Guidance
Unlocking Space for Investment
Unlocking Space for Investment is a programme backed by the UK Space Agency that aims to catalyse investment to support the growth of the UK space sector.
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The programme addresses key barriers to investment through targeted interventions and strategic networking.
Our Goals are to:
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Enhance Business Readiness: Prepare space businesses for investment opportunities
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Strengthen Investor Confidence: Build trust and confidence among investors
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Expand Financing Options: Explore diverse financing solutions to support growth in the UK space sector
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Enhance Investor-Business Connections: Foster strong relationships between investors and space businesses
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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Published 10 November 2023
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Growth Pathway Programme - HTML attachment updated Growth Pathway Advisory Scheme - HTML attachment updated
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Added Growth Pathway content, Growth Hub and Advisory Scheme.
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Added information in Our Initiatives Added Investor Pathway Programme information Updated privacy notice
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Privacy notice - HTML attachment updated
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Removed questionnaire section as this has now closed.
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Updated page copy, added Industry Questionnaire for Industry Support Programme section Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview - HTML attachment created 2024/25 Programme Delivery - new title for HTML attachment
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Link to Unlocking Space for Investment Network sign up form added. Updated Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview HTML
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Added information on Space Investment Pitch Day and Space Investment Day. Updated Privacy notice
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Updated privacy notice.
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Information about the Space Investment Day added to the Unlocking Space for Investment: Programme overview - HTML attachment.
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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.
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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.
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Updated with latest information.
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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.
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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.
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Unlocking Space for Investment - Business Pathway two-pager (PDF) - file attachment added Unlocking Space for Investment - overview - HTML attachment updated Information on Business Pathway Programme added to landing page
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