Scotland is fast becoming a place where space is no longer just a sector, but a driver of the next economy, powering finance, climate, life sciences, security and data infrastructure.
This Venture Café Edinburgh, Alexander Associates, and Burges Salmon event brings together founders, investors, institutions, and ecosystem champions to explore how Scotland’s space-enabled companies are creating real commercial value — and why global capital is increasingly looking to the Scottish ecosystem for its next wave of opportunity.
The event is designed for:
- Founders scaling space-enabled companies
- Investors and HNWIs seeking new, high-growth opportunities
- Institutions shaping Scotland’s future economy
- Leaders from finance, life sciences, climate, data and advanced engineering.
Together, they will explore how Scotland’s next economy is taking shape, in orbit and beyond.
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Curious about what astronauts eat in space? Stop by our interactive Astronaut Food Tasting Station to find out.
Discover the science behind space nutrition and sample some of the freeze-dried and specially prepared foods designed for life in orbit. It’s a hands-on (and tastebud-tested!) experience that gives you a small bite of life beyond Earth.
Step up to the Constellation Board and see where it could take you!
Share your ideas, explore new possibilities, and draw connections across the network. It’s a creative space to spark conversations, link thinking, and see how individual ideas can come together to form something bigger.
Step into our Space Tech Showcase and discover innovative startups exploring new frontiers. Here you'll have the chance to connect with Star Helix, Neowatt, SensFish and Aphelion Industries.
From bold ideas to breakthrough technologies, this is a chance to experience the creativity and ambition shaping the future of space - all in onme place!
Step into a space where every conversation has the potential to spark something new. Throughout the evening, enjoy refreshments and a lively, welcoming atmosphere designed to bring people together, whether you’re exchanging ideas, meeting new people, or discovering future collaborators.
Deep Space Call and Response is a twelve-and-a-half minute sound composition. The artist worked with data from the European Space Agency (ESA) to render audible the patterns of movement and communication between 11 space missions and the network of ground stations that support them. Using a process of data sonification as the basis for a creative composition based on samples recorded at home, the piece enables these complex interactions to be experienced poetically, through music. At this evening’s session you are warmly invited to meet the artist, ask her questions about the making of the work, and/or hear the piece for yourself.
Uni students, staff and recent grads can win equity free cash through this top-tier programme.
Whether a start-up or a spinout, if you have an innovative idea, Converge is here to support.
With over 20 prizes on offer – you could be our next winner.
Join this short session to learn more.
Join Clare Reid, Strategic Innovation Director at FinTech Scotland, and Natasha Nicholson, CEO of Space Scotland, two leaders at the heart of Scotland’s cluster strategy, for a conversation with moderator Kate Beresford-Green, Strategic Partnership Manager Space at Alexander Associates.
Together, they’ll explore the ingredients every successful cluster needs to thrive, from talent and capital to coordination and a compelling national narrative. They’ll also discuss where the space sector differs from fintech, and the growing opportunities where the two industries intersect.
Don’t miss this fireside chat with Aidan MacMillan, Investment Director at PXN Ventures, and Alexander Holt, Managing Director at Seraphim Space Enterprise, moderated by Claudia Cavalluzzo, Director of Venture Café Edinburgh.
The conversation will explore how to grow Scotland’s SpaceTech ecosystem, including emerging opportunities, funding gaps, and strategies to attract investors. With Seraphim’s global expertise as the largest specialist SpaceTech investor and PXN’s growing involvement in the sector, it will offer two distinct perspectives on what it takes to put Scotland on the map.
Attend our Founder Spotlight Series and be introduced to Oren Smith-Carpenter, CEO of Aurora Avionics, and Dr Aleksandra Bavdaz, CEO of SensFish, by Scott Fyfe, Senior Associate at Burges Salmon.
Scotland is fast becoming a place where space is no longer just a sector, but a driver of the next economy, powering finance, climate, life sciences, security and data infrastructure.
This Venture Café Edinburgh, Alexander Associates, and Burges Salmon event brings together founders, investors, institutions, and ecosystem champions to explore how Scotland’s space-enabled companies are creating real commercial value — and why global capital is increasingly looking to the Scottish ecosystem for its next wave of opportunity.
The event is designed for:
- Founders scaling space-enabled companies
- Investors and HNWIs seeking new, high-growth opportunities
- Institutions shaping Scotland’s future economy
- Leaders from finance, life sciences, climate, data and advanced engineering.
Together, they will explore how Scotland’s next economy is taking shape, in orbit and beyond.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Curious about what astronauts eat in space? Stop by our interactive Astronaut Food Tasting Station to find out.
Discover the science behind space nutrition and sample some of the freeze-dried and specially prepared foods designed for life in orbit. It’s a hands-on (and tastebud-tested!) experience that gives you a small bite of life beyond Earth.
Step up to the Constellation Board and see where it could take you!
Share your ideas, explore new possibilities, and draw connections across the network. It’s a creative space to spark conversations, link thinking, and see how individual ideas can come together to form something bigger.
Step into our Space Tech Showcase and discover innovative startups exploring new frontiers. Here you'll have the chance to connect with Star Helix, Neowatt, SensFish and Aphelion Industries.
From bold ideas to breakthrough technologies, this is a chance to experience the creativity and ambition shaping the future of space - all in onme place!
Step into a space where every conversation has the potential to spark something new. Throughout the evening, enjoy refreshments and a lively, welcoming atmosphere designed to bring people together, whether you’re exchanging ideas, meeting new people, or discovering future collaborators.
Deep Space Call and Response is a twelve-and-a-half minute sound composition. The artist worked with data from the European Space Agency (ESA) to render audible the patterns of movement and communication between 11 space missions and the network of ground stations that support them. Using a process of data sonification as the basis for a creative composition based on samples recorded at home, the piece enables these complex interactions to be experienced poetically, through music. At this evening’s session you are warmly invited to meet the artist, ask her questions about the making of the work, and/or hear the piece for yourself.
Uni students, staff and recent grads can win equity free cash through this top-tier programme.
Whether a start-up or a spinout, if you have an innovative idea, Converge is here to support.
With over 20 prizes on offer – you could be our next winner.
Join this short session to learn more.
Join Clare Reid, Strategic Innovation Director at FinTech Scotland, and Natasha Nicholson, CEO of Space Scotland, two leaders at the heart of Scotland’s cluster strategy, for a conversation with moderator Kate Beresford-Green, Strategic Partnership Manager Space at Alexander Associates.
Together, they’ll explore the ingredients every successful cluster needs to thrive, from talent and capital to coordination and a compelling national narrative. They’ll also discuss where the space sector differs from fintech, and the growing opportunities where the two industries intersect.
Don’t miss this fireside chat with Aidan MacMillan, Investment Director at PXN Ventures, and Alexander Holt, Managing Director at Seraphim Space Enterprise, moderated by Claudia Cavalluzzo, Director of Venture Café Edinburgh.
The conversation will explore how to grow Scotland’s SpaceTech ecosystem, including emerging opportunities, funding gaps, and strategies to attract investors. With Seraphim’s global expertise as the largest specialist SpaceTech investor and PXN’s growing involvement in the sector, it will offer two distinct perspectives on what it takes to put Scotland on the map.
Attend our Founder Spotlight Series and be introduced to Oren Smith-Carpenter, CEO of Aurora Avionics, and Dr Aleksandra Bavdaz, CEO of SensFish, by Scott Fyfe, Senior Associate at Burges Salmon.