Raphael Roettgen
Role: Associate
Sites: CDL-Milan, CDL-Paris, CDL-Texas, CDL-Toronto
Stream: Space
Raphael Roettgen is the founding partner of E2MC (Earth-to-Mars Capital, www.e2mc.space), a space-focused early stage venture capital firm with over 30 space investments globally to date. E2MC is also a co-founding entity of two accelerators: KickSky, India’s first space accelerator, and the Orbital Edge accelerator in the U.S.
Besides his VC role, Raphael is a co-founder and acting CEO of Prometheus Life Technologies, a Swiss space biotech startup focused on organoids.
He lectures on space entrepreneurship and finance at several universities including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), International Space University (ISU), and Nova Business School. Raphael 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.