UK-based Seraphim House is launching its thirteenth accelerator program, with 9 collaborating firms engaged on a spread of applied sciences from propulsion to area manufacturing and area situational consciousness.
The extreme 12-week program goals to make seed and Sequence A firms “investment-ready” by offering knowledgeable steering, networking alternatives, and intensive workshops and promotional coaching periods, the corporate mentioned. Seraphim’s biennial accelerator is the UK’s first devoted to area expertise
The brand new group of firms consists of firms from the UK, the US, Italy and India. they’re:
- AADYAH Aerospace (India), launch autos and satellite tv for pc subsystems
- Arkisys (USA), developer of reusable port modules enabling area enterprise circumstances
- CarbonLaces (UK), a software program analytics platform for local weather and carbon emissions monitoring
- Quad Decision (USA), third-party calibration service for geospatial knowledge
- Frontier House Applied sciences (UK), developer of small satellite tv for pc laboratories
- SaferPlaces (Italy), utilizing a “digital twin” platform for flood danger evaluation
- Spaceflux (UK), supplier of area visitors administration options
- Viridian House (USA), developer of extraordinarily low Earth orbit satellite tv for pc propulsion
There’s additionally a US-based stealth firm that gives cybersecurity for satellite tv for pc networks.
Since 2018, 95 startups have handed by way of Seraphim’s accelerator, with 85% elevating funding inside 12 months, in response to the corporate. Notable alumni embrace Xona House Methods, which lately closed a $19 million Sequence A spherical, in addition to Virtus Solis and Orbital Composites.
Seraphim additionally lately launched its subsequent enterprise capital fund, Seraphim House Ventures II, which is able to give attention to seed and Sequence A investments. The fund goals to construct a worldwide portfolio of 30 start-up firms and is supported by key restricted companions within the aerospace business together with Airbus, Inmarsat and SES.
