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Why Us

Beyond capital: specialist experience, insight, and a relentless drive to help build the extraordinary. Scroll down ↓

         
We speak Space

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!
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We open Doors Worldwide

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!
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Proven Value Beyond Capital

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!

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Helping to build the Space Economy

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
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Portfolio

Backing the pioneers building the future of space, technology, and humanity.

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Antaris
Antaris

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Privateer Space
Privateer Space

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Max Space
Max Space

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Specter Aerospace
Specter Aerospace

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Matter Intelligence
Matter Intelligence

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Space Forge
Space Forge

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Helicity Space
Helicity Space

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ATMOS Space Cargo
ATMOS Space Cargo

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Our Startup Accelerators

Highly-specialized help for founders • Early access for investors

India Space Startups

KickSky

India’s first Space startup accelerator

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In-Space Economy

Orbital Edge

Our marquis U.S-based accelerator for startups that can leverage space platforms like the ISS

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Learn About Space

Where ambition meets understanding — learn about Space with E2MC’s thought leadership materials!

     
     
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Space Business Podcast
>140 Episodes, >100 Countries
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To Infinity
Introductory Space Economy Book
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edX/EPFL New Space Economy Course
Introductory Online Course with >30 Videos
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Space Entrepreneurship 101
An online course on the Udemy platform.
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E2MC In The News

Explore the latest from E2MC — insights, investments, and innovations shaping humanity’s future on Earth and beyond.

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November 16, 2025
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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September 23, 2025
Interview with Raphael Roettgen on Cyclop SpaceTech

Prominent space Substack blog Cyclop SpaceTech interviewed E2MC Founding Partner Raphael Roettgen.

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July 5, 2025
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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May 20, 2025
ISS National Lab podcast with E2MC

E2MC founding partner Raphael Roettgen features alongside CNN's space reporter Jackie Wattles on this episode of "Between a Rocket and a Hard Space", the podcast of the ISS National Lab.

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General
April 21, 2025
Outlook on Future Space Economy Applications

Managing E2MC Partner, Raphael Roettgen, partakes in a discussion about the outlook for new applications in the “Future Space Economy”.

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Incubators
April 2, 2025
Launch of Orbital Edge Accelerator

CIRI, E2MC, and Stellar Ventures will invest in six startups in partnership with ISS National Lab.

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Portfolio
October 31, 2024
Matter Intelligence Exits Stealth

E2MC backed Matter Intelligence unveils hyperspectral imaging for Earth observation.

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Portfolio
October 9, 2024
XDLINX Raises Seed Round

E2MC backs XDLINX in $7M raise to develop next-gen satellite payloads.

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