Tejpaul Bhatia is the Founder and CEO of Nebex, a market infrastructure platform building the financial backbone for the global space economy.

Bhatia served as CEO of Axiom Space for four years, prior to which he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi and spent over three years in startup and executive engagement roles at Google.

Bhatia brings a rare combination of big tech operational experience, institutional finance credibility, and deep commercial space expertise, having personally worked on over $1 billion in deals with sovereign governments, SpaceX, and NASA.

After departing Axiom Space in late 2025, Bhatia co-founded Nebex alongside serial exchange entrepreneur Anand Subramanian and Manlio Di Stefano, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, giving the team unmatched reach across commercial space, capital markets, and international diplomacy.

Nebex raised a landmark $30M seed round co-led by GV (Google Ventures) and Eniac Ventures, with a banking relationship with J.P. Morgan, positioning it as the first cross-border exchange infrastructure platform for the global space economy.