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    Enhancing the commercial cases of ESA supported start-ups

    Established in 2022, the ESA Partnership Initiative for Commercialisation (EPIC) is an initiative from the ESA Commercialisation Department connecting corporate, academic and institutional partners with ESA supported start-ups. EPIC aims to empower entrepreneurship and enhance the commercial cases of European start-ups through brokering clear synergetic offers.
    EPIC reaches into the world’s largest space innovation network: ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs), ESA Technology Brokers and ESA Phi-LabNet [links to all] and the hundreds os start-ups supported by them.

    Advocating purpose, diversity and sustainability

    Together with the EPIC members, the ESA Commercialisation Department and the ESA BICs we strive for meaningful offers and diverse space sector underpinned by sustainability and global change.

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    Access to insights and customers

    The partners of EPIC benefit from access to the growing ESA start-up portfolio. Through engaging with innovative start-ups EPIC partners gain new market insights into the space domain and many other verticals. Early engagement with ESA BIC start-ups can also lead to the prospective acquisition of new customers when there is a compelling case.

    Commercialisation and technical support

    The ESA start-ups benefit from access to exclusive and preferential offers of products and services by the EPIC partners. Through engaging with the EPIC partners ESA start-ups can gain new business insights, supply chain partners and commercial opportunities. EPIC partners often accompany the preferential provision of their services and products with dedicated technical support via webinars or one-to-one sessions. On some occasions EPIC partners also provide C-level mentoring to promising start-ups on business and technical matters.

    Ecosystem growth

    EPIC is an initiative connecting EPIC partners and ESA start-ups to broaden the reach of the innovation ecosystem at large and to diversify the business of space. The existing network of ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) is a at the heart of this community as the main start-up supporter on a local level. EPIC builds on the strength of this existing community and strives to further grow the ecosystem.

    Events

    EPIC is jointly organizing various events with the EPIC partners for ESA start-ups. These range from tailored webinars and pitch competitions to networking cocktails and meet and greets at bigger events.

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