Analysis

April 22, 2024

How Sweden is failing its spacetechs

“It’s not about the budget,” says one founder who moved his company to Finland


Mimi Billing

6 min read

Photo cred: ReOrbit

Soon after Sethu Saveda Suvanam founded his spacetech startup ReOrbit in Sweden in 2019, he says he realised that the country’s national space agency would hinder rather than help his company. That’s despite the Nordic nation having the EU’s only spaceport and a history of sending astronauts into space. In 2020, Suvanam moved his company to Finland.

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Photo of spacetech startup ReOrbit's CEO and founder Sethu Saveda Suvanam
ReOrbit founder Sethu Saveda Suvanam.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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