Unlocking Space for Investment
Unlocking Space for Investment is ana initiative,programme backed by the UK Space Agency,Agency that aims to catalyse investment to support the growth of the UK space sector.
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Unlocking Space for Investment (USI), an initiative backed by the UK Space Agency, aims to catalyse private sector investment to support the growth of the UK space sector. The programme addresses key barriers to investment through targeted interventions and strategic networking.
Our Goals: Goals are to:
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Enhance Business Readiness: Prepare space businesses for investment
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Strengthen Investor Confidence: Build trust and confidence among
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Expand Financing Options: Explore diverse financing solutions to support growth in the UK space
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Enhance Investor-Business Connections: Foster strong relationships between investors and space
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Our Initiatives are:
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Growth Pathway: Provides tailored investor-readiness training and subsidised advisory services
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Investor Pathway: Attracts new and diverse sources of capital into the UK space sector, offering investors a gateway to a growing market and access to Government-backed opportunities
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Space Investment Network: Facilitates structured engagement through events, roundtables, and a forthcoming public information hub
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UKI2S Space Fund: Publicly backed venture capital fund supporting early-stage space businesses
For further information, questions, or feedback about these programmes, please contact the team at USI@ukspaceagency.gov.uk.
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Updates to this page
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Privacy notice - HTML attachment updated
Update history
2025-10-22 15:55
Growth Pathway Advisory Scheme – HTML attachment updated.
2025-10-06 13:57
Growth Pathway Programme – HTML attachment updatedGrowth Pathway Advisory Scheme – HTML attachment updated
2025-09-25 15:30
Added Growth Pathway content, Growth Hub and Advisory Scheme.
2025-08-28 16:04
Added information in Our InitiativesAdded Investor Pathway Programme informationUpdated privacy notice
2025-06-18 10:13
Privacy notice – HTML attachment updated
2025-06-09 15:34
Removed questionnaire section as this has now closed.
2025-05-15 14:03
Updated page copy, added Industry Questionnaire for Industry Support Programme sectionUnlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview – HTML attachment created2024/25 Programme Delivery – new title for HTML attachment
2025-04-03 09:56
Link to Unlocking Space for Investment Network sign up form added.Updated Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview HTML
2025-03-25 16:50
Added information on Space Investment Pitch Day and Space Investment Day.Updated Privacy notice
2025-01-16 14:59
Updated privacy notice.
2024-11-15 08:40
Information about the Space Investment Day added to the Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview – HTML attachment.
2024-09-16 15:50
Changes made to content on the landing page.Updates made to the programme overview attachment.HTML and PDF versions of the ‘2024/25 Business and Investor Pathway Programme – Information’ have been added as attachments.
2024-07-24 15:56
The Investor Pathway one-pager documents and the Business Pathway two-pager documents have been removed, as they have become outdated.The overview document has been removed and replace with a new document (programme overview) with up to date information.Content on the landing page has been updated.
2024-05-24 17:53
Updated with latest information.
2023-12-19 11:36
Update to section 3.1 of Unlocking Space for Investment – overview – HTML attachment. Applications have now closed to cohort 1, and have opened for cohort 2.Slight update to wording in section 3.2 to reflect the above.
2023-11-24 11:16
Slight wording changes to Unlocking Space for Investment – Business Pathway two-pager (PDF). Unlocking Space for Investment – Business Pathway two-pager – HTML version created to have accessible version of the PDF.
2023-11-17 15:20
Unlocking Space for Investment – Business Pathway two-pager (PDF) – file attachment addedUnlocking Space for Investment – overview – HTML attachment updatedInformation on Business Pathway Programme added to landing page
2023-11-10 17:21
First published.