Accelerating growth in new and emerging space markets
What is ESA Marketplace?
The ESA Marketplace accelerates the growth of space businesses across all technology domains — upstream and downstream — driving European commercial excellence. The programme builds on ESA’s extensive technology development efforts to strengthen the global market presence of European technologies and services.
What support is available?
Companies with bold growth ambitions and market-ready technologies (TRL 7+) can unlock tailored support through the ESA Marketplace in the following ways:
Enhancing Visibility and Credibility
- Showcasing new products and services to scale up businesses
- Sharing technical industry insights across the ESA community to support potential future adoption in ESA missions
Boosting Customer Acquisition
- Supporting the rollout of new services/products
- Building strategic commercial partnerships
- Accessing global market opportunities
Accelerating Time-to-market
- Speeding up the technical demonstration in an operational environment (TRL 9)
- Building strategic commercial partnerships
- Shortening time-to-market
Attracting Private Investment
- Unlocking equity and debt investment opportunities by providing stable scalable revenue streams to Marketplace companies
- Leveraging ESA Investor Network partnerships to multiply growth funding to companies
Who is ESA Marketplace for?
The ESA Marketplace is designed for scalable businesses seeking to expand their operations and strengthen their market presence. It targets high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) products and services ready for commercial deployment.
Please note that applications are only accepted from legal entities based in ESA Member States that support this component of ScaleUp.
How to apply
For more information, please contact scaleup_invest@esa.int