🚀 AX Newsletter | 2024 round-up and looking ahead to 2025 ✨ portfolio news, jobs and more!
Included in this week’s edition of the AX Newsletter:
✨ Looking Back on AX in 2024 ✨
🎉 We’ve been nominated for the Global Startup Awards Edition 11
🇶🇦 We’ll be at Quantum.Tech Qatar in January
👩💻 Women of Silicon Roundabout Roundup
🗞️ News highlights from our portfolio companies
📣 Job openings
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Looking Back on AX in 2024 ✨
This year, Aerospace Xelerated officially turned five years old. We’re incredibly grateful to our partners, portfolio companies, and team members who have made it all possible. Together, over the last 5 years, we have:
Accelerated 40+ startups across 14 countries and 4 continents.
Helped portfolio companies achieve a 95% survival rate, raising £250M+ in follow-on funding and creating nearly 1000 highly skilled jobs worldwide.
Championed diversity with 26% female-founded companies and 33% with founders from ethnic minorities.
Helped launch new innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives like the Kuwait Digital Startup Campus with corporate and government partners.
Looking ahead to 2025, AX Managing Partner Nichola Bates says:
“The aerospace sector is a challenging and dynamic space, and I’m continually inspired by the impact we’ve made in such a short time. As we look ahead to the new year, I’m excited to see our portfolio companies continue to grow, our partnerships strengthen, and the momentum of innovation in aerospace accelerate even further. The best is yet to come!”
As we close out 2024, we wanted to share just a few of our many highlights for the year in our latest blog 🙌
Happy holidays and Happy New Year. We hope to collaborate with you in 2025!
We’ve been nominated for the Global Startup Awards Edition 11 🎉
We're delighted to share that we've been nominated for the regional round of
the Global Startup Awards Edition 11, in the Accelerator / Incubator Programme category!
The Global Startup Awards is the world’s largest independent startup ecosystem competition, spanning 120 countries across 12 distinct regions. This nomination recognises our commitment to innovation and impact in the startup ecosystem.
We’ll be at Quantum.Tech Qatar in January 🇶🇦
Our AX Managing Partner, Nichola Bates, will be speaking at the Quantum.Tech Qatar Conference in Doha this January.
📆 13th-15th January 2025
📍 Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl – Doha, Qatar
Quantum Tech is the global business conference and exhibition for the commercial applications of Quantum technology. The event will feature insights from industry leaders exploring how the Middle East is shaping its quantum strategy and becoming a key player in cryptography, sensing, quantum AI, security, and more.
🎟️ Register now and get 20% off with code QTSpeaker20 ⬇️
Women of Silicon Roundabout Roundup 👩💻
Our Managing Partner, Nichola Bates, recently spoke at the Women of Silicon Roundabout event in London - the UK’s largest tech event for women, which welcomed over 4,000 attendees and 250+ speakers this year 🚀
In her session, “Why Culture Matters: Corporate and Start-Up Worlds”, Nichola shared insights on the challenges female founders and female VCs face when trying to secure funding. Drawing from her decade of experience in the industry, she also outlined actionable steps VCs can take to foster a more inclusive and diverse environment.
Portfolio news 🗞️
Quaisr advances to Phase 2 of the Made Smarter UK Innovation Sustainability Accelerator
A big congrats to our Portfolio Company Quaisr, who made it to Phase 2 of the Made Smarter UK Innovation Sustainability Accelerator! 🚀
Quaisr are among four cohort companies who will present their solutions and how they tackle some of the most pressing manufacturing challenges in UK manufacturing, at the showcase event in February 2025.
ToffeeX achieve major milestone in heat sink design
In collaboration with Imperial College London and the University of Wolverhampton, ToffeeX has harnessed multiscale modelling and high-purity copper additive manufacturing (3D printing) to revolutionise thermal management systems.
Supported by NATEP - National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme and Innovate UK, the project is set to transform thermal management systems by introducing a groundbreaking approach to design and simulation.
Circulor partners with Cyclic Materials
Exciting news from our portfolio company, Circulor, who have partnered with Cyclic Materials to deliver the world’s first end-to-end traceability for rare earth elements 🌍
📣 Job Openings at AX Portfolio Companies
Have a look at some of the current job openings available at our portfolio companies. If any of these roles sound like a great fit for you, apply using the links below - best of luck! ✨
Multiple roles available
Location:
Role: Chief Engineer
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Multiple roles available
Location: Remote / Hybrid
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If you have any news, questions or feedback for the team, please contact us at hello@xelerated.aero - have a great weekend!