Background
ESV was formed by the founders of Space Ventures Investors Ltd to meet a growing demand in Europe and internationally for new space investors (institutions, technology funds, HNW, family offices) to invest in space companies.
The founders of ESV recognised an OPPORTUNITY:
Investment in the European space sector is lagging the US and other markets.
Therefore ESV will build and fund new and mature European space companies to help close the gap and become the market leader within Europe. Europe has the innovation and technical sophistication but is lacking in sufficient capital to be in any way truly competitive in the New Global Space economy at this time.
ESV is the SOLUTION
ESV will be focusing half of its capital on European Space Ventures that have an established technological track record, including previous funding from local space agencies and support programs, and fulfil a market need; be it becoming a first mover in Europe or Internationally, or becoming a first-mover in a new field such as Lunar Mining.
ESV may be investing in vetted Start-Ups, and existing enterprises and ventures that are seeking Series A and Series B capitalisation, and ideally have a Technology Readiness Level of 3-4 or higher.
In doing so ESV will offer an alternative European Space Investment capital source to the marketplace, and provide leadership and management services to those entities as required and where appropriate to protect shareholder-value.
The ESV Founders have 10 years of experience in these processes…
Simon Drake, CEO of ESV: “We started our own space investing company in the United Kingdom, and soon become space entrepreneurs, including building a start-up that was participated in a European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Germany, and then an accelerator at the Thales Alenia Space – Space Business Catalyst in Italy.
We also funded, pre-seed and seed, multiple space companies, and have screened well over 1000 pitches. We designed ESV because we wanted a European style of space investment, to support European space companies, that was also de-risked and designed to weather economic cycles.”