• NORDIC LAUNCH  ACCELERATOR PROGRAM

    FOR SPACE STARTUPS

  • Next program: NORDIC LAUNCH fall 2022

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    What you get

    • Specialized business development support
    • Meet the industry and grow your network
    • Improve your business through workshops & talks
    • Improve your financial strategy and valuation
    • Guest speakers share valuable experiences
    • Meet the Nordic ESA BIC Nordic team and get insights in ESA funding opportunities
    • Pitch to investors and industry at SPACEPORT NORWAY

    Are you ready to launch your business?

  • Program 2021 - (program 2022 TBA)

    9 day accelerator program to launch your business. Please note that the program will be updated and might be subject to change. Covid-19: Guidelines and restrictions due to Covid-19 will be followed throughout the program,and may force the program to change and/or run through video conferences.

     

    WEEK 1

    1

    BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

     

    Tuesday 19.10

    @Kjeller Innovasjon

    • Welcome and introduction
    • Business development workshop
    • Riskiest assumptions
    • Dinner & networking
    2

    SPACE AGENCY DAY

     

     

     

    Wednesday 20.10

    @Norsk Romsenter

    • Intro to ESA & Norsk romsenter
    • Upstream/downstream applications - research and present findings
    • Guest speakers
    Evening event: Participation on Spaceport Norway Live Sessions @ Mesh Community
     
    3

    INDUSTRY DAY WITH EQUINOR

     

     

     

    Thursday 21.10

    @Kjeller with Equinor

    • Intro to Equinor's strategy Equinor Ventures and space initiatives
    • Pitch your idea
    • How can your idea be used in Equinors value chain? Get challenged by Equinor mentors
    4

    MENTOR DAY

     

     

     

    Friday 22.10

    @Kjeller Innovasjon

    • Pitch your company
    • Meet the mentors - get valuable feedback
  • 25th-29th of October: No official program: Get feedback from mentors and Kjeller Innovation team.

    WEEK 2:

    1

    HOW 2 SUCCED AS A (SPACE) TECH STARTUP 

    Monday 1st of Nov.

    @Kjeller

    • Go 2 Market strategy
    • Guest Speaker: Harald Olderheim, Glint Solar
    • Guest Speaker: Amir Rahmani, NASA
    2

    FINANCIAL STRATEGY 

    Tuesday 2nd of Nov.

    @Nordea Banking

    • Improve your financial strategy, connected with milestones & KPIs
    • What is VC funding? -  I.e. SNÖ Ventures
    • Sources to finance
    • Impossible Valuations - Guest speaker - Ketil Wig
    • Food, drinks & networking
    3

     INDUSTRY NETWORKING DAY

     

    Wednesday 3rd of Nov.

    @Norsk Katapultsenter, Raufoss 

    4

    PITCH TRAINING

     

    Thursday 4th of Nov

    @Kjeller Innovasjon, Kjeller

    • Work with ESA applications or business plan
    • Prepare and tune your pitch deck with valuable feedback from experienced business developers
    5

    DEMO DAY

     

    Friday 5th of Nov.

    @SNØ, Oslo

    • Present for Kjeller Innovasjons investor network, pre-seed fund and ESA BIC
    • Networking
  • Tentativ digital program Nordic Launch:

    1

    FINANCIAL STRATEGY WORKSHOP

     

    Digital September

    with Nordea Banking

    • Improve your financial strategy, connected with milestones & KPIs
    • What is VC funding? -  I.e. SNÖ Ventures
    • Sources to finance
    • Impossible Valuations - Guest speaker - Ketil Wig
    • Food, drinks & networking
    2

    INDUSTRY CHALLENGE

     

     

    Digital Oktober

    partners TBD

    • Intro to Partners ventures capital  and space initiatives
    • Pitch your idea
    • Challenge: Future problems to be solved
    3

     MENTOR MEETINGS

     

     

    Digital September/October

    partners TBD 

     

    • Pitch your company
    • Meet the mentors - get valuable feedback
    • Set up follow up meetings
  • Tentativ program physical Nordic Launch:

    1

    MEET MENTORS AND PITCH TRAINING

     

    Monday 24th of Oct.

    @Oslo

    • Pitch your company
    • Meet the mentors
    • Get feedback from mentors and ESA
    • Pitch preperations
    2

    NETWORKING AND PITCH FOR INVESTORS

     

    Tuesday 25th of Oct.

    @Oslo with Space port Norway

    • Attend event, meet industries, startups, investors
    • Pitch at Space Port Norway Global Space Event.
    • Best 10 companies at the main stage. (300-500 global participants)
    3

     INDUSTRY NETWORKING

     

     

    Wednesday 26th of Oct.

    @Oslo with Space port Norway

    • Attend event, meet industries, startups, investors
    • Get challenged by industries
    • Best startup award
  • Meet our Mentors

    Want to become a mentor? Please contact us.

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    CJ (Onno) Verberne

    Business Development

    Nammo

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    Ketil A. Wig

    Financial Engineer

    Remis

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    Rune Sandbakken

    Head of Satellite Communication

    Norwegian Space Agency

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    Amir Rahmani

    Group Supervisor - Multi-agent autonomy

    JPL, NASA

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    Claire Blackett

    Senior Research Scientist, department of Humans and Automation

    IFE (Institute for Energy Technology)

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    Leonor Tarrason

    Research Director - Environmental Solutions

    NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research)

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    Nils Haga

    Manager

    w/ extended solution sales experience

    Kjeller Innovation

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    Axel Moulin

    IP Management Consultant

    Dehns

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    Henry Kongevold

    Chief Engineer​

    Marlink

  • Apply before 19th of September 2021

    The program have a limit of 10 startups. Fee* per startup: 10 000 NOK excl. VAT

    19.09.2021

    Application deadline

    19.10.2021

    Launch of program

    05.11.2021

    Demo day

  • *If your are not able to pay the fee, but still interested in joining the program - let us know in your application, as you can apply for getting your fee covered by SIVA

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    Bergen Carbon Solutions

    "The program gave us access to a valuable network of leading industry partners and experts.

    - And last but not least, it has contributed to the capital raising". Jan B Sagmo - CEO

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    He-3P

    "Jeg setter stor pris på hvor mye tid rådgiverne bruker på oss og sparrer med oss. Jeg har aldri hørt om en inkubator innland eller utland som strekker seg så langt for å hjelpe startups. Utrolig tøft at Kjeller Innovasjon støtter til og med startups som kun er på idé stadiet" Jannicke Mikkelsen, Founder He-3P

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    Solstorm

    "I løpet av de ni intensive dagene fikk vi tilgang til ledende industripartnere, investorer og ressurser innen forretningsutvikling.

    Vi fikk konkrete tilbakemeldinger fra partnerne i programmet, og justerte selskapets utviklingsløp og forretningsplaner for de kommende årene. Programmet ble profesjonelt gjennomført og ga oss tilgang til et verdifullt nettverk av industripartnere og eksperter" - Hans Theodor Johnsen, CTO & Co-Founder

  • Partners

    Want to become a Partner? Please contact us

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