Urania Ventures

Lovely Day Foods is a European food biotech company creating the next generation of foods for a kinder future of our planet. Perfeggt, the company's product brand, launched its first generation of egg replacers based on pea protein for food service. Together with more than 50 partners, the company replaced over one million chicken eggs with dishes such as Perfeggt scrambled, omelets, quiches, pancakes and waffles that were served in hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, canteens and events across Germany and Austria. In 2023, Perfeggt was named #20 out of 50 most popular startup brands in Germany based on a survey by Jung von Matt with 48.000 participants.

Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to help its customer produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Its bio-farming technology combines automated farms (Biopods), AI and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. Its considerably accelerates plant growth while optimizing plant molecular composition. Interstellar Lab provides sustainable plant-based ingredient solutions to large health, beauty and F&B companies. Its bio-farming technology has also convinced NASA and ESA, which contracted with the company to adapt the system for space deployment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists and researchers located between its flagship 65,000SF BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), its SpaceLab at NASA KSC Florida (USA) and its Business Hub in San Francisco (USA).

Astrome Technologies delivers a comprehensive understanding of design, development, and production in all engineering domains required to deliver a complete solution. The company intends to form strategic alliances with telecom carriers, satellite operators, wireless equipment manufacturers, system integrators, governments, and telecom infrastructure providers. Through hardware innovation in phased array antennas and software innovation in beam-forming and beam-steering, it is constantly creating the next generation millimeter-wave wireless devices.

ClearSpace is a spin-off of EPFL and was founded in early 2018 to lead the development of sustainable in-orbit services in the tracks of the EPFL CleanSpace One (CSO) mission. ClearSpace develops on-orbit technologies and provides services for non-functional satellites in orbit. ClearSpace has signed a service contract with ESA to lead the first mission to remove a Space Debris autonomously called ClearSpace-1.