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AstroForge

Winter 2022 · Active

We Mine Asteroids

Location: Huntington Beach, CA, US

Founded: 2021

Team size: 10

About

AstroForge is an asteroid mining company. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, we break it up, refine, and return only what’s valuable.

Founders

  • Matt GialichFounder/CEO

    Matt is an experienced engineering leader with over a decade of leading high-performing engineering teams. At Virgin Orbit, he was responsible for building and hiring all aspects of Avionics and led the flight software and GNC teams during his tenure. After Virgin, he joined Bird scooters as their Director of Vehicle Software and led that team through the development of the Bird 2 and 3 vehicles.