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Raphael is the managing partner of E2MC Ventures, specialized in space companies worldwide. To learn more, please follow the link below.

Education about space is a necessity to bring ever more people into the space economy – whether as entrepreneurs, employees, investors, customers, or general supporters. Raphael lectures about space business at several institutions including the International Space University.

n Fall 2020, he released the popular Udemy online course Space Entrepreneurship 101, and he collaborated on the edX/EPFL “Space Economy” (link below) MOOC released in 2022.

Raphael is also a mentor to space entrepreneurs at several incubators/accelerators such as Creative Destruction Lab, Seraphim Space Camp and Space2Earth

Raphael is a regular speaker, panelist and moderator at physical and online conferences and other events. He speaks on topics ranging from his core expertise of space investment and business all the way to futurist visions of humanity in space.

You can find examples of previous events here.

The Space Business Podcast aims to bring space entrepreneurship and other space themes to a broad audience. Every two weeks, Raphael talks to a member of the space family, always in non-technical language.

Past guests have included Daniel Faber (CEO of Orbit Fab), Jane Poynter & Taber MacCallum (co-founders of Space Perspective), Matt Desch (CEO of Iridium), Vytenis Buzas (CEO of Nanoavionics), and many others.

The Space Business Podcast is available on all major platforms incl. Apple, Google, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora.

If you are interested in being a guest or sponsor, or have any other suggestion, please email us.

The Space Business Podcast is produced in partnership with the International Space University and sponsored by Nanoavionics.

Raphael’s introductory book on space business Hoch Hinaus was published by Spacewatch.Global in October 2020. Over seventeen chapters and 236 pages, the book explains key trends and activities in space, as well as what humanity’s future in space may look like. Hoch Hinaus is currently available in eBook and paperback format in the original German language edition and in the translated Brazilian Portuguese version.

Space4Impact, an initiative of  the Swiss Space Center and ESA-BIC Switzerland, wants to maximize the positive impact of Space technologies on Earth by linking New Space companies to non-space markets. The goal is to internationally boost the growing New Space Economy in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Raphael is a venture partner of Space4Impact.