SatVu was founded to bring to market high frequency and commercially available high-resolution thermal imagery from space.
After a period of research and development, in 2021 the company was awarded £1m from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme to build the compact high-resolution infrared camera which would eventually go into space on the company’s first satellite.
In 2022 the company demonstrated the concept from planes – flying a camera over parts of Europe and North America to show its future capabilities. This aerial data showed some of the first environmental use cases of the data.
The company’s first satellite HotSat-1 launched in June 2023. Two more satellites (HotSat-2 and HotSat-3) will be launched in 2025.
We've delivered a step change in EO sensor and processing technology, and our constellation will achieve global coverage with 10-20 revisits per day.
Anthony has over 20 years’ experience in innovative satellite companies. He has held roles as first CEO at Es’hailSat – The Qatar Satellite Company, Vice President at SES of Luxembourg, and worked at AsiaSat in Hong Kong and NATO in the Netherlands.
Toby is an experienced geographic information system developer and remote sensing specialist focusing on new-age space data solutions. He is well versed in cloud computing processing pipelines to feed analytical systems in order to extract knowledge from pixels.
Camilla has spent the last 10 years working with a number of prominent climate / impact tech startup and scale-up businesses, both as a full-time and portfolio CFO. She began her career in commercial roles at two climate startups and spent 7 years at a specialist climate / clean tech fund as an investor.
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Patrick is a Venture Partner for Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC and was the former chair of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. He was a Director at Virgin from 2001 and developed businesses including Virgin Active and Virgin Trains. His most recent role was senior partner at Virgin Group. He played a key role in brokering the agreement for Virgin to launch a satellite from Cornwall in 2023.
Before joining Molten Ventures, George was a founder of an energy-tech start-up. Prior to being an entrepreneur George worked in public market equities at Credit Suisse for 6 years and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Within Molten Ventures, George works both within the Fund of Funds programme and on direct investments where his primary focus is on climate-tech.
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