The SpaceX Ecosystem,
mapped person by person.

01Four concentric circles of influence

"Network" on LinkedIn means a private friend-list nobody can buy. So we reconstruct it from something stronger and verifiable: shared work history. Who was inside SpaceX, who left and where they landed, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with them, and which companies the diaspora now runs. Four rings, each one a sellable segment.

02Circle 0 — the core asset

Everyone can scrape "people who say SpaceX on LinkedIn". We resolve the real entity (company_id 30846) and split it by tenure, so you know who is inside today versus who already carries the brand into the wild.

03Circle 1 — where the diaspora went

This is the part most lists skip. We followed the SpaceX cohort to their current employer and ranked the destinations. This is the live map of where SpaceX DNA is concentrated right now — the exact target list for poaching, partnerships, or competitive intel.

04Circle 2 — the colleagues

Beyond SpaceX itself, who did these people work alongside? We surfaced every other employer the SpaceX cohort shares — the companies where a SpaceX colleague is one desk away. These are warm-intro bridges and second-degree targets. (14,520 shared-employer records in unresolvable LinkedIn "dust-bucket" / aggregator entities and self-employment buckets were excluded from this ranking.)

05Where they are — and where they came from

06Circle 3 — founders & funds

The diaspora doesn't just join companies — it starts them, runs them, and funds them. This is the layer VCs, executive search and co-investors are really chasing: the SpaceX alumni who became founders, CEOs and investors. All of it derived from current roles in our work-history graph — no guesswork.

07Investments & funds — the capital around the sphere

Who funds the SpaceX ecosystem? We joined the diaspora's NewSpace companies to real Crunchbase funding records — total raised, rounds and named investors at company level. This is the capital map: which VCs, strategics and government programs are buying into the SpaceX orbit, how deep, and into what.

Funds & investors most active in the SpaceX ecosystem (by # of diaspora companies backed)

Source: Crunchbase company-level funding (crunchbase_company2) joined to the diaspora's companies by ID, with investor entity IDs resolved to fund/organization and person names. Crunchbase lists a lead/notable subset per company (≈10 max), so cap tables are floors, not the full roster. SpaceX's own raise is shown separately, not in the ecosystem total. Full cap tables, deal terms and partner-level contacts available on request.

08The connection score — how we rank

This is the methodology we apply when we turn the map into a ranked, per-person graph (the enrichment step). Each signal below is computable from the same work-history data — together they turn fuzzy "network" into a single defensible number, so the strongest SpaceX ties rise to the top instead of a flat list. The scored graph ships with the enrichment phase, not with this sizing map.

09What you get

Method. Anchored on the real SpaceX entity (company_id 30846) inside a 1.17B-profile professional graph. Tenure split, alumni-destination and shared-employer graphs computed over 5.6B career positions; contact coverage measured against an 823M-record email graph + enrichment store. "Network" is reconstructed from shared work history (co-tenure / alumni / shared employers), not from private LinkedIn connections — a stronger, auditable signal. Counts are consolidated across duplicate LinkedIn company entities for the same employer (e.g. Anduril, Rocket Lab, Firefly each carry several IDs, summed). Founders/CEOs and investors are identified by classifying each person's current job title (founder/CEO/owner vs investor/VC/GP/angel) within the diaspora; placeholder "Stealth", student rocketry clubs and ambiguous "partner" titles are filtered out. Funding figures come from Crunchbase data joined to the diaspora's companies by company ID; Crunchbase typically names only lead/notable investors per round, so investor lists and capital sums are floors, and SpaceX's own (fragmentary) rounds are excluded from the capital ranking.
Integrity. Every number on this page is a live query result. Nothing is estimated, padded or fabricated. Tenure buckets overlap and are not additive — only 42,170 is a unique-person total. Cluster chips and company tables cover the ranked head of destinations, not every employer the diaspora reached. 259 alumni-placements and 14,520 shared-employer records in unresolvable LinkedIn dust-bucket / aggregator entities and "Self-employed / Stealth" buckets were excluded from the rankings. Contact data is counted here for sizing only — not exported in this phase.
Outricher · SpaceX Ecosystem Intelligence · 2026-06-14 · confidential market sample.