Pitch Competition 2024
Pitch Competition 2024

The NSE 2024 Start-Up Pitch Competition is an event organized with the technical support of the Italian Space Agency, where innovative startups, industry experts, and international speakers come together.

Main Stage (Hall 2)
17 December 2024
H 17.00

Partner:

The competition is scheduled for December 17th.
To participate, interested startups must:

• Have an MVP or a working prototype;
• Be in a pre-seed funding stage or higher;
• Have a competent and dedicated team;
• Operate in technological and innovation sectors related to the Space Economy;
• Have a headquarters in Italy.

The Evaluation Committee, composed of industry experts and NSE 2024 partners, will select the 10 most suitable startups for the event and the final pitch competition.
The 10 startups deemed eligible for the competition will be notified by December 6, 2024. On December 17th, starting at 5:00 PM, the selected startups will take turns on the NSE stage, each having a maximum of 5 minutes to present their business proposal.
The NSE 2024 Scientific Committee will evaluate the presentations and announce the competition winner.

The prize for the competition winner, awarded by NSE – New Space Economy 2024, will be €10,000. Only the first-place winner will benefit from the prize.

Thanks to the partnership between NSE and Amazon Web Services, AWS will select one of the 10 finalist startups to receive the Special Prize of €100,000 in credits to be used on Amazon Web Services platforms.

Finalist startups:

Evaluation Committee:

• Matteo Coletta
Head of Sector – Study Centre & New Space Economy, ASI
• Tanya Scalia
Technology Development & Space Design Office, ASI
• Silvia Ciccarelli
Responsible for Industrial Internationalization, International Affairs Directorate, ASI
• Guido Baraglia
Head of Space Economy EMEA, AWS
• Roberto Cossu
Commercialisation Officer &  Scale Up Country Manager for Italy, ESA
• Maria Cristina Lupi
Head of product policy and open innovation, Telespazio
• Alessandro Senzameno
Innovation development, Fiera Roma