Raphael Roettgen

Founding Partner at E2MC

Interviewer

Raphael Roettgen is the founding partner of E2MC, a space-focused early-stage venture capital firm with over 25 space investments to date. He is also the co-founder of Prometheus Life Technologies, a space biotech startup focused on organoids.

He lectures on space entrepreneurship and finance at several universities including the Swiss Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and International Space University (ISU), hosts the popular Space Business Podcast, and is the author of “To Infinity”, an introductory book on the space economy.

Previously, he held senior roles at global investment banks and hedge funds and was also a fintech entrepreneur in Brazil.

He holds degrees in finance from Wharton, machine learning from PUC-Rio and space studies from the International Space University, where he also serves as a governing member.