results

Since the beginning of the project two years ago, a wide range of local initiatives have been carried out for entrepreneurs, start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, building bridges with the activities of the European Union, designed to ensure the creation of new start-ups and help those that already exist to grow.

Specifically, two incubation programs have been created in Coimbra and Tallinn and two acceleration programs in Madrid. Besides, three Innovation Days, three hackathons, three Demo Days, four B2B Brokerage Events, six coaching sessions and a final event have been held in which, after an extensive selection process, eleven of the companies incubated and accelerated in Go2Space-HUBs, had the opportunity to present their projects to specialized investors. For two days, all participants have been able to schedule One2One meetings, create new contacts, and much more.

Go2space-HUBs has incubated and accelerated forty-three start-ups, has contributed to the creation of five new ones, and has offered support to more than 250 companies, ensuring the creation of value and innovation through the transfer and application to other business sectors, the training and promotion of local networks that connect effectively with existing European Union initiatives.

Go2Space-HUBs continues to grow and increase its impact on the European business companies and cooperate with institutions, entities and industrial partners.

Meet our companies:

HUB Coimbra Incubation Programme

HUB Madrid 1st Acceleration Programme

HUB Madrid 2nd Acceleration Programme

HUB Tallinn Incubation Programme

Thanks to all!

Last November 9-10 took place the Go2Space-HUBs Final Event in the framework of the Tech Tour Space Investment and Partnering Event, where ten of our companies had the opportunity to present their projects to specialized investors.

Top 51 start-ups, selected from a pool of more than 140 candidates, presented their business at the Tech Tour Space 2021 Programme with online Pitching Sessions last November.

The Tech Tour Space Programme is designed to help European start-ups developing tech solutions in the Space sector or developing applications based on satellite data to boost their investment readiness and build relations with investors.

Our companies taking part:

• Madrid Space is an engineering company which offers high quality solutions, in particular in the field of thermal engineering.
• Nanoker produces and commercializes high performance ceramic components based on advanced ceramics, nanoceramics and nanocomposites for industrial and biomedical applications.
• Matereo is making the construction sector more efficient and more sustainable by using remote sensing and advanced data analytics.
• Spaceway aims to boost businesses value through customer-centered innovative solutions that use space assets to improve products and services on Earth.
• Litegrav.AI develops solutions for space bioscience to help both academia and industry in their research.
• 10Lines develops autonomous parking lot marking solutions using robotics and AI.
• Space Engineer developing solutions to absorb and dissipate High Velocity Impact as Space Debris
• Space Sur software engineering and solutions for the entire aerospace cycle.
• Constrack by Starlab tool for remote change tracking based on SAR and optical images.
• Waterjade optimize water harvesting for industrial applications.

The top 13 European Space tech companies seeking seed or series A investment into different sub-sectors, were the award winners of the Tech Tour Space 2021.

The winners were selected by investors who considered the management experience, the merit of the product or technology used, the market potential, the competitive position, the quality of presentation and the credibility of the business model.

And the winners are…

Quantum Dice, MAGRDIVE, ClearSpace, MULTIVERSE, PlasmaBound, Dotphoton, Sofant Technologies, CYSEC, Pangea Aerospace, Share my Space, Sateliot, Packwise and the Go2Space HUB Tallinn incubated company 10LINES. Congratulations!

They will be invited to the Tech Tour Future22 international investment event in March 2022, to be attended by 1000+ top investors, experts and guests from Europe, the United States, Asia, Middle East and Western Africa.

Last Tuesday, November 16, one of the Go2Space-HUBs accelerated start-ups, Nanoker Research, has participated in the “R+D+i challenges 2021” virtual event, organized by our partner and project coordinator the UC3M Science Park.

Nowadays, a new concept of flexible industry comes into play. Likewise, the factory must look for new materials to be resilient and sustainable. Before long, different industrial sectors could face a global shortage of key materials for manufacturing and a collapse of the supply chain.

The race for new chemical materials and compounds that remedy the current deficiencies or provide them with new functions may represent a golden opportunity for the reconstruction and relocation of the chemical and mining sectors of countries like Spain.

Last November 16, took place the “R+D+i challenges 2021” virtual event that addressed these two challenges, organized by our partner and project coordinator the UC3M Science Park, where Sergio Rivera, CTO from Nanoker Rersearch, participated in the round table “Innovation and business practice”.

The Go2Space-HUBs accelerated start-up Nanoker Rersearch, produces and commercializes high performance ceramic components based on advanced ceramics, nanoceramics and nanocomposites for industrial and biomedical applications.

South Summit Madrid 2021, the largest annual event in southern Europe for entrepreneurs and investors, will take place in Madrid (Spain) from October 5 to 7. 

Go2Space-HUBs participates in this edition with a stand: nº114, coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where you can meet our accelerated start-ups:

October 5th

• 9:00-11:00 Space Sur 
• 15:00-17:00 Astroland
• 17:00-19:00 Hydra Space

October 6th

• 11:00-13:00 Hydra Space
• 13:00-15:00 Madrid Space
• 15:00-17:00 Space Sur 
• 17:00-19:00 Nanoker

October 7th

• 9:00-10:00 Astroland
• 12:00-14:00 Nanoker

Don’t miss the pitches of our start-ups on October 5:

• 11:45-11:50 Geko Navsat
• 11:55-12:00 Space Sur 

We will also present the Go2Space-HUBs project on October 5, 19:00-20:00h CEST.

And the UC3M Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Service, Virgilio Díaz, and Go2Space-HUBs project’s coordinator, will also participates at the panel ‘The Role of Liaison Entities supporting Innovation & Entrepeneurship’,  on October 7 at 11:35 am CEST.

Join us!