Would you invest in space? Raphael Roettgen (Zurich) talks to Jessica Fellowes about the ever-expanding universe for investment and why you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get into it.
Raphael is the founding partner of E2MC, a space-focused early-stage venture capital firm with over 25 space investments to date. As a pioneering and complex VC, he lectures on space entrepreneurship and finance at several universities, is an accomplished podcaster in his own right with ‘Space Business Podcast’ and has written ‘To Infinity,’ an introductory book on the space economy.
Raphael's vision is compelling: "We believe – this sounds ridiculously futuristic – but in a 10-year timeframe, which is the timeframe for a venture capital fund like ours, manufacturing of things in space for use on Earth, like biological materials, advanced materials, is going to become a reality. And it may become a very significant reality."
Episode edited by Vanessa Heaney.
Music by Alex Vickers
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