# UK Space Agency

> UK Space Agency is a VC fund in Swindon backing Aerospace and Space Travel. See 72 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Swindon, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 72
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 93%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-space-agency
- Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacegovuk

UK Space Agency is an executive agency of the UK government that leads the UK's efforts to explore space.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 14 | 19% |
| Space Travel | 11 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 9 | 13% |
| Satellite Communication | 9 | 13% |
| Software | 7 | 10% |

87 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 44 | 61% |
| United States | 5 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Iain Woodhouse | Chair of the Earth Observation Advisory Committee | 0 | — |
| Liz Cox | Executive | 1 | — |
| Matt Archer | Director of Launch | 0 | — |
| Meganne Christian | Reserve Astronaut / Commercial Exploration Lead | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Magdrive | A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age | $2.7M | Grant | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Filtronic | Filtronic engages in the design and manufacture of microwave products for wireless telecommunications systems and defense applications. It offers transceiver modules and filters for backhaul microwave linking of base stations used in wireless telecommunication networks. Its point-to-point business designs and manufactures customized microwaveelectronic sub-assembly components that are integrated by original equipment manufacturers into point-to-point radios. These radios provide the backhaul links for telecom networks, particularly the mobile base station market. | $1.6M | Grant | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Vicinity Technologies | Vicinity offers complete 5G infrastructure solutions to system integrators and private network operators for fast time-to-deployment. | $1.6M | Grant | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Orbit Fab | Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets. It develops the infrastructure needed to grow a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses (communications and Earth observation) and new industries like spacetourism, manufacturing, and mining. The future for satellites is no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 by its Co-Founders Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel. | $3.8M | Grant | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Goonhilly Earth Station | Goonhilly Earth Station is a satellite communication teleport that provides telecommunication services. It offers satellite antenna services, including satellite communications teleport, satellite tracking and telemetry, earth station verification and assistance, launch and early operations support, very small aperture terminals, deep spacecommunications, and radio astronomy services. | $2.1M | Grant | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Archangel Lightworks | Archangel Lightworks is a laser communications company that builds secure, wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. They solve the space-ground connectivity problem. They offer an opportunity for resilient connectivity, and the ground is reliant on radio, which is bandwidth-constrained, finite, and not secure. | $466.4K | Grant | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Viasat | ViaSat keeps the world connected. As a global broadband services and technology company, ViaSat ensures consumers, businesses, governments and military personnel have communications access - anywhere - whether on the ground or in-flight. The Company's innovations in designing highest-capacity satellites and secure ground infrastructure andterminal technologies coupled with its international network of managed Wi-Fi hotspots enable ViaSat to deliver a best available network that extends the reach and accessibility of broadband internet service, globally.Their more than 3,700 global team members are dedicated to do what others in the industry view as impossible. They imagined and launched the world’s highest-capacity communications satellite and continue to set the standard in developing technologies that address global broadband challenges and ensure a better way for consumers, businesses, governments, and military personnel to stay connected. | $1.2M | Grant | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Vicinity Technologies | Vicinity offers complete 5G infrastructure solutions to system integrators and private network operators for fast time-to-deployment. | $2.8M | Grant | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| iCOMAT | iCOMAT has pioneered the revolutionary Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology, the first ever defect-free fibre-steering process for composites. This game-changing solution has helped customers unlock new levels of performance from composites, enabling them to manufacture lighter, more cost-effective products that perform better than ever before.Originally a spin-out company from the University of Bristol, iCOMAT has developed a patented manufacturing process for advanced carbon fibre composites which are lighter, stronger & more cost-effective than the state-of-the-art processes for the aerospace, automotive & marine sectors. iCOMAT’s innovative technology, Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS), is the world’s first automated composites manufacturing process that can place carbon fibre tapes along curved paths without generating defects. Its defect-free fibre steering capability realises ultra lightweight composite structures beyond the limit of the conventional straight fibre designs & complex geometry which is not manufacturable using current automated manufacturing technologies. Unique in the world of automated composite manufacturing, iCOMAT’s technology is set to revolutionise transport, driving performance & cost-benefits across multiple markets such as aerospace & automotive. Beyond state-of-the-art lightweighting solutions - Composite materials are anisotropic, they are only strong in the direction of their fibres. iCOMAT’s specialist technology steers the path of fibres, enabling optimisation of mechanical properties at any point of the structure & ultimately improve all aspects of structural performance. This produces lighter, more efficient components & uses material only where needed in the most efficient way so use of raw materials & overall production costs are drastically reduced. World-Class Composite Manufacturing Systems – iCOMAT is proud to be a market-leading solutions provider, working with customers to elevate product performance to the next-level. | $6.4M | Grant | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| LinkGevity | LinkGevity is an drug discovery company that focuses on life span and diseases associated with aging. |  | Grant | Sep 30, 2025 |  |

10 of 72 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [European Space Agency](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-space-agency-f580) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- Lockheed Martin — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does UK Space Agency invest in?

UK Space Agency invests primarily in Aerospace, Space Travel and Manufacturing startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 72 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact UK Space Agency?

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### Who are the partners at UK Space Agency?

The team at UK Space Agency includes Iain Woodhouse (Chair of the Earth Observation Advisory Committee), Liz Cox (Executive) and Matt Archer (Director of Launch). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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