The Dutch start-up company EstrellaSat was founded by Jean Verhardt. The company will provide complete turnkey systems to customers, including installation onboard customers' field equipment, installation of ground station channel units at customers’ premises and the development of software specific to customer needs. EstrellaSat is supported by ESA's Business Incubation with technical assistance from the Agency's specialists, in particular in the area of bundling and extracting data for transmission. The start-up company is hosted at the ESA Business Incubation Centre at ESTEC since January 2008.