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We are building market infrastructure for the global space economy, a platform where space companies can discover new revenue from sovereign contracts worldwide. Nebex transforms a fragmented, slow, complex industry into a coordinated market, enabling structured execution, visibility into capabilities, and efficient delivery across participants.\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking a Space Startup Ecosystem Manager to focus on building the ecosystem for venture backed space startups.\nYour primary responsibility will be to identify, engage, and build relationships with venture\ncapital firms directly, working on-site with them so that their portfolio companies sign up to and\nonboard onto the platform. This is a portfolio-activation and referral channel, not a capital\ndeployment or investor relations function.\nYou will work directly with fund partners and principals to understand their portfolios, open the\ndoor to the companies within them, and support those companies through onboarding onto the\nplatform alongside the wider supply-side team.\nThis role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and works closely with the Product, Go-to-Market, Customer Success, and Operations teams at Nebex.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. VC Relationship Management & Engagement\nIdentify, develop, and manage high-quality global relationships directly with venture capital firms across the space ecosystem: Early stage and growth stage venture capital funds, Corporate venture arms and strategic investors, Family offices and angel networks.\n\nEngage partners, principals, and portfolio company founders directly.\n\n2. Portfolio Company Sourcing & Onboarding\nWork with VC partners to identify the space and space-adjacent companies within their portfolio\n\nGuide portfolio companies through onboarding onto the platform\n\nEnsure their offerings are clearly defined, structurally usable, and discoverable within the ecosystem\n\nDrive active participation of portfolio companies in platform-driven opportunities\n\n3. Capability Structuring & Resale Enablement\nWork with portfolio companies to define how their components and services can be used within multi-party solutions\n\nCollaborate with internal teams to ensure offerings can be integrated into larger system-level solutions\n\n4. VC Network Development\nBuild depth of coverage across VC firms to support a steady pipeline of portfolio companies onto the platform\n\nIdentify and fill gaps in VC coverage across key ecosystem hubs\n\nEnsure the platform can move beyond one-off introductions to a repeatable portfolio pipeline\n\n5. 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