CDTI - Center for Technological Development and Innovation
Governmental agency
ESA Investor Network
Borrower stages
- Pre-revenue / R&D stage
- Early revenue (<€ 1M ARR)
- Growth stage (€ 1M – € 10M ARR)
- Scale-up (€ 10M – € 50M ARR)
- Established / Profitable
- Pre-IPO / Late stage
Actively finances
- Launch vehicles and propulsion
- Satellites
- Ground segment and terminals
- Space data and AI applications
- In-space services and debris removal
- Space manufacturing
- Defence-tech / dual-use space
- Human spaceflight / tourism
- GNSS / PNT applications
- All commercial space (sector-agnostic)
Instruments
- Convertible note / bond
- Innovation / R&D loan
Tenor
Time to term sheet
Security and collateral
- Unsecured possible
- Personal / parent-company guarantee
- Bank guarantee
Conditions
Can lend to loss-making companies
Lend under risk-sharing programmes