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Our Ecosystem

Space Grove connects industry, academia, government, and investors through one collaborative platform, bringing together the partnerships, resources, and capital needed to turn opportunities into real-world results across space, defense, and advanced technology.

Our Ecosystem

Rooted on the Space Coast. Connected across borders.

Space Grove builds relationships across industry, academia, government, workforce, and investment communities. These connections create pathways for research collaboration, commercialization, business growth, and international engagement.

University Hubs & Research Collaborations

Florida Tech Vertex Applied Innovation Hub

Space Grove is collaborating with Florida Tech’s Vertex Applied Innovation Hub to advance technology commercialization, workforce development, and industry growth across space, defense, and advanced technology.

The collaboration provides a framework for applied research, technology validation, joint programs, workshops, and funding opportunities, connecting Florida Tech’s expertise and resources with Space Grove’s industry, government, workforce, and investor networks.

The planned arrangement includes shared space at Vertex for recurring Space Grove office hours, stakeholder meetings, and collaborative activities, coordinated in advance and subject to availability.

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The Ohio State University

Space Grove is developing a collaboration with The Ohio State University’s VISTA Space Science Park team to connect research, startups, and industry around emerging commercial-space opportunities. Together, we are exploring pathways for Ohio-based innovation, including space agriculture, in-space manufacturing, and technology commercialization, while creating stronger bridges between university research, founders, capital, and real-world market opportunities.

Through its Ohio presence with Rev1 Ventures, Space Grove has convening capability within the broader Columbus innovation ecosystem. This gives Space Grove a practical base for building relationships, hosting conversations, and connecting Ohio-based founders and researchers to national space, defense, and commercialization opportunities.
The relationship aligns with Ohio State’s growing Innovation District and its vision for a connected environment where research, talent, entrepreneurship, and industry move ideas from discovery to deployment.

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VISTA Space Science Park at The Ohio State University
Rev1 Ventures

Florida A&M University

Space Grove is working with Florida A&M University as the academic and community-health anchor for an HBCU-led Connected Campus Innovation Network. The work is designed to bring research, workforce development, connected health, and commercialization together around solutions that serve students, athletes, families, and surrounding communities.
With FAMU, Space Grove is convening technology, healthcare, and research partners to explore AI-enabled diagnostics, telehealth, remote monitoring, accessibility, resilient connectivity, and care models that can reach rural and disconnected communities. The model is being designed to create practical student research and workforce pathways while building toward scalable applications in emergency response, hospital-at-home care, travel, defense, and eventually space-based health systems.

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Florida A&M University.

Strategic Collaborations & MOU's

TD Synnex

Space Grove is developing a strategic relationship with TD SYNNEX to help shape its entry into the space and defense technology market. TD SYNNEX is a global technology distributor and solutions aggregator that connects leading and emerging technology providers with the infrastructure, channels, expertise, and market access needed to deploy solutions at scale.
Space Grove brings the space-industry ecosystem, use cases, and relationships that can translate TD SYNNEX’s technology portfolio into meaningful opportunities across space, defense, and dual-use markets. Together, we are exploring how to connect innovative companies with technology partners, vendors, workforce pathways, government and prime-contractor engagement, and new routes to market.

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TD SYNNEX

The DiSTI Corporation

Space Grove is working with The DiSTI Corporation to connect advanced simulation, human-machine interface technology, and immersive training capabilities with emerging opportunities in space, defense, workforce development, and higher education.
DiSTI brings more than three decades of experience in virtual maintenance training, modeling and simulation, and safety-critical interface development. Together, Space Grove and DiSTI are building relationships across universities, industry, and government to explore practical workforce pathways, research collaboration, and technology applications that strengthen readiness for the next generation of aerospace and defense systems.

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The DiSTI Corporation

JivaJet

Space Grove is working with JivaJet to advance the commercialization and market development of next-generation plasma propulsion technology. JivaJet is developing propulsion platforms designed to help satellites maneuver, maintain position, and operate in Very Low Earth Orbit, where conventional systems face significant limits.
Space Grove supports JivaJet through strategic introductions, partnership development, and connections to customers, investors, and collaborators across the commercial-space, defense, and national-security ecosystem. The work is focused on helping move breakthrough propulsion technology from technical promise toward real market opportunity.

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JivaJet

LifeBot

Space Grove is working with LifeBot to advance connected-care opportunities across higher education, community health, emergency response, defense, and space-based health systems.

LifeBot delivers resilient telemedicine, remote diagnostics, and care-coordination technology designed for demanding environments. Through the HBCU Connected Campus work with FAMU and other ecosystem partners, Space Grove is helping convene the relationships needed to explore accessible, connected-care models that support students, athletes, families, rural communities, and frontline responders.

The work connects technology, research, workforce development, and commercialization to help bring hospital-grade care closer to the people and places that need it most. lifebothealth.com

Space Generation Fusion Forum

Space Grove engages with the Space Generation Fusion Forum, an international gathering of emerging space leaders held in conjunction with Space Symposium. The Forum convenes students and young professionals with established leaders across government, industry, academia, and the global space community.

Through this engagement, Space Grove helps connect next-generation talent to real-world conversations around commercialization, workforce development, dual-use innovation, and the future of the space economy. It reflects Space Grove’s commitment to creating pathways for new voices, cross-sector collaboration, and globally connected leadership in space.

International Collaborations

Italian Trade Agency

Space Grove is engaging with the Italian Trade Agency to strengthen relationships between the Florida space and technology ecosystem and Italy’s innovation community. ITA is the Italian government agency that supports international business development, trade relationships, and foreign investment.

Through the ITA delegation to Maker Faire Rome, Space Grove is connecting with Italian startups, research organizations, investors, and technology companies with potential applications in the U.S. market. The engagement supports technology scouting, cross-border partnerships, and market-entry opportunities for companies operating across space, defense, advanced manufacturing, and dual-use innovation.

Business France

Space Grove is engaging with Business France, France’s national agency for international business development and investment, to help connect French space and advanced-technology companies with opportunities in the United States.

The collaboration focuses on practical U.S. market entry, including strategic introductions, ecosystem navigation, customer and partner discovery, and pathways into the Florida Space Coast’s space, defense, research, and commercialization networks. Space Grove serves as a connective platform for French innovators seeking meaningful relationships, market insight, and a potential landing point in the U.S. space economy.

Business France’s French Space Hub accelerator supports French NewSpace companies expanding into the U.S. market.

UK Space Agency

Space Grove engages with the UK Space Agency and the broader UK space ecosystem to strengthen transatlantic relationships among innovators, investors, research institutions, and commercial partners.

This engagement creates pathways for U.K. and Florida companies to explore market access, strategic introductions, technology collaboration, and commercialization opportunities across the space and dual-use sectors. Space Grove helps connect these conversations to the Florida Space Coast, where the UK Space Agency and Space Florida are also advancing a formal innovation partnership for joint research and commercialization projects.

JETRO

Space Grove engages with JETRO, the Japan External Trade Organization, to strengthen business connections between Japan, Florida, and the U.S. space and technology ecosystem.

The relationship supports Japanese companies exploring U.S. market opportunities and U.S. companies seeking connections in Japan. Space Grove helps translate those connections into practical pathways for market entry, strategic introductions, technology collaboration, and relationships across space, defense, advanced technology, and commercialization.

Read JETRO’s feature on Space Grove and Dr. Melissa Patton’s vision for Florida’s space-industry ecosystem: “The Future Vision for the Space Industry Ecosystem in Florida”.

Founder Leadership & Advisory Roles

Contributing to the conversations shaping what comes next.

Dr. Melissa Patton contributes to industry, academic, and workforce priorities through board, advisory, and strategic council appointments.

Strategic Council, SpaceCom

Deans Advisory Board, University of Central Florida College of Sciences

Executive Advisory Council, Space Workforce Institute

Advisory Board, Up/Link Space Tech Business Summit

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