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Ricky D’Costa
Ricky D’Costa is the Founder of OuterSpark. Ricky has spent eight years inside the UK, US and European space ecosystem on the commercial side, leading business development and capture across institutional, defence and commercial customers.
Ricky co-founded a space company, worked in business development at Airbus, and spent three years at the Satellite Applications Catapult, and has bid for public money and sat on the other side deciding who gets it.
Ricky started OuterSpark to make space make sense, for the companies building it and the people who want to join them.
MSc Physics with Satellite Technology · MSc Entrepreneurship · University of Surrey
- UK Space Agency
- European Space Agency
- STFC
- DASA
- Ministry of Defence
- NATO
- US DoD
Eight years on the commercial side.
- Years in the space sector
- 8
- Agencies and defence bodies served
- 7
- MScs, University of Surrey
- 2
- Space company co-founded
- 1
- European Space Agency contract won
- £800k
- Cumulative contract value captured
- £3.5m
- Commercial pipeline growth delivered
- £150k → £500k
- Turnover business plan
- £13m
Space is not a club for engineers.
Universities teach the technology. Nobody teaches how the industry buys, sells, funds itself, hires or decides. OuterSpark does.
On stage and in the classroom.
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