It’s tough being a start-up at the best of times. At the beginning of March 2020, in their first lockdown videoconference, the agriBORA team was unanimous. It was going to be difficult to survive.
The evaluation phase of the leading innovation competition for Satellite Navigation comes up with some results. The winners will not be disclosed until the Awards Ceremony in December but the finalists of the Galileo Prize Hesse can already be revealed now.
HOSTmi GmbH, a Darmstadt-based, young IT company has developed an online B2B platform to facilitate the matching of payloads with available launch capacity. This enables the hosting of payloads across a diverse range of space platforms globally, including orbital, sub-orbital and deep space campaigns. Southern Launch, as a provider of launch services in South Australia, has recognized the benefit that the HOSTmi platform can provide to its customers, and so has executed a Brokerage Agreement with HOSTmi. HOSTmi entered the ESA BIC Hessen & Baden-Württemberg in 2018.
Deep Blue Globe, Dipteron and HOSTmi are among the 15 selected teams that receive access to €100.000 equity-free funding and the PARSEC second stage business support services. In total, 60 consortia consisting of start-ups and SMEs had their businesses evaluated by a jury of experts during the PARSEC Demo days.
ConstellR, startup from the ESA BIC Hessen & Baden-Württemberg, could prevail against a big number of competitors and reached a joint third place. Each startup presented their business proposals to delegates online at ESA’s Industrial Policy Committee meeting on 29 June. ConstellR’s idea is to offer a land surface temperature monitoring service based on a CubeSat constellation and Copernicus data. This way, agriculture shall become more efficient and greener.
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