INCUBATION PROGRAM

The Aurelia Foundry incubation program offers deep technical mentorship, microgravity and cis-lunar flight opportunities, industry-specific recruiting help, and access to a world-class aerospace and funder network.  We support and nurture early-stage startups in their journey from conception to technology demo to becoming successful, sustainable businesses.

  • Participating startups receive investment from Aurelia Foundry.

  • Startups are paired with experienced mentors, industry experts, and successful entrepreneurs who provide valuable guidance and advice. These mentors offer insights into various aspects of business development, from deep tech product refinement to finding product-market fit in an emerging industry, to partnership strategy and fundraising.

  • The Aurelia Foundry incubation program offer startups access to resources they might not otherwise have, such as fabrication and prototyping space, zero-gravity flights, and legal and accounting services tuned for the particular needs of the space regulatory environment (e.g., FAA, FCC, export control/ITAR).

  • The program provides startups with opportunities to connect with other best-in-class aerospace entrepreneurs, investors across our extensive domestic and international networks, strategic industry partners, and potential customers.

  • We provide startups with a platform to validate their ideas, products, or services in a beta-friendly environment. Constructive feedback from our technical experts, entrepreneurship mentors and an Executive in Residence helps refine the startup's offerings.

  • The Aurelia Foundry incubation program offers ongoing support throughout the life of the company, helping founders connect with investors for Series B and beyond and queuing up conversations for M&A opportunities and large customer contracts when the time is right.

  • We carefully tailor our program to select verticals within Earth & space tech, enabling startups to benefit from our extensive domain expertise and experience launching over 100 payloads to space and microgravity environments.

CORE INVESTMENT AREAS

  • Space Infrastructure, ISRU and OSAM

  • Human Health

  • Space Satellite Applications

  • Space for Earth: Climate Change Tech

Space exploration is not about abandoning Earth. The Aurelia ecosystem builds a better future for humanity, wherever our “orbits” may be. Technology products developed for space in our studio R&D model will also be applied to Earth markets, in the long tradition of NASA spin-offs.

*ISRU: In-Situ Resource Utilization (e.g., lunar mining); OSAM: On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing

Aurelia Foundry builds on our in-house Aurelia incubator and local MIT ecosystem, and will actively build and curate companies via a venture-studio model of investment with proprietary deal flow. We also welcome outside founders and IP spinning out of key industry skunkworks, in selecting companies that fit our investment thesis within Deep Tech Space Exploration.

Together, the pillars of Aurelia’s research and investment ecosystem will jumpstart humanity’s metamorphosis into a space-faring species while profoundly benefitting life on Earth.

AURELIA FOUNDRY NETWORK

Aurelia’s GP team brings partnership relationships, collaboration, access, and launch history with key players in commercial space and human spaceflight