Space Business Podcast #84 Jaume Sanpera, Sateliot: IOT connectivity from space

Our guest this week is Jaume Sanpera, CEO & founder of Sateliot, a Barcelona-based startup providing IOT connectivity from space. IOT is an interesting market which various startups (and established companies) are tackling and we discuss current and future use cases, what technology Sateliot uses, how it is executing its go-to-market, and many other things. You will not want to miss this one. Enjoy!

Sateliot's job board: https://sateliot.space/en/careers/

The English version of Raphael's introductory book to the space economy will be out very soon. There continue to be the Portuguese ("Para cima") and German ("Hoch Hinaus") editions.

Learn more about space & the space economy:

• Check out the edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Do you want to specifically learn about investing in Space? Join the pre-release of Raphael's new live-taught course on Maven: 
  https://maven.com/space-business-institute/investing-course

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro
2:23 Elevator Pitch
3:47 The comparison with satellite-to-mobile 
6:29 Details on system architecture
9:29 Space Debris
10:09 Ground based infrastructure
14:42 Data and use cases
22:32 Spectrum rights
26:33 First coverage areas
28:12 Customer acquisition
34:42 Pricing and what matters to customers
37:27 Ocean-based use cases
41:55 10-year vision
43:20 Challenges for the sector
46:22 Origin story
48:53 Advice on space business
50:17 Sateliot is hiring
51:40 What else is interesting in space
52:45 Sci-Fi