Space Business Podcast #96 Alvaro Alonso Ruiz: Leanspace

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