Our team,
your startup hub

Our team

These are the people that make the Space Business Innovation Centre into a thriving community and an inspiring place to work. Our team is the center of your startup hub.

The team is currently made up of Martijn Seijger (managing director), Martijn Leinweber (community manager) & Sandra van Duijn (reception services).

ACTIVITIES

Hackathons, workshops and competitions! Sign up for our activities and discover the benefits of space technology.

VENTURE ACADEMY

Sign up as an individual or team and explore if your venture has the potential to grow. At the end of the academy you will have a solid business plan

ESA BIC

ESA BIC is the place for entrepreneurs to realise their innovative business ideas based on space technology.

A startup hub for explorers

Space exploration is not only a curiosity-driven endeavor. ‘Space’ has also given us many useful applications right here on earth. We can hardly imagine our lives anymore without satellite navigation in our cars, satellite TV in our homes, and location-based apps on our phones. Space is also responsible for innovations such as LED lighting, solar panels and freeze-drying food. And we have learned many valuable lessons by observing our own planet from space, with the help of earth observation satellites.

Still, we believe that ‘space’ is not being used to its maximum potential – especially by small businesses and startups. There is a need for startup hubs for the space industry. That is why the Space Business Innovation Centre Noordwijk supports entrepreneurs and startups that want to launch or improve a product or service that makes use of space technology. Think of an agriculture app that uses satellite data to inform farmers, or a product developer that uses space-grade technology to store medication. We want to provide a base for these companies, be their startup hub.

These companies are the ones that bring the power of space technology

#DownToEarth

Our partners

Together with its first-class partners, SBIC Noordwijk inspires entrepreneurs to transfer technologies or data from the area of space into successful businesses.