Hélène Huby

Hélène Huby is Founder & CEO of The Exploration Company (TEC), the fastest growing European space tech startup. Over 4 years, TEC has grown from 4 to 400 employees, raised 225 million EUR from tier-1 European venture funds, signed 850 million EUR contracts, and opened offices in France, Germany, Italy, USA and UAE. TEC is the only European startup where both French and German governments sit as Board Observers, and TEC is the first and only European space company having signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. TEC produces space capsules that carry goods and humans to space stations. These technologies also serve defense needs to protect space assets in situ. TEC has won the European cargo capsule competition, pioneering a new private-public partnership business model to finance European space infrastructures.