Space - The final investment frontier
Why Us
Beyond capital: specialist experience, insight, and a relentless drive to help build the extraordinary. Scroll down ↓
Deep Domain Expertise & Network, built over Decades
- 100+ years of team space experience
- We are entrepreneurs ourselves, including of space startups
- Our advisors include leading space academics, executives, technologists, astronauts
- We understand your technology, your customers … and your dreams!
U.S.-based • Global Network
- Portfolio companies in 8 countries, and a pipeline spanning >40
- Worldwide network of industry, governments, academia and investors
- Established the first space startup accelerator in India
- We can bring U.S. space startups to the world, and vice-versa!
Smart Money • Serious Hustle
- We support you where you need us – be it business development, hiring, fundraising
- Warm intros to stakeholders worldwide
- Tech? We speak your language!
Thought Leadership in Space
- We help bring new participants into the space economy – investors, corporates, and others
- We help tell YOUR story through our outreach
Portfolio
Backing the pioneers building the future of space, technology, and humanity.
Antaris
Privateer Space
Max Space
Specter Aerospace
Matter Intelligence
Space Forge
Helicity Space
ATMOS Space Cargo
Our Startup Accelerators
Highly-specialized help for founders • Early access for investors
Orbital Edge
Our marquis U.S-based accelerator for startups that can leverage space platforms like the ISS
Learn About Space
Where ambition meets understanding — learn about Space with E2MC’s thought leadership materials!
E2MC In The News
Explore the latest from E2MC — insights, investments, and innovations shaping humanity’s future on Earth and beyond.
Raphael Roettgen on the Wealthing Podcast
The Frontier Edge: Raphael Roettgen on Hedge Fund Exits, Early SpaceX Bets, and Investing in the Space Economy
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Startup discovery platform Ideabaaz buys stake in KickSky Space Lab
Ideabaaz, a startup discovery and entrepreneurship platform, has acquired a strategic 25% stake in KickSky Space Lab, the country’s maiden venture capital (VC)-backed space-tech accelerator, co-founded by E2MC.
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Scientific American: SpaceX historic IPO ignites the new space race
Raphael Roettgen is quoted in a Scientific American article on the SpaceX IPO.
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Scientific American: Inside NASA’s ‘very ambitious’ moon base plan
Scientific American interviewed space leaders including E2MC's Raphael Roettgen for this article on the Moon.
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SatShow 2026 Investor Panel
E2MC Partner Raphael Roettgen joined the investor panel at the SatShow 2026 conference in Washington DC.
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Keynote on Space and Defense at Infotér Conference
Our Founding Partner Raphael Roettgen gave a keynote, and joined a panel, on space and defense investing at Hungary's Infotér conference in October 2025.
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Interview with Raphael Roettgen on Cyclop SpaceTech
Prominent space Substack blog Cyclop SpaceTech interviewed E2MC Founding Partner Raphael Roettgen.
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Multiplanetary Society Podcast with Raphael Roettgen
In this episode, Raphael Roettgen, the founding partner of space focused VC firm Earth to Mars Capital (E2MC), speaks about the role of venture capital in the space ecosystem, why in space manufacturing may be the next big application, and how the military and civil space ecosystems interact.
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