We help your transformative business ideas become a reality in the market
Our aim is to fill the gap between your bright business idea and the market. We provide you with equity and IPR-free co-funding (up to 80%), along with technical and business support, ultimately promoting you and your idea to succeed among investors and in the market.
We invest in high-risk/high-reward initiatives and act not as an end customer, but much more like your partner.
We are open-minded in our approach to your compelling and innovative idea, linking it with other ideas or putting you in contact with the right people within the Φ-lab community to increase your chances of success.
In this role, ESA Φ-lab behaves as a de-risking partner and facilitator by stimulating competitive growth among economic operators.
We operate through three pillars, the Φ-lab Community, the Φ-lab InCubed Commercialisation Programme and the Invest Actions.
Fosters industry-to-industry and industry-to-academia synergies and cooperation to accelerate the adoption of innovative business solutions.
InCubed offers Private Public Partnership investment opportunities to support and develop innovative and commercially successful products and services in Earth observation. It encourages high-risk/high-reward developments by mitigating their technical and financial risks.
An industry-led commercial programme that prioritises business over technology
Developing EO innovative and commercially successful products and services
Anything from full satellites, end-to-end missions, flight hardware and software to EO data, value-added services and innovative business models
A permanently open call
A partnership between industry, ESA and National Delegations
A series of dedicated action to accelerate access to risk capital for innovation risk funding, dramatically accelerate your innovation.
