Venture Into Space
Join UKBAA, Type One Ventures and The UK Space Agency as we drive investment into the UK's leading space & space-adjacent technologies.
We’re delighted to present ‘Venture into Space’: a 12 month long programme that seeks to identify businesses developing revolutionary technologies, guiding them through carefully curated activity, providing them with industry expertise, mentorship and connections in order to strengthen their propositions and ultimately enabling them to raise capital.
Unpicking the opportunities that exist within Space...
Space Technology
Technology that advances our understanding of the universe improves communication and navigation systems, monitors the Earth’s environment, and enables space exploration.
AI and Automation
The utilisation of AI and Automation to support industrial markets like mining and construction to adopt innovation; for example, machine vision, recognition and inspection-related algorithms.
Robotics
Robotics provides a market expansion opportunity for industrial firms: this could be by increasing throughput, improving consistency, and lowing end-product production costs.
Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials play a crucial part in the larger technology stack, providing unique capabilities or structural support. The potential end-market applications are vast.
What the programme offers
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Training will be delivered by in-house investment experts from UKBAA and Type One Ventures
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Tailored workshops comprised of facilitated and coached peer-to-peer training
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Drawing on UKBAA's 750-strong investor network, we will host live pitching events, for the cohort to receive direct feedback
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Blue chip corporates will be invited to participate in facilitated 1:1 dialogue with the cohort
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The programme with culminate in a in-person, invite-only Pitch Celebration, bringing together investors, blue chip corporates, and the institutions that enable SpaceTech in the UK
Critera
We want to identify high-growth SpaceTech businesses. If you’re a UK-based business currently seeking investment, apply for this unique opportunity and benefit from tailored support from UKBAA and Type One Ventures, and access to our combined investment networks.
Investors
Join us on our journey
Space has long been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs, but it also presents UK investors with exciting, tangible opportunities. We invite you to embark on an exploration of this industry, regardless of whether you are an investor entrenched within the sector or simply exploring your interest in it.
Corporates
Be a part of this exploration
We are actively seeking blue chip corporate partners who wish to meet with and potentially form working relationships with our high- growth cohort. Join us to explore how our cohort might be able to support your business.