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GRU Space

Active · Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth

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About GRU Space

GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory: patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature and pressure extremes. Our first mission lands on the Moon in 2027 to demonstrate in-situ brick manufacturing and habitat deployment. A second mission lays the hotel's foundation inside a lunar cave, and a third opens the first lunar hotel, targeted for 2032. We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan: 1. Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation. 2. Become the Moon Base Company of America: build roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure. 3. Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there. 4. Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow. 5. Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond, reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization. GRU Space is backed by investors in SpaceX and Anduril, is part of Nvidia's Inception program, and our launch generated 1B+ views across 60+ countries, earning invitations to the White House, Senate, and Pentagon.

YC batch
W26 · Winter 2026
Status, per YC
Active
Category
Other
Team size
5
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Checked
7h ago

Changes seen

NameNov 9, 2026

Renamed from Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space).

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GRU Space: questions

Which YC batch was GRU Space in?

GRU Space was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).

Is GRU Space still active?

Y Combinator lists GRU Space as active.

Where is GRU Space based?

GRU Space lists Los Angeles, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.