SpaceTec –invest in the Enablers of the Digital Economy
Rainer Horn
Rocketry
Atlas V Launch 18 December 2016 2
Space goes digital and digital players go space
3 OneWeb‘s Vision: 900 Satellites
4
OneWeb‘s Backers: over 2 BN already invested
5 Low – Medium and Geostationary Earth Orbits
MEO >2000 km SatNav GPS, Galileo & Co
LEO
GEO 35,786 km 160 – 2000 km above Equator Earth Observation, Iridium SatCom/TV New Mega Constellations Google/SpaceX, Boeing, OneWeb … International Space Station
6
Commercialisation of Space is rapidly advancing
Traditional Space NewSpace
Institutional Commercial New Business Models Space Space with Commercialisation Potential
Navigation LEO/MEO/GEO GeoInformation, Services: IoT, constellations Launcher Data and Media and Services Internet for All Debris Mitigation Components & Removal Military MSS/ FSS SmallSat and Subsystems Space Activities COM Satellites Systems For SmallSats Satellite Servicing LEO COM Space Science Positioning, Manufacturing in Satellites SmallSat EO Energy from Navigation Microgravity Constellations Space & Timing and Space Traditional EO Satellites New Launch Space Resource Systems Mining Human Space Space Humans Exploration ISS Servicing Space Tourism Habitats to Mars
Established Implemented Started Emerging
7 Space is moving from the world of government procurement and aerospace engineering giants to the world of venture‐capital‐funded startups and business plans that rely on ever cheaper services provided to ever more customers
August 2016 Issue
8
What is new in NewSpace ? Why do private investors engage?
New wave of space entrepreneurs and technology . Tech entrepreneurs bring IT‐industry and market‐driven thinking . Terabytes of Earth Observation satellite data becoming available for free . Near real‐time data acquisition leading to many new applications and business models . Miniaturised satellite design & technology at a fraction of the cost . New satellite design philosophies, platforms, scalability, serial production . Software instead of hardware . Cheaper launches
The Internet of Things (IoT) & Big Data revolution . Industrial IoT require global & high reliability of connectivity and positioning . Big data solutions enable new applications using vast volumes of sat data . Advanced sensors to monitor, control, enhance and automate our world Many US VCs have invested in multiple NewSpace businesses
Bessemer Accion Systems
Planet DFJ
Rocket Lab First Round Capital Exited 11x Skybox
Founders Fund SpaceX
Khosla Spire
Exited RRE Ventures The Climate Corp
Source: „Start‐Up Space“, The Tauri Group January 2016
10
Some VCs have already seen nice exits
Series A : $3M Series B : $18M Series C : $70M EXIT: $ 500 M 31 July 2009 26 July 2010 17 April 2012 July 2014
Draper Associates Draper Associates Investment Khosla Ventures Khosla Ventures Khosla Ventures syndicates per Bessemer Ventures Bessemer Ventures investment round Asset Management “Skybox’s satellites TOTAL $91M Ventures will help to keep CrunchFund Canaan Partners Google Maps accurate Norwest Venture Partners with up‐to‐date imagery”
Employees Stanford Spin‐off 50 200
Return on Investment (IRR) 62% 60% 67%
Achieved Multiple 11x 6x 3x 2017 M&A
Source: Crunchbase, Skybox, Press, SpaceTec Analysis
11 What are the disruptive technology trends? –Space as enabler of digitisation
Industries impacted
Po sit io n in g Mobility
Pre c ision Tim ing Tra n sp o rt Navigation Authentication GeoSatCom Ea rth O b se rva tio n GeoIntelligence Ag ric ulture Re m o te Se n sing Satellite Refueling Ra d a r Se n so rs Manufacturing Lo c a t io n Ro b o tic s CubeSats Re d und a nt De sig n Bro a d c a st Spaceports Sp a c e Technology In-Orbit Maintenance Po we r Syst e m s Disrupts Industries Infrastructure Fa ilsa fe Syste m s Interplanetary Exploration Suborbital Platforms Pre d ic tive An a lysis Magnetic Detection Insura nce High Altitude Balloons Optical Systems Sa te llite C om m unic a tions Autonomous Motion La se r Lin ks Mobile SatCom Se c u rit y Enc ryp tio n Ene rg y & Ubiquitous Connec tivity Re so u rc e s
Advanced positioning through multiple SatNav constellations Positioning . Multiple Navigation Systems allows for unprecedented accuracy and availability . Soon 5 complete constellations: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo (EU), Beidou (CN), Navic (IN) . Unique features of Europes civil global system Galileo . New seamless indoor / outdoor technologies to monitor critical assets GeoIntelligence
Autonomous Motion
Ubiquitous Connectivity Galileo ApplicationsNavigation Graph Applications
14
GeoIntelligence analysing images with big data methods Positioning
. Number of Earth Observation satellites tripling vs last decade . Terabytes of new data sets daily provide enable new data analysis business . Near real‐time and high resolution satellite imagery heralding a new wave of services GeoIntelligence . New modes of data transmission and distribution in the sky, air and on the ground . Leaps in processing, big data and grid computing allowing petabytes to be analysed
Planet Labs to capture image Autonomous of the planet every day with Motion 150 nano‐satellites
Terra Bella to have 24 microsats imaging the world in high resolution 3x a day
Ubiquitous Unprecedented amount of Connectivity EO data free of charge Agriculture near Tubarjal, Saudi Arabia False Colour Image from Satellite Sentinal‐2A, July 2015
16
Sentinel‐3A takes Earth’s temperature
17 Original data Patented downscaling method
18
Example: VanderSat (NL): Soil Moisture Information
GeoIntelligence Turning satellite‐‐derived climate data into valuable information with patented downscaling method. . Deliver global soil moisture information near real‐time on a 100x100m resolution
. Higher granularity irrigation (soil moisture) data, on current and historic data, possibly 2x per day
. Serving insurance, agriculture, land users of all kinds, authorities, weather forecasting etc. Autonomous Motion … powered & enabled by space Positioning
. Commercial user market of UAVs to grow to $ 1.7 B in 2015 . Need for better faster deployment in autonomous and assisted driving . Robotic solutions form key elements of the so‐called “Industrial Internet” . Autonomous vehicles expected by 2020 GeoIntelligence . Artificial intelligence (AI) playing a key role
Acquired by car manufacturer Autonomous consortium to keep strategic enabling Motion capabilities
Experimenting with UAVs, autonomous robots and vehicles Ubiquitous Connectivity
Source: CB Insights –The future of frontier tech
Innovations from space robotics feed into terrestrial solutions Ubiquitous Communications – using the internet layer in the sky Positioning
. New low‐cost constellations for improved connectivity (internet access) in rural areas or underserved markets . Low‐cost, energy efficient, small satellite terminals for M2M and IoT applications GeoIntelligence . Satellite / terrestrial hybrid networks . Improvements in compression techniques and algorithms
Autonomous Motion aims to launch 648 telecommunication satellites by 2020
announced a constellation of 4000 satellites with initial Ubiquitous services to start in 2020 Connectivity
Example Ovinto (Belgium): Monitoring railway assets “Internet of Things”
Positioning & Ubiquitous Supply chain security in unpowered Communication transport units, heavy equipment. Users: petrochemicals, mining industries, food transportation etc. . Reduce cost of ownership and OPEX . Patented solution with 8 year battery . Worldwide coverage through >50 Globalstar Communication Satellites . Designed to operate in extreme conditions . Approved to highest ATEX explosion safety level (zone 1) . Encryption of critical business data
Customers: Satellite connectivity will be key for autonomous drive
Source: TransportEvolved.com, Forbes
24
Europe has a thriving space application eco‐system with many „Valleys“
Large pool of innovation R&D
. R&D base rich and largely untapped for private investments . Reasonable valuations . European governments spend ~€ 9 Bln p.a. on space technologies . Thriving eco‐system with accelerators and incubators . Technology transfer of space‐related IP to other areas 20 ESA Business Incubator Centres 23 Regions in space application competitions Locations of AppCamps Space Financing Chain, Europe and the world
100k USD 500k USD 1‐5 MUSD
Idea Incubation Early Stage Venture Capital Later Stages
Idea and Incubators & Regional funds (DE) Generic Private Venture Capital business plan Accelerators competitions National) National funds (DE) H2020,
Specialised ESA,
Venture Capital Luxembourg Space Fund (e.g.
Networking platforms programmes
2017
Angels & Crowdfunding Corporate VCs Partners Research
EU SME Instrument Commercial Banks SpaceTec
©
26
Contact
Download available: www.spacetecpartners.eu
27 28
Space Tech investments as a new global asset class
. The commercialisation of the space business is rapidly advancing
. New business models at the interface of the space industry and the digital economy
. Application markets: mobility, agriculture, insurance, security, energy, etc.
. NewSpace in the age of Industry 4.0, infrastructure challenges and digitalisation
. Disruptive technology trends
. The entrepreneurial landscape 2015 in Space has been a record year for VC investments in SpaceTech
Mio USD 2'000 60 Seed/Prize/Grant 55 1'800 Venture Number of VCs, Incubators and Accelerators in transactions 50 1'600
1'400 37 40 1'200
1'000 30 1'814 800 19 20 600 20 400 8 6 10 200
180 52 186 160 208 90 21 91 0 80 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: “Start‐Up Space“, The Tauri Group January 2016
30
Technology with scaling potential is sought by Silicon Valley and Asians alike
“NavShoe“ Team of
. R&D Team with IP from DLR . Spin‐off University of Oulu . Spin‐off Univ. Edinburgh Navigation Institute Munich . Uses the earth’s geomagnetic . Online‐to‐offline play . Indoor navigation for field to find locations inside a . Location information Wi‐Fi pedestrians based on multi‐ building or Bluetooth based sensor fusion . Achieves accuracy within two . Significant strategic . 8 People team moved to meters investment Mountain View / CA . > USD 10 M (Round A) . Undisclosed amount . Transaction: ~EUR 8 M
Source: SpaceTec Partners Research
31 American companies are traditionally acquiring proven European companies
. Spanish company with two . Berlin‐based SME with five Deimos satellites (310kg) RapidEye satellites (150kg) . Global imagery archive . Global imagery archive . Acquisition of assets and unit . ~ 100 employees with ~ 50 employees for ~$ 80M . Acquisition price ~ $100M
… and 22 acquisitions of European geospatial companies since 2003 by …
Opportunities through NewSpace US investors engage regularly in Newspace …
US Venture Capital U.S. BBC – “Billionaire Boys Club” . Founders Fund . Elon Musk . Draper Associates / DFJ . Jeff Bezos . Bessemer Ventures . Larry Page & Sergey Brin . Asset Management Ventures . Sir Richard Branson . CrunchFund . Mark Zuckerberg . Canaan Partners . Ansari Family . Norwest Venture Partners . Bill Gates . Khosla Ventures . Paul Allen . In‐Q‐Tel . Yuri Milner . Mithril Capital Management . … . …
34
US investors engage regularly in Newspace …
US Venture Capital U.S. BBC – “Billionaire Boys Club” . Founders Fund . Elon Musk . Draper Associates / DFJ . Jeff Bezos . Bessemer Ventures . Larry Page & Sergey Brin . Asset Management Ventures . Sir Richard Branson . CrunchFund . Mark Zuckerberg . Canaan Partners . Ansari Family . Norwest Venture Partners . Bill Gates . Khosla Ventures . Paul Allen . In‐Q‐Tel . Yuri Milner . Mithril Capital Management . … . …
35 The Silicon Valley has a unique personnel pool and a high attractiveness for talents from all over the world
Share of foreign people born in…
50% Silicon Valley California US
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0% Population Graduates Working age Employed population People employed in population the IT industry
36
Successful NewSpace companies win and retain the best employees by instilling the feeling of being something special…
Importance Stress factor Satisfaction Annual salary in of the job high with the Job first 5 years
Tesla Facebook Facebook Space‐X 92% No. 1 88% 96% 116k$
Space‐X 70% No. 2
Space‐X 73% No. 3
Space‐X 78k$ No. 15
24% 44% 64% 71k$ Adobe Facebook HP Oracle
… In addition the provide pay and benefit packages which incentivize firm loyalty http://www.geekwire.com/2016/payscale‐ratings‐rank‐spacex‐tesla‐low‐salary‐high‐meaningfulness/
Study Page 28 37 The Luxembourg government has shown high ambition and vision in its space activities
38
SpaceTec regularly supports startups (examples)
Strategy Investment Readiness Market Access Funding
Laser terminals air & space GeoIntelligence & machine learning High‐resolution moisture data Hyperlocal maps
The third aircraft Enabling geolocated IoT IoT authentication Data fusion for automated driving
Marine real‐time analytics Safe marine navigation Operating system for IoT Connected space telescopes
Low‐power cm‐positioning for IoT Single‐chip based navigation Locating solutions Mobile app for Outdoor
39 2015 in Space has been a record year for VC investments in SpaceTech
Mio USD 2'000 60 Seed/Prize/Grant 55 1'800 Venture Number of VCs, Incubators and Accelerators in transactions 50 1'600
1'400 37 40 1'200
1'000 30 1'814 800 19 20 600 20 400 8 6 10 200
180 52 186 160 208 90 21 91 0 80 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: “Start‐Up Space“, The Tauri Group January 2016
40