The Code Company
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.codecompany.se
The Fallen Trees project makes satellite-based forest inventory management easy and affordable to an array of target groups. By also serving as a navigation guide and a damage administration system, it offers an efficient, cost-effective alternative to traditional monitoring methods involving helicopters and light aircraft.
Additional info about the service and winning ESA App Challenge, may be found here.
Sally R
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.sally-r.com
Sally R is a Swedish cleantech company that uses space technology to guarantee a healthy indoor air climate and at
the same time save energy in buildings. This is achieved by combining ventilation solution used on earth with technology
used for climate control in space on the International Space Station. The system is controlled by an optimizing algorithm
that guarantees optimal air quality at the lowest possible energy consumption.
Unibap AB
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.unibap.com
Unibap AB provides mission critical SpaceCloud intelligent data mining solutions and visual perception for autonomous
systems. SpaceCloud offer advanced information extraction for space based constellations for Earth Observation, Space
Situational Awareness, Radar, and other commercial and scientific applications.
Unibap’s reliable intelligent vision systems (IVS) provides autonomy to industry 4.0 applications in Logistics (e.g.
Depalletizing, and palletizing, loading- and unloading of machines), industrial automation (e.g. Manipulation,
assembly), Agriculture and Service robotics (e.g. Health analysis of plants, weed identification and removal,
forecasting of harvest, navigation, assisting).
Widefind
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.widefind.se
At Widefind, we are enabling our customers in industry to manage their operations for better efficiency, increased safety, and higher productivity. We do this by offering specialized solutions for positioning in complex industrial environments. Our solutions track our customers’ assets, machines and people with high accuracy in real-time, and enable new applications and better decisions that cut costs and increase outputs.
Featherway Robotics
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Featherway Robotics AB aims to revolutionize the field of automation by introducing the world’s first plug and play robot arm that is smart, simple and safe enough to be managed by factory staff. Equipped with groundbreaking sensor technology and space heritage artificial intelligence the robot implements compact, lightweight and automomous precision systems. This enables a wide range of exciting opportunities both inside and outside of the robotic cell.
Geografiska Informationsbyrån
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.eomapper.com or www.geografiskainformationsbyran.com
eoMapper uses satellite imagery and smart data analysis so that farmers, landowners and land managers can easily get
an overview over their land. The correct actions can be put in the right place at the right time. Forestry can go directly
to the insect damaged stocks, timber buyers can identify the woodland that is mature for harvesting and farmers can
fertilize where it is most beneficial. eoMapper create value and improve profitability with detailed decision support. Try
out eoMapper and read more about it at our blog.
APR Technologies
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.aprtec.com
APR Technologies is a global supplier of leading edge products for thermal management on spacecrafts, airplanes
and automotive systems. The company was founded in 2011. The headquarters is located in the town of Enköping,
Sweden, one hour drive from Arlanda airport and the Swedish capital Stockholm. APR Technologies United States
partner is located in Seattle, Washington.
The facilities in Enköping hold cleanrooms, chemistry lab, electronics lab, laser lab, micro welding lab, mechanical
workshop and office space, for advanced product development, advanced integration plus testing.
Offered products are either passive or active and we have several ”no-moving-parts”-solutions, for longer lifetime, low power consumption and minimum vibrations.
Schvung Ride
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.equilab.horse
We enable equestrians to track their progress, connect to their team and organise their riding. After each training
they get insights linked to their their gait distribution, stride, beat, turns and even if they have not performed the training
by themselves they get instant access to the information.
Equilab helps equestrians take control over their training and adapt it to reach new heights! Soon a sensor will enable
riders to track their riding during competitions as well which will help them score even higher points when competing.
Gemometrics
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.gemometrics.info
Gemometrics is a startup that have developed a new technique for identifying minerals, and is aimed primarily against the mining and exploration industry. The equipment can be complemented with satellite receiver and TPS equipment which allows a precise positioning, the technology can also be used to locate and measure the geostructural hazardous areas in mines and quarries and thereby improving the safety of both personnel and machinery.
NCI Sports Tracker
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.nci-ab.com
New Century Information AB (NCI) have developed an innovative and highly accurate platform in the area of "High Precision Outdoor Tracking". The platform is mobile and can be used for a variety of specialized or customized applications in all outdoor environments, sports or industry that requires detailed and advanced positioning data in real time. The focus is real-time positioning of moving objects in live television production, graphical integration and analysis of collected data.
Sol-ionics
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.sol-ionics.com
Sol-ionics AB is an innovative company that provides tribo-chemical solutions for a wide range of lubrication systems. Their patented technology (in Sweden, U.S.A., Japan, China, Russia), building on recent innovations, uses unique properties of ionic liquids to enhance lubrication. The technology is designed for a wide range of tribo-materials and improves energy efficiency and enhances conservation of natural resources. Sol-ionics AB delivers a broad range of novel halogen-free and hydrolytically stable ionic liquids for lubrication and other applications. Their ionic liquids are based on halogen-free anions that are environmentally benign and provide high performance.
CyStellar
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.cystellar.com
CyStellar is a big-data analytics and decision support company. Through its cloud-based data fusion platform, CyStellar improves data driven decision making and predictive analytics for the precision agriculture, logistics and insurance sector. CyStellar’s cloud-based solutions integrate geo-referenced information from a variety of sources including satellite imagery, drone-based surveillance, weather forecasts, ground-based IoT sensors, and other
social, societal, political, and economic information in order to provide actionable intelligence for data intensive organizations to maintain their competitive advantage. On top of its platform, and by exploiting the power of machine learning, big data and predictive analytics, CyStellar layers several domain specific decision support tools and provides the following dedicated solutions:
AgTech software solutions for precision agriculture, crop management, variable-rate irrigation and fertilization, and pest management.
FoodTech solutions for food safety and traceability using blockchain, remote sensing and IoT technology.
InsurTech solutions for insurance risk assessment and modeling, fraud detection, damage assessment, claim adjustment and claim payouts.
VULTUS
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.vultus.se
Vultus is enabling waste free farming through space technology. We are using satellite data and prescriptive analytics to give farmers, around the world, actionable recommendations about the varying conditions within their fields and nutrient needs of their specific crops. Our main product - nitrogen recommendations, can reduce fertilizer usage by up to 40%. This, in turn, improves crop health and soil quality as well as reduces environmental cost of farming.
Fourth State Systems
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.fourthstatesystems.se
Fourth State Systems is developing new technology for transcutaneous blood gas monitoring, i.e., measurements of the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in blood and tissue through the skin. Such analysis is important in many branches of medicine, and vital for modern neonatal care. Still, current systems suffer from considerable technological problems, and can even cause pain and injury to the patients. They will solve these issues by using technology that they initially developed for planetary exploration, more precisely to look for life on Mars. By doing so, they will not only improve the quality of modern neonatal care, but also be able to offer the method to other groups of patients to whom it is currently unavailable.
PASQ Space Qualification
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.pasq-space.com
Will your product work in space?
PASQ help companies in the space sector improve mission success rates. By providing independent testing and qualification services PASQ evidence whether products sent into space are likely to operate as intended or if there is a risk of malfunction. This helps customers optimise their product design, making it more attractive in the market.
PASQ offers end-to-end services covering several test domains including radiation, thermal, mechanical and EMC.
Centropy
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.centropy.se
Centropy AB is developing new cooling technologies primarily for electronic equipment as processors, power electronics or laser diodes. By using the properties of extremely thermally conducting carbon-based materials in a new and efficient way, heat sinks and heat exchangers can be made significantly smaller compared to current metallic solutions. This gives the customers new possibilities to manufacture smaller, more light weight and higher performing electronic equipment which in turn can be used in, for instance, vehicles, aeroplanes, medical equipment or consumer electronics.
Greenlytics
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.greenlytics.io
Leveraging data for the transition of the power industry by unlocking latent value in data and turning it into actionable insights. Greenlytics provide power forecasts and risk/profit optimised trading support for utility companies as well as industries. Using our forecasting and optimisation platform our customers can reduce their energy bill, reduce their carbon footprint and become increase energy independence and security.
Skyqraft
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.skyqraft.com
Skyqraft provides affordable infrastructure inspection by using unmanned airplanes and machine learning to automate the inspection of power grids. Our methods of inspection are completely data driven with our aerial platforms acting as the source of data. Our methods of inspection emphasize on safety, sustainability and grid uptime, factors which are critical for the energy services industry.
The Skyqraft Team; David Almroth, Sakina Turab Ali & Umar Chughtai
Mooringo
Visit: www.mooringo.com
More space at sea. Mooringo makes it possible for boaters to find vacancy in marinas and anchorages all over the world based on satellite data. The Mooringo app also allows any sailor to notify fellow yachtsmen when own berth is vacant to be used as bookable destination. To local organizations, Mooringo provides satellite- and user data on coastal boating activity for planning future sustainable tourism and environmental protection of sensitive shallow water areas.
Arctic Space Technologies
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.arcticspacetech.com
Arctic Space Technologies AB is offering cloud based satellite data handling solutions for satellite and ground station operators. Cloud based ground station operations make antenna systems more configurable and economical, and increase the antenna usage time significantly. Data services such as satellite data compression and storage makes the radio frequency bandwidth utilization more efficient enabling higher data rates. On top of that the Space2Cloud connector combines cloud services offered by AWS and Google with the incoming satellite data enabling the utilization of powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, which can be used for anomaly detection and autonomous satellite operations.
Deep Forestry
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.deepforestry.com
Deep Forestry AB has built a drone that flies below the canopy of commercial forests, in-between the trees. The drone builds large-scale color 3D point clouds of entire forests. These 3D point clouds are used to determine critical information for the production and harvest of bio-based forestry products. The company is building a fully autonomous turn-key platform that will collect immense point clouds of commercial forests globally. Deep Forestry AB hopes to leverage this big-data in an effort to significantly improve the mapping capabilities of remote sensing orbital satellite platforms worldwide.
Eningo
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Eningo increases the safety of hidden infrastructure by turning unutilized GPS data into user friendly visualization tools. Thus, saving network owners billions in maintenance costs and increasing efficiency at construction sites.
PROCADA
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.procada.se
Pioneering technologies for a future of sustainable manufacturing
Procada provides technical solutions for efficient use of Additive Manufacturing in fabrication of functionally optimized and lightweight metal structures. Their products unlock new business opportunities to leverage AM in previously unexploited areas and enable substantial reduction in material utilization, lead time and production cost.
Procada further offer new possibilities to weight reduction, higher operating temperatures and longer service life, all of which are key to reducing the environmental impact in e.g. aviation.
Procada are also passionate about bringing metal AM to in-space applications as they believe that on-demand-printing capability will be essential to future explorations beyond the lower earth orbit.
I-CONIC Vision
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.i-conicvision.com
I-CONIC Vision is a Stockholm-based start-up developing software to create real-time 3D and 4D models from satellites and drones. One example is the possibility to generate 3D (stereo) vision, as well as to make measurements like height, volume, etc, from ‘normal’ 2D video. This functionality is called Video Stereoscope. Another example is to create Digital Surface Models and Orthomosaics from satellite video. All of it can be processed in real-time.
BAETES Technologies
Visit: www.baetes.com
Baetes are building a 3D-scanning technologies for brands to showcase products online and in the webshop in a much more detailed and interactive way in 3D which increases online sales. In order to develop systems that are robust and flexible the requirements hold a high standard. The potential to use space technological components are high for usage, packaging, and mounting. Technological components for 3D technology are used in space systems and space applications where the standards are high for mechanical structures and for flexible parts that are used in satellites.
Spacept
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: www.spacept.com
By enhancing satellite imagery with its unique AI solution, Spacept can help secure infrastructure quickly, affordably and without any CO2 emissions.
Global warming is causing mega-fires and storms to disrupt essential energy infrastructure such as powerlines. Expensive inspections with helicopters and drones can no longer keep pace with the exponentially increasing demand.
Spacepts software platform uses computer vision and machine learning to process Earth observation satellite data of infrastructure to enable safer, more efficient and sustainable operation and maintenance.
Earthbanc
Visit: www.earthbanc.io
Earthbanc is a climate fintech & space-tech firm that enables individuals and organizations to offset their carbon footprint, with AI-driven satellite metrics to make better financial and climate mitigation decisions. They provide enhanced carbon offsets to organisations by bundling up precise metrics on reforestation, avoided deforestation, regenerative agriculture, agro-forestry and renewable energy projects. Their mission is to make it easy for corporates, financial & banking institutions, fund managers, governments and individuals to support nature based solutions and mitigate against runaway climate change. Their vision is for the global economy and the banking and finance system to shift rapidly to 100% green, enabling a transition to a fully regenerative economy.
Percyroc
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Visit: percyroc.se
Percyroc is offering a solution to increase up to 400% of the manufacturing throughput time of carbon fiber composites. They are tailoring their offer for the aerospace market where quality control is paramount. At the same time, they are reducing energy consumption by 90% which is an important contribution to energy and emissions savings. To do so, they are using up to hundreds of microwave generators based on solid-state amplifiers and machine learning algorithms implementing a focused heating process using many solid-state amplifiers controlled by real-time feedback.
Fureho
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Fureho designs and manufactures innovative 3D composite material solutions using carbon, ceramic, etc. fibres to meet the advanced mechanical and thermal requirements of the space industry. These materials, called Noobed Fabrics and Noobed Composite Materials, offer a lightweight and strong alternative for many metallic parts and components. Use of Noobed Materials can enable space missions to reduce dead-weight, optimise constructions, and thus increase payload of crucial systems and equipment to enlarge the scope of each mission. These benefits also translate to reduced fuel/energy consumption, lowered emissions and toxic waste, and cost savings for the space industry.
PandionAI
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
PandionAI is a startup company increasing safety and transparency in society by securing your need for timely information. They deliver critical intelligence directly to you, when you need it and in a useful form, to solve your problem. PandionAI uses unique AI-based image interpretation onboard a new satellite constellation to give you an unmatched rapid response to answer your information challenges. Information relevant, accessible, and adapted to your decision-making and ready for further actions.
porkchop
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
porkchop is a Stockholm-based space company with the goal of establishing an interplanetary economy.
They are developing reusable in-space logistics vehicles which will make it easier and faster to deploy satellite constellations, perform last-mile deliveries in orbit, and inspect client satellites.
Remos
New Space is a fast growing industry sector, and today, there are more satellite-based applications than ever. But for many companies, the high cost of basebands is prohibitive for their development and upcoming launch. Remos’ vision is to help emerging space companies manage their assets cost-efficiently, by replacing bulky communication hardware with future-proof software and integrations.
Norbite
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Norbite up-cycles plastic waste into healthy food solutions by means of an insect-based biorefinery.
Our solution is based on the extraordinary capacity of one insect to digest common plastic, and we have developed a technology that enables the insects to perform at the industrial scale. At the end of the transformation we obtain the products specifically suitable for food, feed and organic farming, covering thus all the aspects of a healthy food production.
Very interesting on Earth, our solution shows even more of its potential in the scarce Space environment and therefore is suitable for providing food during the long-distance space trips and for the extra-terrestrial settlements.
Nordic MicroAvionics
ESA BIC Sweden Alumni
Nordic MicroAvionics AB offers microsystem-based technologies for aerospace, defense and new space sector. Today, CubeSats lack an efficient propulsion system for finer orientation control and longer mission durations. Our solution addresses these needs by integrating a high-performance microsystem-based propulsion system into the CubeSats. Microsystem technology enables small devices through microfabrication that allows efficient and cost-effective systems. Our goal is to expand the microsystems-based technologies to a wider market that would strengthen the defense and aerospace sector in Sweden.
Monava
www.monava.io
Avalanches, rock falls and landslides claim the life of more than 100 people in the European Alps yearly as well as causing multiple millions of EUR in cost on infrastructure damage and delays. Monava offers a solution that with a seismic sensor system will detect these types of disasters in real time so that rescue teams and local authorities will be notified immediately to avoid accidents. By the use of satellite earth observation data Monava gather crucial snow information as well as critical validation data for their AI-algorithms.
Hydromars
www.hydromars.eu
Hydromars develops a circular water system for long-term space voyages. A circular water system is a necessary pre-condition for deep space missions.
Lumeo Technology
www.lumeotech.com
LumeoTech aims to bridge humans and technology in the physical space. They develop novel attachment interfaces for wearable electronics and e-textiles that offers the freedom to attach anything anywhere. Their vision is a seamless wearable experience for human well-being on Earth and beyond.
Green Emissions
www.greenemissions.farm
Through simple buy and sell mechanics, GreenEmissions teams up businesses, or people seeking to reduce their carbon footprint, with farmers, whose land and vegetation and crops bind CO2.
Their platform allows the purchase of secure contracts, powered by blockchain technology. GreenEmissions offers a way to invest in farmers around the globe, and as their crops grow, your emissions are offset. Satellite monitoring keeps track of the vegetation's development, progressively paying them according to the contract.
Vimotek
www.wimotek.space
Provides off-the-shelf machine vision and motion control solutions for proximity navigation, situational awareness, docking, inspections, visual guided robotics for small and nano satellites and rovers. Vimotek develops multi-spectral (VIS+NIR+LWIR) smart cameras with sensor fusion and edgeAI image processing inside. They can offer a complete solution with HW and SW. Customer’s application SW could be uploaded on-the-fly and run on high power OBC with edge AI accelerators inside. Easy integration into any platform.
Primover Technologies
Primover Technologies AB develops a new type of electric propulsion system for a wide range of satellites and applications.
Based on a new technological approach, their propulsion systems will offer the unique advantages of a radically increased thrust density (and thus savings in volume and mass), propellant flexibility, increased durability, and high-power scalability, realized with cost-effective product design.
Their products will allow customers to design satellites with much lower launch and propellant costs, and more efficient use of internal volumes. With these improvements in thruster durability, new opportunities arise for space exploration, logistics, and atmosphere-breathing applications.
TeraSi
www.terasi.io
TeraSi AB is a spin-off from KTH Royal Institute of Technology which develops highly miniaturized components for use in challenging wireless applications above 60 GHz. TeraSi's technology greatly reduces component size and weight without sacrificing performance in a scalable platform, delivering maximum SWaP-C to end users in the wireless, radar and space sectors. TeraSi's mission is to enable the next generation of wireless technology at scale, both on Earth and in space.
CarbonAct
CarbonAct accelerates the adoption of sustainable agriculture by enabling farmers to earn an additional income for improving soil health on farmland, through using an automated system to monitor and verify soil carbon uptake.
The satellite data analysis and state-of-the-art quantification models employed, significantly reduce verification costs and accurately track changes in soil carbon. By monitoring agricultural land on a global scale, farmers in any part of the world are empowered to participate on the carbon credit market, enhance their soil health, and mitigate climate change.
Integrating advanced scientific research on farming practices with proprietary quantification models, CarbonAct offer stakeholders on the voluntary carbon market and GHG accounting industry an unprecedented opportunity to reliably verify changes in soil carbon uptake on farms, at a fraction of current costs - unlocking a new supply chain of high-quality removal credits.