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ESA BIC Finland for space-related startups

Space industry is booming! It provides infinite opportunities to startups. European Space Agency’s (ESA) Business Incubation Centre in Finland aims to support aspiring innovative entrepreneurs and ambitious startups financially and technically to reveal their undiscovered space potential.
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ESA BIC Finland and our incubator program

We, ESA BIC Finland, are part of the wide European ESA BIC network. We also have a broad network of other partners who help to support the initiative including financial partners, technical and business support partners, legal and IPR partners, city, and event partners.

Our aim is to support aspiring innovative entrepreneurs and young ambitious startups financially and technically to reveal their full space potential. We welcome ideas and business models proposing new space solutions and technologies in many different fields.

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  • Your innovative idea utilizes space technology, data or expertise, and targets the non-space market, or you have developed something new and potentially interesting for the space market.
  • Your company is no more than 5 years old, or you will start a new company.
  • Your team is or will locate in innovative and startup-friendly Finland.

Identify your space connection!

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Please identity your own space connection out of the following three types: 1) An upstream space connection; 2) A downstream space connection; or 3) A technology transfer. For more detailed information about the three types, download and read the document below.

ESA and Business Finland fund these projects jointly. Whether consumer, business, or both, we help startups and entreprenuers to introduce new technologies to ESA and its partner network, or to transfer existing ESA space technologies from hardware to data such as satellite data to terrestrial uses.

Read more about us, application periods and alumni companies.

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