Beyond Gravity Launchpad

We help young entrepreneurs, our employees and our customers to develop breakthrough business ideas through Venture Clienting and our strategic innovation program: the Beyond Gravity Launchpad.

Lukas Gnilka Manager Beyond Gravity Incubator

We help young entrepreneurs, our employees, and our customers to advance through the creation of breakthrough business ideas.

Our "Launchpad" Program

Our program supports the early development and acceleration of promising ideas and concepts. If you're exploring untapped business opportunities in space, business development or sustainability, our Launchpad could be the ideal platform for your startup's growth. We can help you take your ideas, concepts and projects to the next level for mutual benefit.

"We aim to accelerate promising technologies and business models."

André Wall CEO

Key elements

1. Venture Clienting

Through Venture Clienting, Beyond Gravity facilitates the integration of innovative startup solutions into our global operations, acting as an early adopter and advocate for these startups. On an ongoing basis, we select startups to work with our internal experts on process innovation to identify further opportunities for collaboration and mutual benefit.

What we offer:
Opportunities for pilot testing, demonstrations and early adoption as a reference customer.

2. Strategic Innovation Programme

Let's work together through workshops and case studies to discover and validate mutual synergies and potential collaborations. We'll then work together to integrate these insights into our product and business strategy and explore opportunities for future partnerships, internal ventures and possible investments through our network!

What we offer:
Direct access to the international space community, including specialist engineers, customers and national agencies. Direct access to our partners: Space Founders Accelerator, ESA BIC Switzerland, Microsoft for Startups and AWS for Startups.

Our Focus Areas

Beyond Gravity carefully selects projects that align with our core activities and operational strategies. We work closely with startups to drive advances in space technology and operational methods. If your venture is in any of the following areas, let's explore the possibilities together!

Space Technologies With 14 production sites in seven countries, we integrate engineering expertise and industrial capabilities. Can your business idea contribute along the value chain, from sourcing to industrial production to support functions? Then let's talk!

Value Chain With 12 production sites in six countries, Beyond Gravity combines engineering know-how and industrial production capabilities for space. We constantly strive to better serve our customers by being agile, reliable and efficient Your business idea could support this mission along the value chain from procurement via design, prototyping and testing to industrial production? Then we invite you to have a closer look together.

People We put our people first and aim to be an employer of choice. Do you have an idea that will improve the way the organisation works and increase employee engagement? Let's work together to drive positive change.

Apply

Ready to embark on an exciting journey? Join the Beyond Gravity Launchpad with your project and let's create the next unicorn together!

We welcome applications on an ongoing basis and are looking for projects at any stage.
Submit your documents, presentations, white papers or a short video introducing yourself, your partners and your project to Lukas Gnilka.
Tell us why your venture could be a valuable addition to Beyond Gravity and highlight potential areas for future collaboration.

We are an international company, so the Launchpad is open to participants from different countries. 🚀

Send a message to Lukas.

What the Start-ups say.

Karin Stephan Co-Founder Earkick

Beyond Gravity’s Launchpad program helped us get truly close to our customers. The touch points were hands-on, perfectly organized by the launchpad team, and rich in real-life learning. Highly recommended for any startup that matches the criteria.

Adam Rumjahn Co-Founder Orion AM

The Launchpad program showcased the remarkable speed of innovation at Beyond Gravity. We have gained invaluable knowledge and experience from experts in the space domain which helped us to understand our value proposition and strengthen our product offering.

Gustav Nils Basedow Founder RevoAI

Beyond Gravity‘s program has enabled us to learn and enter the space market two years earlier than planned. Key success factors were the commited experts from the business units, strong enablement of the top management and precise coordination by the program management.

Moritz Novak CEO Gate Space

The program was worth every second. It was an honour to collaborate with and learn from the experts during the 8-week program. Especially, we want to highlight the very professional but nevertheless friendly and supportive working environment at Beyond Gravity.

Kevin Schawinski Co-founder & CEO Modulos

The Beyond Gravity program gives you valuable insights into how a modern technology company operates. Understanding how a corporate thinks about innovation is essential for startups to succeed. During the incubator, we had the opportunity to work with Beyond Gravity engineers, business experts and executives on several use cases

Who was part of the Launchpad journey?

Aucta

Aucta is an award-winning startup that sustainably transforms CAD data into interactive 3D visualizations that can deliver significant results in sales, service and training. The USP lies in the simple handling, for which no programming knowledge is required.

Earkick

Earkick is a U.S.-Swiss start-up, that has developed AI technology that anonymously measures employee mental health, takes automated measurements and generates actionable suggestions based on real data.

Ethereal X

Ethereal X is an aerospace start-up form India. The talented young team aims to build the world's most powerful reusable medium shear load launch vehicle. This is expected to significantly reduce the cost of space transportation.

GATE Space

The Austrian company GATE Space develops the world's first satellite propulsion solutions capable of deep throttling. This enables highly efficient and redundant thruster configurations using differential thrust. As a global supplier of complementary satellite components, Beyond Gravity sees large potential in the collaboration.

Modulos

Modulos offers an enterprise AI platform which allows user to build trustworthy AI models. The data-centric AI approach of the platform reduced the workload for labeling and cleaning data, which is still very high today. Beyond Gravity is interested in collaboration in the area of product quality assessment and optimization.

Orion AM

Orion AM produces the most advanced 3D printer for industrial additive manufacturing with high performance polymers such as PEEK, PEI, PPSU and more. The unique technology can achieve injection molding-like strength in 3D-printed parts, which offers new possibilities in the production of aerospace parts.

RevoAI

RevoAI supports deeptech companies in engineering complex and safety critical products within scope, cost and time frame. This is achieved by enabling AI-powered and model-based engineering early in the development process. Beyond Gravity sees potential throughout the testing process of space products.

Rimon

Rimon has developed a white-label platform, where instructions of multiple use cases can be transferred into augmented reality (AR). Augmented reality solutions are used to execute defined technical processes faster and more precisely. Beyond Gravity sees potential in the space sector in general, where many processes must be clearly defined and executed step by step.

Side Effects

Side Effects creates 3D based work instructions, manuals, technical documentation, assembly instructions, spare parts catalogues and much more with an automatic digital 3D twin from customer's CAD data and their easy-to-use 3D editing system.