We believe Space can do more for Earth

Our Mission

Space4Impact wants to maximize the positive impact of Space technologies on Earth by linking New Space companies to non-space markets. The goal is to internationally boost the growing New Space Economy in line with the UN SDGs.

The Space4Impact Ecosystem brings together governmental and non-governmental organisations, investors, corporates, and New Space entrepreneurs. Space4Impact created a digital ecosystem platform to help corporates, investors and organisations, who want to integrate disruptive solutions, innovate and accelerate their impact sustainably by learning, conducting open innovation challenges and initiating pilot projects with startups and News Space companies.

Our Ecosystem marketplace

Marketplace

New Space & IMpact

The New Space sector is a fast-growing market, boosting the historical institutional Space exploration programs into commercial applications. Bryce Space & Technology and Morgan Stanley estimates that the roughly $366 billion global Space industry in 2019 could surge to over $1 trillion by 2040. At the same time, Space applications, such as Earth Observation (EO) and geolocation, increasingly play a key role when it comes to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The current growth in the development of Space infrastructures and production of data from Space is opening a full range of new applications with even more new business opportunities. This trend is difficult to follow for non-Space companies and investors, due to the lack of education/knowledge transfer, as well as the difficulties for New Space companies to reach the right customer for their products.

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Meet the Team

Gaetan Petit

Co-Founder & Project Manager

Gaetan is a tech transfer officer at Space Innovation a business unit from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Gaetan is promoting space technologies

Cyril Kubr

Co-Founder

Cyril is the deputy director of the European Space Agency (ESA) Business Incubation Centre Switzerland.

Cyril is boosting high tech space startups

Grégoire Bourban

Co-Founder

Grégoire is the deputy director of Space Innovation at EPFL.

Grégoire is supporting space innovation in Switzerland

Edoardo Alberti

Venture Partner

Edoardo is the co-founder of the Swiss company Micos – “Engineering for Remote Sensing”. At Micos, Edoardo works as a senior system engineer and is responsible for sales & business development.

Edoardo is recently conducted an executive MBA at EPFL

Adela Villanueva

Venture Partner

Adela has 15 years of experience transforming, accelerating and scaling large organizations, startups and businesses around the globe.

Adela is helping Space4Impact accelerate its growth and facilitate high tech startups-corporate & public sector collaboration, as well as helping organizations embrace sustainable innovation

Raphael Roettgen

Venture Partner

Raphael is the founder of E2MC Space Ventures and possesses a unique blend of space and financial expertise. He has 20 years of global financial markets experience in M&A and investing, at banks and hedge funds.

Raphael is also the author of Hoch Hinaus, an introductory book on space business

Nina Walker

Business analyst

Nina has a background in business analytics, marketing and event organization. She recently graduated from the business school HEC Lausanne and previously studied at hospitality management school EHL.

Gabriela Ligeza

Tech analyst

Gabriela has a background in Earth sciences and has been a trainee at ESA. She recently graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and is a former member of ETHZ rocket team.

Volker Gass

Advisor

Prof. Volker Gass is the Head of Space Innovation at EPFL. He moved to academia after more than 20 years of working in the space industry sector.

From January 2014 to December 2017, he represented Swiss interests on ESA’s Human Spaceflight and Exploration Science Advisory Committee (HESAC).

His research is related to Systems Engineering as well as technology developments compatible with space environments.

José Achache

Advisor

José is the director of AP-Swiss, the ESA Ambassador Platform for satcoms and integrated applications with the Swiss industry. Previously he was the director of the Group on Earth Observations, the director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, and the deputy director for Research and Technology at CNES, the French space agency.

José is the architect of COPERNICUS, the global Earth monitoring programme of the European Union