NADIRSPACE · VENTURE

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Space · Satellite · Deep-tech · Dual-use

European deep-tech, scaled across the Europe–GCC corridor.

We back Europe's best space, satellite and deep-tech companies — and help them scale and serve demand across both Europe and the GCC.

Nadir Space Venture Scroll ↓
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A focused investment platform

What we do

We invest in European space and deep-tech companies with dual-use revenue — one technology serving commercial customers and governments — and give each a second market.

Invest

What we invest in

European Earth observation, connectivity & PNT, in-orbit logistics, and space-derived industrial technology. Early-stage.

Model

The dual-use model

One technology, two paying customers — commercial enterprise and government. Two revenue lines from one R&D spend.

Reach

Two markets

Customers across Europe and entry into the GCC — footprint, licensing and sovereign demand on both ends.

The corridor

Europe invents. We scale it across two markets.

Sourced in Europe, at the incubator layer. Scaled and served across Europe and the GCC — commercial and sovereign demand, from one platform.

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Four segments. Demand across Europe and the GCC.

Focus

Europe invents; demand runs deep on both ends of the corridor. We help each company scale and serve customers across Europe and the GCC — commercial and government in every one.

Earth observation & geospatial intelligence

Satellite imagery + AI analytics — a data business with commercial and government buyers.

EUROPE

Green-Deal & emissions compliance, precision agriculture, insurance analytics, Copernicus / border ISR.

GCC

CST-prioritised EO analytics; NEOM monitoring, energy-asset & pipeline surveillance, maritime awareness.

Sovereign & resilient connectivity + PNT

Connectivity and precise positioning as critical infrastructure.

EUROPE

IRIS² secure connectivity, Galileo / GNSS resilience, non-GEO backhaul and defence comms.

GCC

CST-prioritised D2D & HTS backhaul; sovereign connectivity and GNSS-jamming resilience.

In-orbit logistics & space transportation

The transport and servicing layer that lets the LEO economy scale.

EUROPE

Sovereign launch & servicing autonomy, constellation deployment, clean-space / debris mandates.

GCC

Domestic manufacturing + orbit access; a live in-region presence already seated.

Space-derived deep-tech for energy, water & industry

Space IP re-pointed into industry — the tech-transfer motion, at scale.

EUROPE

Energy-transition, industrial decarbonisation and critical-infrastructure monitoring across EU industry.

GCC

Energy-transition, desalination and industrial digitalisation; NEOM.

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Two markets from one platform

For founders

We take a strong European company, win it customers across Europe, and open a second, sovereign market in the Gulf — building footprint and factories on both ends. Value a founder can't buy anywhere else.

Scale across Europe

European customers & channels

Introductions to enterprise and public-sector buyers across a 23-country European footprint.

European capital & syndication

Filled rounds and follow-on leads with the institutions that back this exact profile.

EU industry & footprint

Re-point technology into new European industries; support hiring and factory build-out in Europe.

Enter & localise in the GCC

Gulf sovereign customers

The first government purchase order — energy, maritime, connectivity and national buyers matched to your product.

Licensing & localisation

Entity, licence class, local-content rules and factory / footprint in the Gulf — navigated by people who set them.

GCC capital & scale

Sovereign and strategic co-capital plus a captive, procurement-backed market to scale into.

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We already have both ends of the corridor

Our edge

Nadir is founded on the institution that created Europe's largest space-startup network — and authored a national space programme in the Gulf. Origination and access no generalist can replicate.

Origination

First-look pipeline

European deep-tech at the incubator layer, before it reaches any other fund.

Access

Government as customer

In the Gulf the buyer is a government — and the rules were written by our team.

Translation

Space → industry

We re-point technology into new industries and sovereign buyers alike — a motion no sector- or geography-only fund can run.

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How we invest

Approach
01 — Source

Source

European deep-tech through the incubation and tech-transfer network we built — first-look at the incubator layer.

02 — Select

Select

Early-stage, dual-use revenue validated, a real technology moat, and a nameable Gulf demand we can open.

03 — Build

Build

Customers across Europe, first sovereign customers in the Gulf, and follow-on for the winners.

04 — Realise

Realise

Exits to space & aerospace primes or public markets — Euronext, Tadawul or international.

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Lean by design, deep where it counts

Team
Frank Salzgeber
Managing Partner · IC
Frank Salzgeber

Ex-ESA Head of Innovation & Ventures — built the largest space-entrepreneurship network in the world. Ex-Acting Vice Governor for Space, CST. Sourcing, value-add and government access.

Investment Team
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner (Co-GP)
  • Associate
Operations
  • IR · COO · CFO
  • Fund operations
  • LP relations & finance
Industry Advisors
  • ESA-BIC directors
  • Space & deep-tech founders
  • Gulf market-access operators

Building the partnership — co-GP & advisors joining. We convene; the company executes.

Get in touch

Let's build across the corridor

Founders, co-investors and institutional investors — reach out. Investor materials are available under NDA.

Nadir Space · Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · CR 749082