Software for satellites. We are overdue to talk about it – it’s important and it could be a big business opportunity, for reasons you’ll hear about in this episode. My guest is Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, co-founder of the French startup Leanspace who raised a EUR6MM seed round last year. Enjoy!
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Timestamps
0:00 Elevator Pitch
4:30 Satellite ground segment software
5:36 Origin story
10:27 Product cycle and use case
14:43 Third-party vs. in-house software
18:50 Fusing data
20:45 ChatGPT
21:25 Data security
24:13 Target market and customers
28:57 New approaches to aerospace manufacturing
31:26 Leanspace approach
33:58 Vision
37:05 Biggest risks
39:25 Strasbourg
41:20 Sci-Fi
