Let us introduce you to one of our ESA BIC Sweden Alumni's - The Code Company and its CEO Anders Wihlborg!
What does your company do and what’s the space connection?
Code Company is an award-winning ESA incubator startup focusing on turning new space data into valuable earth insights.
How and when did your startup journey begin?
We won the 2014 Copernicus Masters App Challenge with our application Fallen Trees, a service to detect forest storm damages.
Which obstacles have you met and how have you handled them?
Our main obstacles have been finding economic development resources and co-development partners. We handle it by bootstrapping and making the service more generic from start.
What have you gained by being an incubatee at ESA BIC Sweden?
Being an incubatee and now an alumni is a great door opener when approaching new clients.
Why do you think others should apply to ESA BIC Sweden?
The incentives and support from EBS is a great start for any aspiring space entrepreneur. Is it possible to apply twice?
What do you think about the space market - what’s happening now and how will it change?
With more private actors and growing numbers of Copernicus satellites, new opportunities for the market opens up in a rapid pace. We await the soon approaching launch of Sentinel-1C, replacing the lost Sentinel-1B a few years ago. It will bring higher temporal resolution to free radar images and will boost our forest change detection service.
Find out more about The Code Company: https://codecompany.se/