Pan Galactic Developments Ltd
Humber based Space start-up Pan Galactic Developments Ltd has been named as the Business to Business Start Up of the Year 2024 for the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber StartUp Awards as part of the UK StartUP Awards.
Pan Galactic are also finalists for the National award at the UK StartUp Awards later this September and were also shortlisted as national finalists for Innovative StartUp of the Year category.
Pan Galactic are a UK Space Start Up on the UK Space Agency Accelerator programme having graduated the Explore programme last year and currently completing the LEO programme.
Pan Galactic are building the future quantum secure data systems for Space and Earth through their development of the Pan Galactic Blockchain and their operating system GalacticOS.
This platform aims to provide the benefit of protections against cyber-attacks from both traditional and future quantum computers whilst also providing the benefits of blockchain in securing the integrity and reliability of data.
The use of this tech will provide a useful way to make use of blockchain technologies in commercial applications and a means by which organisations can work in collaboration with each other across the same platform.
Pan Galactic are also breaking new ground in the use of blockchain and Space technologies for sustainability with the support of partners Optimal Cities and the PATT foundation, supported by the European Space Agency and others.
Earlier this year, working with partners, Pan Galactic's CEO Flow Collingwood and CSO Alan Raw have co-founded the Royal Society of the Arts' first ever Space community 'Space4Space' in its 270 year history as a key institution. This community is designed to help support and promote the future of Space exploration and Innovation and is one of the fastest growing communities with the RSA at this time, welcoming people from a plethora of industries to help consider the future of Space.
FLOW COLLINGWOOD LLB FRSA CEO and co-founder of PAN GALACTIC said:
“To have won the Business to Business Start Up of the Year award in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber regions really does mean a lot to us, especially when seeing some of the other great businesses who were also finalists.
We were also delighted to be shortlisted as national finalists for Innovative StartUp of the Year and these opportunities and recognition are a great motivator to the whole team and show that the team’s hardwork is moving the business forward on the correct trajectory.
We are excited to see how we place in the national awards later this year and are looking forward to attending Ideas Fest 2024.”
The UK StartUp Awards were established to highlight the success of startups across ten UK nations and regions, including the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, and to celebrate the achievements of entrepreneurs in all sectors of the economy.
Supported nationally by Starling Bank, Airwallex, Chime Agency, Development Bank of Wales, EvaBuild, ForrestBrown, GiftRound, GS1 UK, Join Talent, OVHcloud, Project Simply, ScoreApp, SFC Capital and Welsh Government, Harriet Rees, CIO at Starling Bank says:
“Turning an idea into a successful business takes a lot of courage and dedication. Congratulations to Pan Galactic on winning their category in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and making it to this year’s UK national final. Start-ups need certainty to plan ahead. It’s great to see so many thrive, especially in these challenging economic times.”
Over 70,000 new firms were created in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber in 2023 and according to Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE, creator of the awards, this demonstrates the growing importance of entrepreneurs to the regional economy. He is also excited that the awards are, yet again, recognising the best new firms from Newcastle to York to Leeds and celebrating the amazing entrepreneurial talent from every corner of the region.
He said: “Start-ups are the life of any economy and that is especially true in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber where new businesses are contributing to job creation, innovation, and prosperity across the whole of this entrepreneurial region. It’s been an honour and a pleasure to read the stories of those founders who have spotted the opportunity and taken the risk to launch their own venture. All of the winners have demonstrated that they deserve to win their categories and I’m looking forward to having the ‘best of the best’ from the region competing at the UK final later this year”
As a regional winner in their category, Pan Galactic will now progress to the UK Startup Awards final being held at Ideas Fest on September 12th, dubbed ‘the Glastonbury for Entrepreneurs’