Start-ups incubadas

Aeon–T

Aeon-T offers composite parts manufacturing technology that enables thei ndustrial scale use of these materials in the automotive sector, resulting in reduced operating costs.

In addition, it is a manufacturing solution for certain types of parts for the aerospace sector, where quality is paramount.

Web: aeon-t.com

Ahyres

AHYRES is a company specialized in the development of autonomous aerial systems (UAS) both at Hardware (HW) level, designing electronics, avionics, communications, electric propulsion systems and payloads; and at Software (SW) level, for control, navigation, sensing and fleet management.

AHYRES has two main lines of development: an unmanned aerial helicopter with hybrid propulsion using hydrogen fuel cell for autonomous beyond line-of-sight operations (BVLOS), and a swarm system of small autonomous multirotors.

Web: ahyres.com

Airelectronics develops products to improve the image capture process in the most robust UAV and flight control systems for the aeronautical sectors. Its activities include the productions of autopilots, both for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft weighing between 3 kg and 250 kg.

Its products include: On-board image processing hardware, U-Pilot autopilot and U-Camera payload.

Web: www.airelectronics.es

Anzen is composed of top safety engineers with extensive experience in the whole development of safety analysis for aerospace and defence components and systems. Its team is focused on the quality of their services, and all its engineers have years of experience working as consultants for companies and institutions such as Airbus, Pilatus, Indra or INTA.

Web: www.anzenengineering.com

Auravant offers an all-in-one farm management platform pioneering the concept of precision agriculture, which allows growers and agronomists to remotely manage, control and monitor their fields with the use of satellite imagery. It digitalizes different areas of a field, identifies the variability of the land in order to choose the best strategy to maximise yield, reduce costs and lessen the environmental impact.

The company develops sensor system technology to monitor environmental pollution and artificial or highly polluted atmospheres. It has also developed an autonomous system based on infrared sensors to monitor the concentration of various gases and to successfully establish pollution abatement action plans.

Web: www.attdevices.com

Axter Aerospace offers innovation in the development of electric and hybrid solutions, including energy storage systems for aeronautics, aviation and electric vehicles.

The products developed under the incubation by ESA BIC Madrid Region include: a hybrid propulsion system, high power batteries and an smart programmable real-time battery management system (BMS), with integrated Wi-Fi.

Web: www.axteraerospace.com

Technological innovation in the forestry sector for improved management of forest resources. NIRs technology applications (Near infrared Spectrometry), environment and forest tools based on satellite imaginery, generation and analysis of environmental information acquired by UAVs, App development and enviroment and forest geographical information.

Web: boscalia.org

The company uses autonomous drones and software instead of manned aircrafts to inspect and calibrate navigational aids and airport systems & infrastructures (such as PAPI, ILS or VOR). The product is a disruptive solution for the aviation industry that has already been operated in a niportant number of airports of many countries to reduce costs and improve safety.

Web: www.canarddrones.com

Cedrion designs and manufactures devices that create cold atmospheric plasma from air. This plasma can on the one hand, move the air, creating an ionic wind that we direct with the desired geometry in a very efficient way for cooling. On the other hand, it can be used to inactivate virus, bacteria, molds, spores, and even biofilms. For ambient air purification, or surface disinfection.

Web: cedrion.es

Coolx is a Climate Tech startup that provides data to importers and exporters to measure the environmental impact of coffee and cocoa plantations. They do this by analyzing all types of satellite images. Image processing and data collection are carried out in an automated manner through our own algorithms based on artificial intelligence. In this way, they help companies comply with the European regulations for deforestation-free products by which exporters, importers and traders of coffee and cocoa who want to operate in the European market are obliged to demonstrate that the products they sell do not come from deforested areas.

Web: www.coolx.earth

Monitoring infrastructures from space: bringing satellite-data to decisiopn-making. Detektia has developed EyeRADAR, a competitive infrastructure-monitoring tool that generates early warnings based on latest satellite RADAR technologies and Artificial Intelligence. EyeRADAR offers up-to-date and historical deformation of infrastructures at any point of the planet with millimeter accuracy and without the need of in situ instrumentation. This satellite-based early warning system is easily integrated with the 4D digital model of the infrastructure and data is transferred at all stages of digital infrastruture management (planning, design, construction and maintenance).

Web: detektia.com

Digital Earth Solutions (DES) is a spin-off from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) that, thanks to years of experience in ocean modeling, has developed a unique tool to predict the trajectory of spills, plastics, and individuals at sea with high precision and in record time. During the two years of incubation at ESA BIC, the DES team will expand its tool to model Sargassum algae in the Caribbean Sea to forecast its impact on the coast and support hotels, ports, and authorities in its collection.

Web: digital-earth-solutions.com

The company designs and manufactures high load capacity drones for fire-flighting and precision agricultura, industrial uses or different types of missions.

The services offered include: Support for fir-flighting in day and night operations, precision agriculture services (optimisation of fertilisation and irrigation, monitoring, crop spraying, etc.) and sale of fire-flighting and crop sproying drones (outside Spain), etc

Web: www.drone-hopper.com

Energy related engineering activities. Its project within the ESA BIC program aims to control Wind Turbines and Wind Farms through Space Technology developing a new generation of real-time control. New methods to measure the condition of the turbine main components based on Galileo are also implemented. Control parameters are adapted to reduce loads and optimize performance. With Eolion solutions, current Wind Farms can provide more energy, reducing emissions and contributing to the energy transition.

Web: eolion.es

Eye4Sky Technologies is the first spin-off of INTA. It is a deep-tech startup dedicated to the design and manufacturing of polarization modulators based on liquid crystals. Its sophisticated optical devices are installed on board several ESA/NASA satellites. The technology of polarization modulators based on liquid crystals has the advantage of being highly adaptable and can be configured in a multitude of ways to cover specific needs in multiple areas: astrophysics, earth observation, quantum communications or atomic clocks. The potential of this technology for use in space, including what is known as New Space, is enormous.

Web: www.eye4sky.com

Innovation based on the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies to improve safety and efficiency in activities carried out in open environments.

Services developed: Blind Explorer (sensory guidance for blind people), KYNEO (open programming navigation sensor), SICRA (location system for environments without mobile coverage), GNSSS technology consulting and assistance services.

Web: www.gekonavsat.com

Heatconv produces clean and sustainable energy from an alternative source. Design and development of small electronic devices that recover electrical energy from the energy lost in the form of heat. This system has many applications including consumer electronics, automotive systems, industrial processes or in the aerospace industry.       
Currently, the company is focused on developing a patented modular system that is compatible with current photovoltaic panels and that makes it possible to recover a part of the wasted heat, in turn increasing the energy efficiency of the panels.

Web: www.heatconv.com

Hovering Solutions is focused on the development of smart and small robotics able to fly completely autonomously in underground environments (GNSS- and light- denied areas) and capable to produce high quality 3D digital models of underground scenarios. The solution is applicable in several sectors requiring eventual or regular inspections of underground sites (usually involving high risks for humans) without the need of an operator’s presence, making the process faster, more accurate and safer. Some examples are water distribution networks, hydro-power plants or underground mines. This breakthrough solution is achievable thanks to the development of proprietary technology based on on-board and multi-sensor-based positioning system which provides autonomous navigation capabilities to the aerial robot.

Web: www.hoveringsolutions.com

Hydra Space Systems is a Spanish startup that develops innovative technology and solutions in the space and communications sector. Based in Madrid, we have capabilities throughout the value chain of the space sector where we develop small, affordable and functional satellites, weighing less than 500 grams. Our communications solution is optimized to connect IoT devices in remote areas, ensuring efficiency and low connectivity costs to sectors such as precision agriculture or marine and environmental monitoring, as well as integration with other IoT platforms such as LoRa or 5G. /NB-IoT. Our satellite technology opens the doors to innovation in the space sector, allowing any client or researcher to experiment and innovate in a space environment with costs that are orders of magnitude below other platforms, being able to develop dedicated constellations and infrastructures.

Web: www.hydra-space.com

Development of Engineering Software in different áreas such as Structural Analysis, 3D Visualization, Digitization, and Machine Learning applied to manufacturing processes.Idaero provides also commercial grade solutions fully customizable to clients' methods such as NaxTo suite.

Web: www.idaerosolutions.com

Highly efficient electric propulsion systems for nano and micro satellites and mission analysis studies to optimize the design of the customized propulsion solutions. In order to do so, the Company has have developed ATHENA, a completely modular and scalable propulsion system based on nanofabrication techniques, and ienaiGO/360, a cloud based software which optimizes the design and performance of the thruster. Their business proposition is "Manoeuvring as a service".

Web: ienai.space

Solutions to 3 key challenges of a farmer: limited profitability, loss of time doing manual tasks and poor traceability of farm data. Our solution relies on technology (hardware and software) to digitize the management of the livestock farm and take it to a higher level in terms of productivity and efficiency, resulting in better margins and less dedication. On top of a higher profitability, Ixoriguè’s solution provides farmers with the levers to achieve a higher quality of life and a higher herd traceability through an easy-to-use technology.

Web: www.ixorigue.com

The company Land, Water and Dams, S.L. (LWD), through its MotionSurvey service, offers products and services for the monitoring and historical analysis of structural and ground movements captured from satellites, by means of interferometric synthetic aperture radar signals (InSAR). The other services it offers include dam engineering and safety, hydrological management and hydrometeorology.

Web: www.landwaterdams.com

Focused on solving the most challenging termal issues, Madrid Space provides engineering consultancy services and develops state of the art hardware solutions for the highly dissipative and extremely compact upcoming satellite generation.

Web: www.madridspace.eu

Development of compact, scalable, high energy density micro fuel cell systems to guarantee autonomy and robustness in small satellite missions. By capitalizing on high precision microfluidic technology and widely available raw materials, these systems fulfill all technical needs at competitive prices while avoiding the cyclic degradation of commonly used lithium batteries.

Web: b5tec.com

Nanostine is a spin-off of CSIC devoted to research, development & commercialization of high added value nanoparticles and nanostructured coatings. The fabricated nanoparticles are completely free of ligands on their surface, which makes them especially suitable for applications in different fields, such as the aerospace sector, energy and nanomedicine.

Web: nanostine.com

Company born in the aerospace sector with the aim of reducing direct investment in stock associated with maintenance work, improving the operational availability of fleets. Services provided: a mathematical model for global stock optimisation, implementation of the model in an algorithm, interoperability with databases and other systems (API), implementation with techniques for continuous improvement of capacities.

Web: www.obuu.es

3D optical metrology solutions for the industrial sector. Its systems are based on its proprietary and patented massively parallel laser radar technology, which allow it to make absolute distance measurements without contact or markers, with high precision and speed. The Q1, its first product, is a revolution in the field of metrology of large structures, offering a range of up to 50m with high precision. Data acquisition is fully automatic and can be performed by a single operator, integrating with the main metrology software through interoperable data standards.

Web: ommatidia-lidar.com

Polar Developments implements portable and deployable structures for the installation of photovoltaic energy generation panels that are easy to transport and assemble.

Web: polardv.es

SIMBAD, a Sentinel Data Science Exploitation Platform for the transformation of raw sentinel data into useful scientific end products for use in everyday applications. As a first use case, SIMBAD includes the capability to map and monitor Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Mediterranean Sea.

Web: quasarsr.com

At Radian our goal is to ease access to space. Our contribution to the democratization of space is based on simplifying and streamlining engineering processes, lowering entry barriers to space. We offer a cloud-based agile thermal analysis software for space that allows satellite manufacturers to model the satellite and simulate the orbit to calculate the temperatures to which each of the satellite components will be exposed throughout the space mission.

More than 30 satellites have already been launched to space with our thermal analysis software, and we work with leading space organizations, satellite developers, research centers and universities, including Spire, FOSSA, URJC and INTA amongst others. Our main objective during the incubation in ESA BIC Madrid Region is to validate our processes and further develop our capabilities and features.

Web: radian.systems

Sanzar™ is a Spanish private entity whose sector of activity is aerospace and agro-tech, specifically oriented to the design and integration of aerospace vehicle control systems. We can provide specific control for agile satellites with high angular speeds through a new patented configuration in space, reducing the weight of satellite control and increasing its maneuverability, In the case of air, vehicles will enable them to operate where aircraft are currently limited, increasing maneuverability and allowing them to work in conditions of low or no speed and short takeoffs. In the precision agriculture sector, it markets software for the optimal reduction and recommendation in applying fertilizers using machine learning models, improving the sustainability and yield of crops.

Web: www.sanzar-group.com

Service platforms based on hardware and software elements applied to the Internet of Things (IoT) sector. For that it uses VardiaN (a platform for monitoring operators in dangerous environments) and Pavias (a service for optimising grazing using satellite images).

Web: sensowave.es

Innovative solutions for the industries like the railway using of technologies such as Lidar, Machine Learning, GIS Systems and others, optimising traditional tasks and improving efficiency and safety. Solutions offered: Skylynx (technological solution composed of drones, autonomous bases and image recognition software, i.e. capable of optimising traditional signalling and maintenance tasks).

Web: www.sigma-rail.com

The company offers the automated analysis of satellite images for target location, using its own algorithm and Machine Learning. The technology developed allows: Automated search, location and recognition of targets in the event of a maritime emergency or safety incident, pattern analysis, among others.

Web: www.skansense.com

Development of High Altitude Pseudo Satellites, platforms operating from a fixed position at an altitude of 20 Km, quite above from commercial fligths.

This type of systems are placed between satellites and RPAS, combining the advantages of both and providing an excellent coverage at regional level with high resolution and persistence. Applications are related to territory surveillance, environmental control or atomospheric research.

Development of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) which are unmanned boats for naval applications. Main advantages are continuous operation, elimination of risks for the crews and reduction in operational costs. UTEK’s solutions are focused in high reliability and advanced performances.

Web: www.utek.es

The company focuses on integrating drones with the latest technologies to provide high value services. It is participating with ESA BIC Madrid Region in the OLEO-SENSE project, which focusses on precision agriculture, with the following main objectives: Autonomous airborne RFID sensor data acquisition system; Characterisation of agronomic systems; Big Data and Machine Learning applied to super intensive olive cultivation; and Traceability system based on RFID technology.

Web: www.utw.es

VALAR offers flight dynamics solutions to satellite operators. It was founded in 2021 by Alejandro López, Izan Peris and Roger Martín, with the vision of providing operations services to satellite owners, bridging the gap between satellite launch and manufacturing to accelerate the growth of emerging companies in the space industry. Currently, the company provides flight dynamics services to different satellite owners through software solutions and internal experts that allow companies to operate and maneuver their satellites safely, without the investment in expensive licenses and training for operations staff

Web: www.valar.space

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