Investor Lounge: How to Invest in Space

UK Space Ecosystem

One of the keys to investing successfully in space is understanding the ecosystem. We’ll take an investor-focused view of the ecosystem and explore some questions including:

• Where are start-ups forming around the country?
• How do academia and government support and engage?
• Where are the pockets of capability around the country?
• Where are they key angel and VC groups around the UK for space investment?

As always, we will feature a case study in this week’s Lounge. Spire is a high growth space scale-up who builds and operates a multi-purpose fleet of satellites and sells data directly to customers. It closed a significant SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) in 2021 and we’ll go through its growth trajectory and lessons learnt since it went public.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction
• Introduction to UK Space investment ecosystem with Dan Veal, Principal Investigator at Exotopic
• Discussion: The ‘where’ and ‘how’ of space networks in the UK
• Case Study (and discussion) of a leading space services company: Spire