The European space industrial base is set to accelerate from a passive period of post-Cold-War and European Union civility, into an innovative, proactive, assertive, multinational and unified force: European Space Ventures calls it Space Fortress Europe.
European Space Ventures AG (ESV) has been formed by the founders of Space Ventures Investors Ltd (SVI).
The founder’s vision for ESV is to be the leading space investment for Europeans.
ESV is a dedicated Space Investing Company based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It focuses on the Space, Deep Tech, and Defence sectors within Europe. It’s primary function is allocating capital from European Space Investors (both individual and corporate) to fund European ventures, ranging from start-ups to small and medium-sized enterprises. A key strategy is European Sovereignty.
ESV’s investment focus revolves around three main sector pillars:
Space Fortress Europe: A focus on the European space industrial base, aiming to accelerate it into an innovative, proactive, assertive, multinational, and unified force.
Strategic Space Value Chain: Commercial space activities spanning from Earth (Ground Stations, Low-Earth Orbit, Geo-synchronous Orbit) to the Moon (lunar orbits and surface operations) – a shared strategy with SVI’s Strategic Space Value Chain.
Space Resources: This sector includes filtering valuable resources from Lunar regolith and harnessing solar energy in space, with a long-term outlook on building new industries like Moon mining and Space Based Solar Power infrastructure.
Deep Dive: Space Fortress Europe
The European Space Ventures investment case for Space Fortress Europe is to:
- Invest alongside companies that are aligned with developing and securing Europe’s sovereignty in space, including launch for European countries, secure communications, earth observation and surveillance, and building out space infrastructure in all orbits.
- Building and co-managing joint-ventures that add layers of technical space innovation to Space Fortress Europe.
- ESV offers Space Fortress Europe Research – to find investment opportunities.
