SPACETECH BUSINESS SUMMIT
OCTOBER 20 - 21, 2026
NEW YORK CITY
WHERE SPACETECH DEALS LAUNCH
Two days connecting the founders, investors, and international partners scaling the commercial space economy.
The space economy is no longer emerging.
It’s scaling.
Commercial space demand is real, but the infrastructure connecting founders, capital, and international partners are disconnected. There’s no central place where deals are designed to happen… until now.
2 DAYS
200 Vetted Attendees
12 Major Sponsors
800+ Curated meetings
GUIDED BY AN Advisory Board
What is up/link?
CURATED 1:1 MATCHING
Purposeful introductions between founders, investors, and international partners.
PRIVATE ROUNDTABLES
Closed-door working sessions on the challenges nobody discusses on a public stage.
SMALL GROUP MEETINGS
Pre-arranged sit-downs designed to start deals, not just conversations.
MAINSTAGE PROGRAMMING
The sessions that frame the market and surface where capital is moving next.
Why up/link?
1. Built around deal flow, not panel theater.
Every format in the room is engineered to start a relationship that produces a deal. Nothing is decorative. Invitation-only. Every one earns its place.
2. Three audiences. One purpose.
Up/Link is built for the deals these groups make together: founders raising and scaling SpaceTech companies, investors deploying capital into them, and international partners plugging into the US market. No one in the room is incidental.
3. Where the capital is.
New York is where venture, growth, sovereign, and strategic capital lives. Up/Link is the only SpaceTech summit built around that fact.
Program Preview
Two days, built as a single arc:
Day One makes SpaceTech fundable. Day Two makes it scalable.
October 20
What Actually Gets Funded
How to Underwrite a SpaceTech Deal
A working framework for evaluating commercial traction, IDIQ exposure, and program risk, with the VCs actually doing it.
Commercial First, Government Second
The playbook every funded SpaceTech company is running, codified on stage by the founders who built it.
Underwriting Political Risk
The conversation investors have privately, hosted publicly. Real positions, no talking points.
Cross-Border Capital
Sovereign, strategic, and international flows shaping the next wave of SpaceTech balance sheets.
October 21
Where the Money Moves
The Infrastructure Layer
Power, compute, and connectivity in orbit. Plus the emerging opportunities in orbital data centers, nuclear in space, and quantum in space.
Navigating Procurement
How to move through government and enterprise procurement processes faster — and close more effectively.
National Security as a Customer
How to scale into defense without becoming dependent on it.
Liquidity Pathways
IPO, secondary, strategic exit. What’s actually open right now.
Deal Watch: What Closes in the Next 12 Months
The closing session. Investors and founders predict which SpaceTech deals actually print in 2027 — and what the room should be paying attention to right now.
Program subject to change. Speakers announced on a rolling basis.
Who’s In the room?
200 people moving SpaceTech business forward.
/ Investors & Capital Allocators
Venture, private equity, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth, family offices — the capital being deployed into the space economy.
/ Growth-Stage Founders
Series A and beyond, building and commercializing SpaceTech systems. Plus the primes, integrators, and data services companies they partner with and sell to.
/ International Partners
Sovereign space agencies, international investment delegations, and cross-border partners building the bridges between their markets and US capital.
/ Enterprise Buyers
Insurance, energy, logistics, defense, telecommunications — the companies adopting space-enabled capabilities at scale.
/ Government & Defense
Domestic and international stakeholders shaping procurement, policy, and program development.
PrIcing
General Admission
October 20–21
Full summit access. All sessions, keynotes, roundtables, and networking. Daily breakfast, lunch, and happy hour.
Early Bird
$1,500 (through June 30)
Standard
$1,950
Late Registration
$2,500
Day Of
$2,950
VIP Pass
October 19–21
Everything in GA. Priority access to curated meetings, closed-door roundtables, and an invitation to the 10/19 pre-event reception with speakers, sponsors, and lead investors.
Early Bird
$2,500 (through June 30)
Standard
$2,950
Late Registration
$3,500
Day Of
$3,950