Apply for 2024 Space Tank Pitch Competition – US

Deadline: 2 April 2024

Space Tech Expo USA, in partnership with World Innovation Network (WIN)’s SPACE-BASE, proudly presents Space Tank: Igniting Innovation in Space Tech Startups.

This exciting pitch competition spotlights the most innovative and diverse space sector start-ups on the planet. On May 14, 2024 in Long Beach, California, watch these enterprising entrepreneurs compete, before a live audience and an esteemed judge panel of industry experts, renowned investors, and successful entrepreneurs, to earn the prized 2024 Space Tech Expo USA Top Tech Trophy.

By showcasing these emerging stand-outs on its extensive in-person and on-line global platforms, Space Tech Expo USA delivers unprecedented opportunities to forge vital industry relationships which ignite media presence, thought leadership, branding, networking, dealmaking, teaming, partnerships, fundraising, traction, and ultimately turbo-charged growth.

Space innovation pioneers should complete the streamlined application on Space Tech Expo USA’s website right away.

Categories

Applications are encouraged to provide solutions to specific space and space-related problems and challenges. This could include a problem or challenge within any of the space sector categories and sub-categories listed below.

Status of the Space Industry
- Supply chain challenges and impact on commercial, civil, and national security missions
- International collaboration and regulation
- Funding
- Downstream application innovation (communications, Earth observation, etc.)
- Diversity, equity & inclusion
Manufacturing and Operational Technologies
- 3D Printing / Additive manufacturing
- Artificial intelligence
- Automation (production / other)
- Onboard data processing
- Software
- Robotics
- Cyber security
LEO to Lunar and Beyond
- Debris: regulation and innovation
- Return to the Moon: challenges, innovations and opportunities
(Sub)system Development
- Launch system development
- Satellite system innovation
- Propulsion technology
- Laser communication
Components and Materials
- Material innovation
- Electronics and electrical systems
Services
- Testing services
- Design and engineering services
- Data analysis

Participant Expenses

All expenses incurred by participants in any part of this competition, including, but not limited to, travel expenses to participate in the live competition on stage at Space Tech Expo, remain the responsibility of the participants.

Requirements

All participants and submissions must meet the requirements set forth below in order to participate in the competition.
- Adult participants.
- Legally registered entity.
- Not publicly traded.
- No exit/liquidity event.
- Based in and owned, controlled, or influenced by citizens of the U.S., the Five Eyes, NATO, or other Allied nations.
- No connection whatsoever by ownership, investment, supply chain, or influence of any kind to China, Russia, or any prohibited country as listed by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control.
- Submissions, including all materials, must be in English, unless otherwise specified.

Criteria

Applications will be evaluated for selection to present at Space Tech Expo based in whole or in part on the following criteria: