RLVNews points to an ESA report on two entrepreneurial startups which were recently assisted by ESA's own Open Skies Technology Fund:

• Venture Capital Fund backs business opportunities from space -- ESA News

There will be an ESA-sponsored Investment Forum in Milan on 5th October in association with Europe Unlimited, a private company providing "critical business resources to innovative technology entrepreneurs, corporations, investors and researchers, allowing them to successfully build and maintain a healthy economy".

“The ESA Investment Forums are an attractive showcase for the commercial potential associated with space borne research and the commercialisation of space technologies and satellite applications in non-space markets,” says Dr Berndt Geiger, manager of the Triangle Venture Capital Group.