UK-based private equity firm Seraphim Capital has chosen the first six startups for its Space Camp Accelerator, which is backed by several corporate partners, TechCrunch has reported.
The initiative is supported by legal firm Dentons, aerospace manufacturers Rolls-Royce and Airbus, the latter’s SSTL subsidiary, engineering services firm Cyient, space data provider SA Catapult, spaceflight service Telespazio and Capital Enterprise as well as UK Space Agency and European Space Agency.
Space Camp Accelerator’s first cohort includes QuadSat, a Denmark-based developer of testing and calibration tools for satellite antennas, US-based satellite propulsion system developer Tesseract Space and UK-based agricultural robotics startup Earth Rover.
The participants were filled out by three more UK-based companies: satellite data provider Global Surface Intelligence, field-programmable gate array developer Reconfigure.io and agricultural data platform KisanHub.