Partners
Together with these first-class partners, SBIC Noordwijk inspires entrepreneurs to transfer technologies or data from the area of space into successful businesses. Partners play a key role in our space business community. Want to get to know any of our partners? Meet them in a partner-in-residence session; click the button below.
If you are interested to partner with SBIC, plan a meeting here!
SBIC Noordwijk offers four kinds of partnerships. Read below the details on each of them.
Community Partner
Community partners connect with the SBIC space business community. This is the most diverse form of partnership option. Anyone can be a community partner, if it fits the needs of the community of course. It mostly involves offering services to the rest of the businesses – but it can be anything really. This kind of partnership gives our community flavour, and lots of it!
Perks of becoming our community partner
- Connect to our extensive space business network
- Offer your services to our space business community
- Host a workshop and/or other activity at SBIC
- Receive an invitation to all our network events
- Join the online Slack community with 100+ space business people
- Option to get your business promoted through multiple SBIC channels
- Be associated with the thriving and innovative industry of space
Incubation Partner
Incubation partners offer necessary business and/or financial support to startups in the ESA BIC Noordwijk programme.
Perks of being our incubation partner
- Join the bi-annual meetings of ESA BIC Noordwijk’s Tender Evaluation Board
- Get to know ESA BIC startups via initial meeting at start of incubation
- Get involved in the pre-incubation trajectory, the Ignition Programme
- Host an info session/masterclass at SBIC
- Use of flex desk in the co-working space at SBIC Noordwijk
- Connect to our extensive space business network
- Offer your business and/or finance services to our space community
- Join the online Slack community with 100+ space business people
- Receive an invitation to all our network events
- Option to get your business promoted through multiple SBIC channels
- Be associated with the thriving and innovative industry of space
Media Partner
Media partners offer communication support to spread awareness of the programmes managed by SBIC Noordwijk. This can be a cooperation that brings mutually beneficial publicity.
Perks of being our media partner
- Get focused content written by SBIC for your website and/or publication featuring the innovations of ESA BIC startups
- Opportunity for you to submit relevant use cases/press releases to be uploaded to SBIC website or as challenges in competitions/events
- Share your expertise as speaker, jury member and/or offer a prize to competition winners
- Connect to our extensive space business network
- Join the online Slack community with 100+ space business people
- Receive an invitation to all our network events
- Option to get your business promoted through multiple SBIC channels
- Be associated with the thriving and innovative industry of space
Technical Partner
Technical partners offer high-level technical support to the ESA BIC incubatees. This technical support is of utmost importance to the startups as it helps them realise a physical product and solution, which is a mandatory requirement of the incubation programme.
Perks of being our technical partner
- Offer technical expertise to the ESA BIC startups and receive compensation via SBIC Noordwijk (max. €5000)
- Offer a paid technical validation expert session during the Ignition Programme
- Connect to our extensive space business network
- Join the online Slack community with 100+ space business people
- Receive an invitation to all our network events
- Option to get your business promoted through multiple SBIC channels
- Be associated with the thriving and innovative industry of space
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What our partners say
Working with startups is also valuable to us, because we believe they can help us to innovate. Not only on a technical level, but also in terms of business models. For ESA BIC startups, the technical partnership with SBIC Noordwijk means we can offer support in: design, development & verification of spacecraft components or equipment; assembly, integration & test facilities and services; and consultancy for space related projects.
We offer the SBIC community access to all kinds of academic experts through the collabwith platform. Likewise, the SBIC community helps us and our members to expand their knowledge about space research developments.
We love collaborating with entities like SBIC Noordwijk that work with young, entrepreneurial and tech-savvy people. This way we stay young, innovative and flexible as well. We see this technical partnership as an opportunity to work together and share knowledge, aiming for a win–win situation.
For the SBIC community, we ensure that startups and entrepreneurs can move forward. We stand for a direct, low-threshold, informal relationship, where knowledge and expertise go hand in hand with humour and job satisfaction – whatever the task. Space is an innovative industry, which means that legislation is not necessarily written for today’s practices. Nevertheless, as a lawyer you must be able to give the right legal advice within that framework. From us, this requires a flexible and innovative attitude.
Join our space business community
Discover all possibilities and make an appointment with Martijn Leinweber or Rianne van der Poel