About GEN Space

GEN Space catalyzes the growing volume of companies accelerating their growth through cheap access to zero-gravity conditions. By providing a robust platform, GEN Space stimulates the creation and scaling of startups and scale-ups focused on entrepreneurial opportunities through space. It connects a global community of policymakers, experts and new space entrepreneurs with key stakeholders, including government agencies, corporate leaders, and new investors. GEN Space drives awareness of opportunities to accelerate entrepreneurship through lower earth orbit access among all industries and enhances the commercial viability of space-related ventures.

Directed by a diverse advisory board of seasoned industry executives, GEN Space supports a network of over 4,000 companies worldwide, collectively employing tens of thousands of astropreneurs. These ventures focus on three core areas:

1. Technologies and capabilities in space, such as satellite constellations and in-orbit services;
2. Earth-based capabilities leveraging space resources or technologies, including precision agriculture and disaster response systems; and
3. Earth-based solutions enabled by space, such as global broadband connectivity and geospatial analytics.

These companies drive innovation across critical subsectors:

• Space systems services: infrastructure like space stations and orbital platforms;
• Upstream: launch services and satellite data collection;
• Downstream: data downlink, processing, and analytics;
• Beyond Earth: space exploration and resource extraction (e.g., lunar mining);
• Space-for-Earth: communications, security, and environmental monitoring; and
• Space-for-Space: In-space manufacturing, mining, and servicing platforms.

Through tailored mentorship, high-impact events, and specialized training programs, astropreneurs in the GEN Space network gain access to a roster of industry experts and advisors on every continent. Representing more than 90 countries, these astropreneurs have collectively secured over US $62 billion in investments across 1,600 funding rounds since GEN Space’s inception.
 

The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates programs, like GEN Space, that make it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a company. By fostering deeper cross-border collaboration between founders, investors, policymakers, ecosystem builders and others, GEN fuels healthier and more efficient local and national entrepreneurship ecosystems. Network members collaborate to democratize opportunity, drive economic mobility, create new jobs and grow economies while developing the conditions for entrepreneurs to solve the world’s toughest challenges.