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Prague is where it happened! Two days of networking and discussions about pioneering developments in the sector at the EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme Cassini Entrepreneurship Days. SpaceFounders program manager Andreas Heitmann joined the "Finding Your Customer" panel, together with Axel Roenneke from OroraTech), Novica Mrdovic Vianello, Rosa Ruiloba from Unseenlabs and moderated by Tomas S. Jonsson from EC DEFIS. As sharing is caring, here are the insights: 🚀 Focus on Your Tier 1 Customers: Prioritize customers with significant Tier 1 problems that your solution can address effectively. This focus ensures that your efforts are directed towards high-impact opportunities and helps you secure your first anchor customer. 📍 Product-Market Fit: Space startups must focus on solving real problems with a customer-centric approach. It’s not just about developing impressive tech but ensuring it meets end-users’ needs and that there is a commercial market for it. 🎯 Timing and Persistence: Introducing products at the right time and being persistent, especially during slow periods, is key. Securing an anchor customer and quick Letters of Intent is a pivotal moment for startups, providing crucial market validation and attracting further investment and additional customers. Sounds like a lot? The good news: At SpaceFounders, we are dedicated to supporting startups through our strong network of partners. We help them acquire customers and prepare comprehensively to be investor-ready, refining their go-to-market strategies along the way. Living proof? Bastiaan Bom and Thomas Parry from SPHERICAL and  Alex Plebuch from deltaVision - fluid control & aerospace. #CassiniDays #SpaceFounders #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Startups #Investment #ProductMarketFit #CustomerFocus

UVC Partners is a shining example of Bavaria's innovative strength. Within the renowned start-up centre UnternehmerTUM, which is closely linked to the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich), UVC Partners has developed into one of the leading European B2B deeptech investors. 🚀 With an impressive portfolio of companies such as Aleph Alpha, Isar Aerospace, Lilium, Proxima Fusion, Flix, ChargeX and planqc, UVC Partners demonstrates how academic support and a strong network can drive breakthrough innovation. 🌐 The Bavarian funding landscape attracts not only local but also international companies that see Bavaria as a solid foundation for their expansion. UVC Partners plays a key role in this by making early-stage investments and supporting startups with valuable contacts and resources. 📈 Not only capital, but also first-class networks and collaboration opportunities make Bavaria a hotspot for cross-industry innovation. UnternehmerTUM and UVC Partners offer international companies exceptional opportunities to network with start-ups and work together on pioneering technologies. See examples for cross-industry innovation in Bavaria: https://lnkd.in/dieeucVD Images: UVC Partners #successinbavaria #crossindustryinnovation #bytevaria #startups #venturecapital

Innovation is a branch of a tree striving to reach higher, seeking more light. 🪴💡 However, solid and numerous roots are essential for healthy growth: innovation needs a common, cohesive, harmonious effort. With this reflection, we return home from Puglia from the ITALIAN INNOVATION ROADSHOW: a land that embraces the future and innovation while never forgetting its traditions and the strong roots on which it stands. 🌳 Special thanks to InnovUp, Premio 2031 and ELIS Innovation Hub as organizers of the event, for the invitation and to Regione Puglia, The Qube Incubator, SprintX, Digital Tech Lecce, Puglia Women Lead as partners of the event. A heartfelt thanks also to the other #spacetech field startups who participated in the round table: Leaf Space, REA Space, G-nous, Planetek Italia and Astradyne. It is through these events, where people talk, discuss, and share their stories, that a new tree of innovation is sown, with a common ultimate goal: to improve a piece of our planet. 🌍 #youngentrepreneurship #sustainability #space #deeptech #startup #techstartup #entrepreneurship #testcampaing #testing #deeptechstartup #energy #energytrasmission

👾 Are you ready to the define the Airport of the Future with your cutting-edge solution? “Disruptive Solutions” Challenge of Aeroporti di Roma 3rd Global #Call4Startups of the #RunwaytotheFuture Acceleration Program is looking for you! 🏆Fill in your application and shape the airport of the future 👉 https://lnkd.in/dzYqQFrK In this Challenge, they are looking for #startups and innovative solution beyond the following topics: 🔸 High-impact technological solutions 🔸 Deep tech solutions 🔸 Disruption of standard processes 🔸 New applications within the airport context The selected startups will benefit from: 💸 up to €80k for each Startup 🔭 up to €2Mln contract, after testing, for a full commercial roll-out ⭐ potential investment by our CVC Fund #ADRVentures …and many others 🛫 Register to the Q&A Sessions and learn more about the challenges and the application process 1️⃣  Monday March 11th | 5:00 – 6:00 PM CET 👉 register here: https://lnkd.in/dE3BnRcF 2️⃣  Monday March 18th | 5:00 – 6:00 PM CET 👉 register here: https://lnkd.in/ebncZAbM 🗓️Expiration date: March 22nd

🌟We encourage you to participate in this space within 4YFN to learn more about the role of Lab3040 in the Catalan innovation ecosystem and the projects we drive. These are the questions we will be discussing during the open innovation session in this dedicated space for Lab3040 members: 1. What is the innovation process like in each company? 2. What is the collaboration model with startups in each company? 3. What are the requirements for startups to initiate a collaboration? 4. What specific challenges are each company currently addressing? Our presentation as Lab3040 members will take place from 11:30 to 12:00 at the MWCapital Stand in 4YFN-MWC 2024 - Hall 8.1 - Stand 8.1B55. Mobile World Capital Barcelona Here are the professionals who will be participating: Jose Maria Santos Figueroa - Ibercaja, Anna Casals Terré - CELSA GROUP, Margarida Lopez Romero - Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Guillem Roig - Cofidis Group, and Alexander Phimister 🤫🍀. Let's connect for innovation! #Lab3040 #InnovationEcosystem #Collaboration #Startups #Challenges #4YFN #MWC2024

🤝 BOOST is a collaborative endeavor between Northeast Bulgaria (Varna), Northwest Romania (Cluj-Napoca), Catalunya (Barcelona), Tartu (Estonia), and Vejle (Denmark). 🇪🇺 This unique cross-border partnership brings together a diverse range of innovation ecosystems, ensuring that you’ll connect with innovative partners in the sectors of Industry 4.0, Digital Health, Clean and Green tech. BOOST opens doors to a world of possibilities, enabling you to tap into the latest trends, innovations, and funding opportunities. 📲 Here are 5 reasons how BOOST can help your organization > https://lnkd.in/dcJuVfuG #EUInnovationEcosystems #collaboration #HorizonEurope #SMEs #innovation #startups #BOOST #ProjectBoost

Innovative start-ups and SMEs: we are looking for you! 🫵   Fincantieri's Call4Startup, a call to collect proposals from startups and innovative SMEs on the themes of green transition and operational excellence, is starting.   A path that underscores our commitment to an open innovation approach, aiming to accelerate the innovation process by discovering and integrating new ideas and emerging technologies developed by external talents.   The initiative is carried out in collaboration with Cariplo Factory - one of the most important open innovation hubs in Italy - and offers selected realities the opportunity to develop a prototype with our collaboration, through which they can test their solutions and validate their technology.   If you are an innovative reality in the fields of green transition or operational excellence, focused on finding solutions to support the energy transition of ships and improve shipyard operations, we are waiting for you!  💡You have until September 24 to apply.   Follow the link to learn about the thematic areas of the Call topic and for more information 👇 https://lnkd.in/dr3zjbDn #Fincantieri #FutureOnBoard #Innovation #Startup

#AustrianStartupsSummit by AustrianStartups this week was not only great to connect with bright minds working on our future, but also to discuss the challenges of the ecosystem in Austria and Europe.   🔥Most striking fact being: While Europe is painful and fragmented for international investors, most Growth Rounds are still led by US Funds. Or: "They are eating our lunch!"   📣At ÖBB we value the often mentioned intergenerational discussion, so to the many exciting start-ups I met and others out there: If you develop solutions relevant to ÖBB, particularly focusing on mobility, energy, logistics, or new work: We encourage you to connect with us! #öbb #startups #innovation #AustrianStartupsSummit

✨ Exchange with Lufthansa Innovation Hub 💡 In today's dynamic business world, #dialogue with others is crucial for long-term #success. But not only with partners, startups or investors. We also need to #exchange ideas with those who work in the same field as we do. Someone, who may have the same #challenges, #ideas or #solutions that can inspire and advance us in our work. New insights and perspectives enable us to improve or change our processes and subject areas. So, exchanging is what we did this week: Our colleagues Johannes Diem and Selina Lehmann were in Berlin at Lufthansa Innovation Hub and talked to Stefan Nothelfer, Sebastian Feldmann and Fabrice Diedrich about #experiences, best practice cases and the entire collaboration with startups. It was a very informative conversation with many #insights and new #inspirations on how we can optimize our daily activities even further. Many thanks to Lufthansa Innovation Hub for this great and informative day. We look forward to incorporating the knowledge gained into our work! #MAHLENewVentures #Weboostfuturebusiness #innovation #exchange #startups #bestpractices

🚀 ACCELERO Consortium Meeting in Nantes: Key Highlights and Future Directions 🌐 The ACCELERO team gathered for a pivotal consortium meeting in Nantes, hosted at the Bpifrance premises. This was a significant occasion as partners shared progress on pilot testing the co-created services, discussed insights, and explored the future legacy of ACCELERO. Key Highlights: - Progress Sharing: Partners detailed the advancements in pilot testing, providing valuable insights and discussing the impact achieved. - Strategic Discussions: Focused on the legacy of ACCELERO and its role in fostering a pan-European innovation ecosystem. 📅 What's Next for ACCELERO: - Open Call for Start-ups and SMEs: Launching the Go Global programme to support startups in overcoming the challenges of international growth. - Innovation Without Borders Workshop: Scheduled for June 25th, this workshop aims to equip business support organisations, startups, innovators, and other stakeholders with insights and tools to foster a thriving ecosystem through international cooperation. Join us in our journey to expand the ACCELERO community and drive impactful innovation across Europe. 🔗 Register for the workshop: https://lnkd.in/dTtjgtMK Special thanks to our consortium partners and the support from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA): EurA AG, EBN - European Business & Innovation Centre Network, bwcon, BIC Innobridge, EuroQuity - Bpifrance, and Krakowski Park Technologiczny | Krakow Technology Park. #EUInnovationEcosystems #innovation #startups #SMEs #HorizonEU