# ESA Business Applications

> ESA Business Applications is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/esabusinessapplications/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ESAbusinessapps
- Website: https://business.esa.int

ESA Business Applications is a VC fund in Oxford focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. ESA Business Applications is the go-to place for business ideas involving space in all areas of society and economy. Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in Europe in the development of business using satellite applications and space technology.The programme is designed to provide multiple entry points such as ESA Business Incubation Centres(ESA BICs), ESA Technology Transfer Brokers, ESA Business Application Ambassadors and the ESA Business Applications programme. It can also support ideas of transferring space technology into non-space markets or vice versa.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$3.9M |
| Grant | $55k–$306k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 5 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 23% |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Analytics | 3 | 14% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 9 | 41% |
| Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 3 | 14% |
| Germany | 3 | 14% |
| Portugal | 3 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| France | 2 | 9% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Walter | Applications Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-walter-3 |
| Frank Salzgeber | Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-salzgeber |
| Glen Linx | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glen-linx-1535 |
| Gonzalo Martin de Mercado | Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gonzalo-martin-de-mercado |
| Marco Trovatello | Science Communicator | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marco-trovatello |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sentrisense | Digitizing the most geographically distributed human infrastructure on earth, the power lines! | $55K | Grant | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| OWLplaces | OWLplaces is a GeoAI Agents platform that connects insurers, banks, and owners — to monitor risks, strengthen portfolio resilience, and report compliance with climate transition and decarbonisation goals. It delivers real-time Earth intelligence for real estate, enabling clients to make underwriting decisions up to 15× faster and smarter.Ouragentic GeoAI is powered by a growing, proprietary database of auditable, real-time digital twins — covering buildings, infrastructure, climate, and surrounding environments — enabling advanced reasoning, persistent memory, orchestration, and specialised analysis.These self-adaptive digital twins, updated in real time, enable the establishment of a common international language to measure and communicate climate and transition risks, as well as the sustainability performance of Real Estate — the origin of the concept of Real-Time Digital Passports, designed to assess the risk, resilience, and value both at the portfolio level and for each individual asset. | $320K | Pre-Seed | Dec 28, 2020 |  |
| Aitonomi TeleRetail: Automation & Electrification | Aitonomi TeleRetail makes self-driving electric transport vehicles to automate logistics in cities, rural areas and in industrial environments. |  |  | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Wegaw | We process remote sensing satellite data with artificial intelligence to monitor renewable energy sources like water & snow. Through these datasets we improve our clients energy forecasting capabilities helping them increase the energy production by 10% and their energy trading prices by 5% |  | Product Crowdfunding | Feb 22, 2019 |  |
| Spacenus | Spacenus offers AI platforms that use smartphone cameras and satellite imagery for precision agriculture. Agriculture feeds the world. Today's challenge is to use less, while growing more. To that end, Spacenus uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to help make better decisions.They innovate and engineer the future of agriculturaltechnology. |  | Seed | Oct 30, 2018 |  |
| Delox | Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions,catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination. |  | Grant | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Hummingbird Technologies | Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identifyearly problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs. | $3.9M | Seed | Mar 05, 2018 |  |
| Wegaw | We process remote sensing satellite data with artificial intelligence to monitor renewable energy sources like water & snow. Through these datasets we improve our clients energy forecasting capabilities helping them increase the energy production by 10% and their energy trading prices by 5% |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| QuantCube Technology | Created in July 2013 by two ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs, QuantCube Technology was born out of a desire to use to the fullest extent the potential and the new opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.What was at the beginning a Fintech startup focusing on the development of the next generation of investmentstrategies rapidly became over the past six years a cross-sectoral R&D company whose purpose is to create value from all types of data, while being at the forefront of innovation and advocating for an ethical use of the data. While looking at the future of Analytics, they are always keen to take on new challenges, as they did when they decided a couple of years ago to extend their analytics to the Space industry for example. | $66K |  | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| Spacenus | Spacenus offers AI platforms that use smartphone cameras and satellite imagery for precision agriculture. Agriculture feeds the world. Today's challenge is to use less, while growing more. To that end, Spacenus uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to help make better decisions.They innovate and engineer the future of agriculturaltechnology. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centre-for-the-development-of-industrial-technology-cdti) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ENISA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enisa-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Barcelona Activa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barcelona-activa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ESA Business Applications invest in?

ESA Business Applications invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ESA Business Applications's check size?

ESA Business Applications typically joins rounds of $650k–$3.9M at Seed and $55k–$306k at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ESA Business Applications participates in.

### How do I contact ESA Business Applications?

Public channels for ESA Business Applications include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at ESA Business Applications?

The team at ESA Business Applications includes Christian Walter (Applications Engineer), Frank Salzgeber (Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office) and Glen Linx (CEO), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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