4 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Our hosts Daniel and Sven, co-founders and CEOs of LiveEO, host a live NewSpaceVision special from our October 2022 meetup, recorded at LiveEO’s brand new office.
How do investors think - what do they look for when funding a company? Should one even seek investment or is it actually better to bootstrap a business? We deep dive into these questions with newspace veteran Tom Segert, founder and CEO of Berlin Space Technologies; Andreas Kupke, tech entrepreneur & investor; and Lukas Leitner, analyst and venture capitalist at Lakestar.
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0:00.0 | All right, a lift-off. |
0:06.0 | The clock is turned. |
0:07.0 | We have a lift-off. |
0:09.0 | We actually had with these two guys. |
0:11.0 | And I remember I had new One of the first pitches I actually had with these two guys. |
0:23.4 | And I remember I had no clue about optical, hyperspectral, sensor, planet labs, data fusion, whatever. |
0:30.8 | Whatever they were telling me, I was like, okay, great. |
0:34.7 | Sounds good, but I have no clue what it is. |
0:37.2 | So I had to build knowledge. and this is actually my daily business. |
0:40.3 | And the way I build knowledge is actually by talking to people that know much more than I do, and I experts in the field. |
0:45.3 | So I talk to Andreas, I talk to these guys. I ask a lot of stupid questions just to get a knowledge and find good companies out there in the market that are willing and want to take on venture capital. |
0:56.6 | And yeah, I mean, it's great. |
0:58.0 | I get paid for looking into space tech stuff. |
1:00.0 | It's an amazing job. |
1:01.7 | Nice. |
1:02.2 | So did you know before you joined Lexstar that you will be responsible for analyzing the space ecosystem? |
1:08.4 | Or was there, hey, we are Lexstar, we need an analyst, you fit, you joined, and then |
1:12.6 | they said you're going to take care of space. |
1:14.6 | Yeah, the latter. |
1:15.6 | So it was really, I wasn't really prepared to look into space tech. |
1:18.6 | And obviously, my background is in business, so I don't have a background in space engineering |
1:23.6 | or astrophysics or whatever it might be. |
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