layrd venture
A venture studio for companies above the Earth.
Back the vision.And the two people building it.
See the path ↓Three layers.
One you can ask.
Each phase adds data that is harder to get than the one below — and all of it answers through the same question.
Open data, made queryable
Sentinel, Copernicus, Landsat, OpenStreetMap — free and public, joined into one system you can ask.
Exclusive & proprietary data
Licensed datasets no one else combines, plus data we generate ourselves.
Our own sources
Own satellites and sensors. Data that exists nowhere else.
The track record.
Advised on and accompanied, from the first round onwards.
Combined annual revenue of the companies we advise.
Average, within the first three months.
SMEs and startups up to 250 employees.
Advising companies — successful from the first month.
of the companies we have advised never went insolvent — over six years, startups included.
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We start from a problem we can see from orbit, not from a pitch deck.
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We build the company ourselves, from the first line of code to the first customer.
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Every company shares the same engine, data and people.
We start on the ground, with applications like rekon — and build upward: earth observation, in-orbit services, and in time our own satellites & payloads.
Sovereignby design.
Europe's view of itself should be built in Europe — its data, its infrastructure, and in time its satellites.
What sovereign meansfor how we build.
European data at the base
Our first layer is built on Copernicus and Sentinel — Europe's own Earth observation programmes.
Built in Europe
Founded and built in Germany, for European companies, operators and institutions.
Our own sources, in time
Every layer we add makes the stack less dependent on anyone else — up to satellites of our own.
The heart of the system.One data lake.
Every source we gather, and every source you bring, flows into one lake — and everything we build draws from it.