Overview
Wouter Benoot co-founded EDGX in 2023 alongside Nick Destrycker, serving as CTO. A civil engineer by training, Benoot was inspired after finishing second in an ESA trainee programme. He joined as the first employee and was eventually promoted to co-founder and CTO. EDGX raised EUR 2.3M in seed funding from imec.istart and PMV in August 2025.
Career history
In the news
- In de Trends-rubriek met groeibedrijven besteedde het magazine vorige week aandacht aan EDGX, met PMV als investeerder, dat ervoor zorgt dat satellieten zware berekeningen kunnen uitvoeren. “We verwachten steeds meer van satellieten, maar er zitten fysische limieten op hoe snel je een grote hoeveelheid data vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde kunt sturen. Wanneer je die data analyseert om bijvoorbeeld bosbranden of overstromingen te detecteren, is snelheid cruciaal en is het slimmer om dat op de satelliet zelf te doen”, legt Wouter
- In de Trends-rubriek met groeibedrijven besteedde het magazine vorige week aandacht aan EDGX, met PMV als investeerder, dat ervoor zorgt dat satellieten zware berekeningen kunnen uitvoeren. “We verwachten steeds meer van satellieten, maar er zitten fysische limieten op hoe snel je een grote hoeveelheid data vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde kunt sturen. Wanneer je die data analyseert om bijvoorbeeld bosbranden of overstromingen te detecteren, is snelheid cruciaal en is het slimmer om dat op de satelliet zelf te doen”, legt Wouter
- Funny how quickly something becomes the new normal. Three years ago my one and only ambition was to get something into space with my name on it. Now it’s up there, carrying the names of 20 colleagues alongside mine. That first goal feels like ages ago. Soon a lot more units will be flying on customer-owned and operated satellites. But I’m glad we’ve got two missions of our own next year, and we’ve set the bar higher for both. Still raising it 👀 🚀
- Might be time to upgrade my signature (instead of my name awkwardly written), but hey, it's the content that matters ✒️
- Is radiation testing an NVIDIA Jetson Thor dangerous? You'd assume so. During the beam most of the protons slam into the brass collimators and the surrounding equipment. So our test setup comes out mildly radioactive for a couple of days. Now, to be fair, we sit a room away behind several metres of concrete shielding... so there's no real danger. But there's the fan. Our Jetson Thor modules pull up to 130 watts, so we built a cooling rig to keep them running in open air whilst protons bombard the silicon. Don't ask me how, but our
- A month ago, I watched TerraSpark pitch solar power distribution from space. One of the more convincing pitches I've sat through. I walked out completely sold on the vision. One analogy from their CEO Jasper D. stuck with me: He compared pitching space-based solar power to explaining the oil industry to someone 200 years ago. Imagine the pitch back then: we'll drill holes in the seabed, pump up the dinosaur juice, ship it across oceans, and burn it to move everything around. Absurd, right? That's roughly how SBSP sounds right now.
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