Investments, Growth and Profitability in Space

The space business is at a crossroads.

Historical markets are declining while innovation has never been so prolific.

Its rejuvenation will stem from corporates, start-ups and investments funds to cooperate as one single ecosystem.

Jansky Partners supports space stakeholders

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About Damien Garot

Founder

Damien Garot is a space executive with more than 20 years of experience in business and investment.

Trained as a space engineer (Supaéro, France), he has worked for a space agency (CNES), a start-up (SkyBridge), a satellite manufacturer (Alcatel Alenia Space) and an operator (Eutelsat).

He was the Eutelsat’s director of Corporate Development for 11 years. He has led organic investment projects (€2.5bn validated by the Eutelsat Board of Directors) as well as the first external full acquisition of Eutelsat ($228m).
Among other projects, he has signed the first partnership between Facebook and the space industry, to bring satellite internet to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Damien teaches at ESCP (Paris Campus) and at the EDC MBA.

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Why "Jansky"?

The jansky is a unit of spectral flux density used in radio astronomy.

The unit is named after pioneering US radio astronomer Karl Guthe Jansky.

Jansky Partners humbly refers to this heritage, to point out new sources of energy in space business!

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Start-ups

Jansky Partners provides 3 kinds of support to space-related start-ups, i.e. newspace:

Jansky Partners leverages its network of investment funds and established players to support the start-up founders. A specific focus will be the development of soft-skills, to enable long-term relationships with these critical stakeholders.

Incumbents

Established players now operate in a fast-changing environment and face headwinds on historical activities.In parallel, two different ecosystems exist, which can be tapped for growth:

They have 3 main reasons to cooperate with these ecosystems:

Jansky Partners helps established players adapting themselves to these new ecosystems, in order to generate new potential.

Investment funds

Space-related business has high-barriers of entry for funds, due to its technological and regulatory aspects. An investment due-diligence must encompass technical, operational, regulatory, institutional, commercial, marketing, financial and corporate aspects.

Thanks to its experienced staff, Jansky Partners provides an overall risk/opportunity assessment, for opportunities on nascent or established targets.