The EIC Scaling Club Podcast interviewed Rafal Modrzewski, co-founder and CEO of ICEYE, a Finland-based micro-satellite manufacturer, at the recent OTB Ventures Summit in Poland.
Founded in 2014 and backed by the EIC along the way, ICEYE essentially provides persistent monitoring capabilities for any location on earth (even at night and when it’s cloudy).
Owning the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, the company enables objective, data-driven decisions for customers in sectors such as insurance, natural catastrophe response and recovery, security, maritime monitoring, and finance, among others.
The ‘new space’ scale-up has raised over $300 million in funding to date.
Have a listen to this interview on our podcast page.
About the EIC Scaling Club
The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 100 European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.
The top 100 European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
We caught up with Adam Niewinski, a partner at OTB Ventures, a Poland-based investment firm that backs deep tech startups and scale-ups from across Europe, particularly in the CEE region.
The VC firm is investing primarily in four sectors, namely AI and automation, space tech, fintech infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
CLICK HERE to learn more about OTB’s investments thesis, the state of the CEE (and broader European) deep tech ecosystems from Adam’s point of view, and much more.
OTB Ventures is an early member of the EIC Scaling Club, and will join the curated community to connect with leading deep tech entrepreneurs, fellow investors, and other industry stakeholders to grow the ecosystem(s) together.
Want to join as well? Express your interest now!
About the EIC Scaling club
The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 100 European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators, and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.
The top 100 European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programs, and beyond.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
Curious to know how OTB Ventures was established?
🎙️ Dawid Malinowski from the Equity Story show had an opportunity to run an interview with our GP & Co-Founder, Marcin Hejka
🎙️ Get a peak into Marcin’s extensive 18+ years of experience at Intel Capital as a VP, a Global Investment Committee member, and a Managing Director
🎙️ Find out more on navigating the #venturecapital in the startup ecosystem
🎙️ Get a story on how Marcin teamed up with our GP & Co-Founder, Adam Niewiński to create a company that became a leading Real Tech fund in Europe
👏 Big thanks to reach4.biz for airing the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0lIKieW1DA