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Space Guardian

the coordination layer for space

Space is becoming critical infrastructure. We're building the system that keeps it working.

Luka Zlatečan, CEO

Friday Pitch Session · Hosted by Plug and Play · July 24, 2026

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Imagine waking up tomorrow and GPS doesn't work.

No weather forecasts. No secure communications.

Not because of a cyberattack, but because space became unusable overnight.

SpaceGuardian · Plug and Play · Friday Pitch Session
Why Now

Manual coordination cannot scale

45,000 trackable objects in orbit today
90 new satellites launching every week
100,000 active satellites by 2030
Coordination still done by calls, emails, and manual decisions

When it fails, satellites collide. Missions are lost. Millions are burned.

✦ FUN FACT

Dec 2025: a Chinese rocket payload missed Starlink-6079 by just 200 m.

Solution

The coordination layer for space

01
Detect
Collision risks identified in real time, with optimized maneuver options ready to act on.
02
Bid
Maneuvering costs fuel and mission life, so nobody wants to be the one to move. Operators bid what they'll pay the other to do it, with an AI agent able to negotiate on their behalf. Settled the moment a bid is accepted.
03
Execute
The agreed maneuver is carried out. End-to-end, transparent, auditable.

Finance has exchanges.

Aviation has air traffic control.

Space has nothing.

We're building it.

Sneak Peek

Live today

SpaceGuardian operator dashboard with 3D Earth view and conjunction alerts
Operators see real collision risks and evaluate optimized maneuvers.
SpaceGuardian collision bidding session interface
Two operators resolve coordination in real time.
Traction

Where we are today

2× CASSINI grants
EU space entrepreneurship program
Non-dilutive funding
Phase 2 CASSINI grant
Platform running on real data
Live conjunction feeds from international space-surveillance providers
Pilot + LOI
Shadow-mode pilot in preparation with an Austrian space company · LOI with a Slovenian defence simulation company
Market

100,000 satellites by 2030. Every one needs coordination.

100,000satellites in orbit by 2030
× €45kper satellite per year (mid-tier)
= €4.5Bserviceable addressable market
$15B by 2030Broader STM market (we sit in the coordination slice)

Every launch grows the market.

Business Model

Subscription per satellite, transaction fee per resolved event

Small operators
€20k
/sat/yr
Mid-size fleets
€45k
/sat/yr
Mega-constellations
Custom
enterprise
CAC (projected)
€15k
LTV (projected)
€150k
Gross margin (projected)
70%
ARR 2030 (target)
€80M
Team

We've shipped before. We're shipping this.

Luka Zlatečan
CEO
10+ yrs scaling SaaS
Jernej Jan Kočica
CTO
PhD · control & simulation
Janez Lapajne
Head of AI
PhD · ML & computer vision
Tim Šfiligoj
COO & UI/UX
80+ launches · 10 countries
SpaceGuardian

Space is becoming critical infrastructure.

Without coordination, it breaks.

We're building the system that keeps it working.

We're raising
€840k pre-seed
2-year runway · 3 paid pilots → first €1M ARR

If you believe space will scale, this needs to exist. And we're the ones building it.

Luka Zlatečan, CEO

luka.zlatecan@spaceguardian.eu

spaceguardian.eu

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