Space Ventures Investors

What Space Ventures Investors does

Space Ventures Investors Limited (SVI) is a private UK-incorporated investment company founded in 2014 by Simon Drake and Kevin Mac Gowan. The firm specialises in space-focused investing, providing retail and high-net-worth (HNW) shareholders from North America, Europe, and Australia with portfolio exposure to the space sector. It operates a hybrid revenue model that combines capital returns from a portfolio of early-stage European and US space startups, public-equity positions in listed space companies, and fee-based advisory services alongside its proprietary Space Stocks and Funds research platform. The firm maintains offices in London (HQ), Frankfurt, and Paris, operates with a headcount of 1–10, and describes its operating posture as a "low-cost venture."

The firm's core products are research and analytical tools centred on the proprietary Strategic Space Value Chain (SSVC) framework, supplemented by the SFER assessment tool and the Space Stocks and Funds platform. It also runs an internal European Space Policy LLM Chatbot and applies machine learning for lunar terrain analysis (titanium and iron concentration mapping). Active portfolio holdings include Latitude, the Lunar Resources Registry, the European Light Lunar Lander (ELLLa) joint venture with the Berlin Space Consortium, and a Space Commodities Exchange, alongside listed market positions in Rocket Lab, Intuitive Machines, ispace, Firefly Aerospace, Voyager Technologies, and Eutelsat Group. SVI also operates a DBA, "European Space Ventures Investors," and co-founded European Space Ventures AG (ESV) in Frankfurt.

Revenue mechanics blend unrealised/realised equity returns, advisory fees charged to space founders, and subscription or licensing revenue from its research platform. Two portfolio exits were recorded in Q1 2024 — SpaceSense.ai (merged with xFarm) and VAKE (acquired by Kongsberg). The firm holds an MOU with Thales Alenia Space's Space Business Catalyst (signed September 2024) and has flagged a planned European Space Bond issuance for Q4 2026.

Name

Space Ventures Investors

Legal name

Space Ventures Investors Limited

Website

https://spaceventuresinvestors.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Space Ventures Investors Limited is a UK-based private investment firm founded in 2014 that provides retail and HNW shareholders with diversified exposure to space-sector equities, early-stage space startups, and proprietary space-research tools across European and US markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Space Venture Capital and Investment Management

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Sector-Focused Venture Capital (Vertical Specialists) (FSANAAAD)

Keywords

• Space venture capital
• Early-stage space investing
• Lunar resources investing
• Space equity research
• Space portfolio management

Headquarters

HQ city

Frankfurt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Equity Investment Returns: SVI actively develops and funds space-focused businesses, investing in, incubating, and co-founding innovative space companies. Returns are generated through equity appreciation, exits, and value creation in the space portfolio companies.
2. Space Investing Advisory Services: SVI offers advisory services including concept analysis, technology roadmap development, business modeling, financing roadmap planning, market research, marketing strategies, and campaign execution. Services range from workshopping concepts to research, pitching, launches, and campaigns.
3. Space Stocks and Funds Research Platform: SVI launched a research platform (SpaceStocksFunds.com) for space stocks and funds, offering reviews, share price charts, and analysis of Space Stocks of varying sizes, Space Funds and ETFs, pre-IPO opportunities, private companies, and crowd-funding ventures. Revenue model not explicitly stated but platform-based research offering.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels14 records

Core offering

Space Ventures Investors is a shareholder-driven investment company that builds and manages an evolving portfolio of early-stage European and US space companies across verticals such as Earth observation, launch, lunar resources, and space commodities. It leverages proprietary research tools (including the Strategic Space Value Chain) and an extensive European space network to source, fund, incubate, and co-found innovative space ventures, while offering shareholders transparent, portfolio-based access to space investments often overlooked by institutional funds.

Product overview

Space Ventures Investors operates as a space-focused investment company offering portfolio-based investing in early-stage European and US space startups. The company provides proprietary research tools including the Strategic Space Value Chain for mapping space verticals, manages joint ventures such as Lunar Resources Registry (moon mapping and governance), European Light Lunar Lander (ELLLa) for lunar exploration, and Space Commodities Exchange for orbital infrastructure. Through its subsidiary European Space Ventures AG, it focuses on European space sovereignty investments. The company also operates a Space Stocks and Funds research platform and maintains a portfolio of investments across launch services (Latitude, Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace), lunar missions (Intuitive Machines, ispace), orbital infrastructure (Voyager Technologies/Starlab, Above Space), communications (Eutelsat Group), and downstream Earth observation (BirdsEyeView, WeGAW, SpaceSense.ai, VAKE), having completed exits from SpaceSense.ai and VAKE in Q1 2024.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Space Commodities Exchange: An enabler for space commodities trading, from re-fuelling satellites to supplying moon bases with commodities and forward-ordering minerals from asteroids.
• Space Stocks and Funds

Products and services

• SVI Investment Product (Space Ventures Investors shareholder investment) A shareholder-driven investment vehicle through which retail, high-net-worth, and corporate investors can invest in SVI to gain diversified exposure to SVI's evolving portfolio of early-stage space companies across Earth observation, launch, lunar resources, and space commodities. Access is gated by KYC/AML due diligence aligned with UK Financial Conduct Authority standards, with U.S. Non-Accredited Investors eligible via a simple questionnaire, and includes 1-on-1 contact with SVI's co-founders.
• Space Investing Advisory Services Advisory services offered to space companies and investors covering concept analysis, technology roadmap development, business modelling, financing roadmap planning, market research, marketing strategies, and campaign execution. Engagements range from workshopping early-stage concepts through to research, pitching, launches, and full business development campaigns.
• Strategic Space Value Chain SVI's proprietary research tool used to map and monitor the growth of space verticals and to plot what will be in demand next. Covers commercial space activities between Earth and geo-synchronous orbit (with focus on low Earth orbit and smaller satellites) and long-term commercial operations on the Moon and Near Earth Asteroids.
• Space Stocks and Funds Research Platform A public research platform (SpaceStocksFunds.com) providing reviews, share price charts, and analysis of space stocks across sizes, space funds and ETFs, pre-IPO opportunities, private companies, and crowd-funding ventures, with filtering by technology, reach, and country.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully invested in several operational earth observation startups, one emerging launch company, plus early-stage Lunar Resources, Lunar Landers, and Space Commodities ventures.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• European Space Ventures AGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025European Space Ventures AG (ESV) was formed by the founders of Space Ventures Investors Ltd (SVI). ESV is a dedicated Space Investing Company based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, focusing on Space, Deep Tech, and Defence sectors within Europe. Simon Drake is also CEO of ESV. SVI and ESV share the Strategic Space Value Chain strategy. ESV is developing a European Space Bond available in Q4 2026.
• Lunar Resources RegistrycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLunar Resources Registry (LRR) is a joint venture created and managed by SVI. LRR maps the Moon and maintains online transparent maps including Open Lunar Registry for Education, Open Lunar Registry for Governance, and Commercial Registrations and Planning. LRR participated in ESA Business Incubation Centre in Germany (Feb 2021-Feb 2023). SVI is the first investor in LRR.
• Berlin Space ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBerlin Space Consortium is a joint venture partner with SVI and Lunar Resources Registry in the European Light Lunar Lander (ELLLa) joint venture. The JV agreement is to design, manufacture, launch and operate European Light Lunar Landers.
• Lunar Station CorporationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLunar Station Corporation partnered with Lunar Resources Registry to create 'The Ear' - a Partnership Science Registration for a proposed lunar far-side radio telescope and asteroid observatory research location.
• Orbital TransportsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrbital Transports partnered with SVI in developing the intellectual property underpinning the Space Commodities Exchange (SCX). SCX is a turn-key blueprint for an orbiting space dock and tank system to fuel and support NewSpace economy and CisLunar operations.
• European Space Agency (ESA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLunar Resources Registry participated in ESA Business Incubation Centre in Germany from February 2021 to February 2023. ESA BICs are spread throughout Europe to support innovative space companies. LRR also signed MOU with Thales Alenia Space's Space Business Catalyst in September 2024.
• Thales Alenia Space - Space Business CatalystcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLRR signed MOU with Thales Alenia Space's Space Business Catalyst in September 2024. Thales Alenia Space is an industry leader providing space infrastructure. LRR attended the Thales Alenia Space - Space Business Catalyst Open Day in Turin, Italy.
• Obruta Space SolutionsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSVI signed a MOU with Obruta in 2019 for space debris removal. Obruta Space Solutions is developing tethered-net technology to target space debris and end-of-life deorbiting satellites.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Promus Ventures: Early-stage deep tech and space-focused VC firm investing in space, AI and automation. Overlapping investment themes with SVI (orbital infrastructure, lunar, EO) and a similar early-stage orientation.
• Space Capital: US-based venture firm investing exclusively in space technology across three themes (GPS 3.0, geospatial intelligence, communications). Comparable to SVI as a space-only specialist GP with proprietary research and a portfolio approach.
• Type One Ventures: Space-focused early-stage venture capital firm investing in space startups across launch, EO, comms and in-space services. Comparable stage and sector concentration to SVI.
• Starbridge Venture Capital: Early-stage space and frontier tech investor with a 'pioneer' fund focused on early commercial space. Overlaps with SVI on lunar resources, in-space services and EO themes.
• E2MC Ventures: Space-focused early-stage investment and research firm with proprietary space-financial intelligence and a global investor network. Closely comparable to SVI's combination of investment activity and proprietary research tooling.
• Cosmicapital: Space-focused early-stage investor concentrating on seed and pre-seed rounds in launch, EO and in-space services. Comparable thesis and stage focus to SVI's pre-seed/seed mandate.
• SpaceFund: Space-focused investment platform offering diversified space portfolios to retail and accredited investors via managed funds. Closely comparable to SVI's shareholder-driven, retail-accessible model and research platform approach.
• Seraphim Space: UK-based dedicated space-focused venture capital firm operating dedicated space VC funds and a global accelerator (Seraphim Space Camp). Most directly comparable to SVI in mandate, geography and stage, though larger and structured as traditional funds.

Broad incumbents

• Airbus Ventures: Corporate venture arm of Airbus investing globally across space, mobility and deep tech with proprietary founders' and operating resources. Comparable on space investment mandate but operates with corporate balance-sheet backing and a wider portfolio mandate than SVI.

Regional players

• OTB Ventures: European deep-tech venture capital firm (with an ESA-backed fund) investing in space, autonomous mobility and enterprise AI. Comparable as a European-domiciled space-focused VC, though broader in mandate and larger in fund size.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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M&A

Investments1 record

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