Urania Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies operating at the intersection of entrepreneurship and cutting-edge science.

Urania Ventures

Urania Ventures is a French-German private investment company with a global portfolio. As an evergreen fund, Urania is committed for the long term to back scientific breakthrough technology founders who strive to serve humanity for the better. The investment focus is space technology, sustainable aero, and robotics. Urania believes in science as a critical driver for innovation and the responsibility to invest in courageous leaders early.

Helicity Space Secures Investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures

Helicity Space, a commercial space company developing in-space propulsion and power technology based on fusion power, has announced an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This latest raise from Lockheed Martin Ventures comes on the heels of a $5 million seed round from investors including Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space Holdings, E2MC Space, Urania Ventures and Gaingels in December.

Read Here : https://lnkd.in/g7TXS5JG

#HelicitySpace Co-Founder Stephane Lintner is also the CEO and Co-Founder of JIKO, the modern custodial bank built on U.S. Treasury Bills. 

Prior to his founding of Helicity and JIKO, Lintner worked as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs’ Securities Division for almost a decade, leveraging technology and finding synergies to modernize the bank. He graduated from Caltech with a PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics and holds a Master’s degree in Machine Learning and Computer Science from the Ecole Normale Superieure in France.

We are dedicated to changing the game with #fusionpropulsion and its applications to advance #spaceexploration efforts. Learn more about the team of experts driving innovation at Helicity Space: https://bit.ly/3T5e4st

ThrustMe closes contract order with Centre National d'Études Spatiales CNES for several off-the-shelf propulsion systems 🚀

“ThrustMe was able to design, develop and produce a very innovative product that meets the needs of the market. All this in record time! CNES is a proud customer of ThrustMe, their Iodine electric propulsion systems are key to the future of European satellites,” said Philippe Baptiste, CNES Chairman and CEO.

This pioneering collaboration reflects a paradigm shift in the space industry, removing traditional boundaries between ‘old’ and ‘new’ space sectors. CNES, a longstanding player, is embracing a complete and reliable off-the-shelf propulsion system.

At the core of this groundbreaking contract is ThrustMe’s NPT30-I2, a miniaturized iodine electric propulsion system. This game-changing technology enables CNES to swiftly adapt to the dynamic demands of their projects.

Read the full press release in the comments 👇

📸  Philippe Baptiste, CNES Chairman together with ThrustMe's founders, Ane Aanesland and Dmytro Rafalskyi.

We're pleased to announce $5 million in seed round funding from several new investors including Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space, E2MC Ventures, Urania Ventures and Gaingels. 

“Nuclear fusion propulsion technology is the critical missing ingredient to fast, sustainable and safe space exploration of our solar system. We thank our investors for not only understanding the impact this new technology will have, but also for believing in the entrepreneurial spirit that’s required to expand the robust space economy from Earth's orbit and cislunar's operating grounds all the way to deep space.” - Stephane Lintner, Co-Founder of Helicity Space

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4asEaOj 

#HelicitySpace #FusionPropulsion #SpaceExploration

„Future Fortune 500 companies/funders“🚀- I am thrilled to see our #UraniaUniverse on one panel with Hélène Huby, Founder & CEO of The Exploration Company, and Alexander Kudlich, General Partner at 468 Capital (Alexander has been one of the first backers behind Zalando, Hello Fresh, and many more European success stories), moderated by Jeremy Kahn, Editor at Fortune.

Congratulations, dear Selma Stern and the entire Fortune Team, on launching this impressive first-ever Fortune 500 #Europe list, ranking the most significant European companies by #revenue👏👏 

The 5 youngest #Fortune500 Europe companies are German: AUTO1 Group, Delivery Hero SE, HelloFresh, BioNTech SE, and Zalando! …and #Germany stands out with the highest representation in the Fortune 500 Europe list, boasting a total of 80 companies in the rankings. https://lnkd.in/eZ4FXv73

Thank you, Selma, for inviting all of us to London last night - even though I couldn’t be there in person, I celebrate #Europe with you. 🇪🇺

Thank you, Fortune, for giving #Europe such a strong focus. 💪

📸 by Tanja Bogumil 🥚 

#EuropeStrong #GrowthThroughInnovation

#SpaceFounders Night Berlin 🚀 🇪🇺 

I am pleased to officially invite you to the SpaceFounders Demo Day & Space Night on December 7, 2023, in Berlin.
 
The Space Night in Berlin marks the grand finale of the fourth batch of the SpaceFounders program. The evening is dedicated to networking and pitches from the ten startups, selected #deeptech investors, leading #space experts, politicians, and experts from the #GermanArmedForces.
 
Ping me if you want to attend and meet the founders of 

- ASTROLAB SAS (France)
- Cognitive Design Systems (France)
- Constellation Technologies & Operations (France)
- deltaVision - fluid control & aerospace (Germany)
- eOdyn (France)
- SaferPLACES (Italy)
- SAT.IO (Germany)
- Spaceflux (UK)
- SPHERICAL Systems ( Netherlands) 
- VEOWARE SPACE (Belgium)

A big thank you to the SpaceFounders team for continuously driving impact for the next generation of space tech leaders in Europe, 🙏  Felix Kästner, Stephanie Wißmann, Nadine Chochoiek, Anaïs van Wynsberghe, Lucie Campagnolo, Rafaela Kraus. 

SpaceFounders empowers #European #spacetech startups from Pre-Seed to Series A with a bold 3-month acceleration program. 

#SpaceTechEU 🇪🇺

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