GRU Space
Hotels & Resorts · Space Services
3open roles
3backers · Y Combinator, Entropy Industrial Capital
10+team · employees, estimated range
5technologies in use
Overview
The First Hotel on the Moon Take Part in Humanity's Journey to the Next Frontier. A pressurized test payload is placed on the lunar surface to evaluate controlled environmental conditions, alongside early construction experiments using locally sourced materials.
Funding and backers
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
3
Y Combinator, Entropy Industrial Capital
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 17
Partnership GRU Space and KETIV Technologies Announce Collaboration with Synopsys, Supporting GRU Space's Mission to Enable Humanity's Long-Term Presence on the… · businesswire.com
Jan 2026
Went through Y Combinator
Mar 2025
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Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$170k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Junior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $170k | $170k |
Highest paying role
Mechanical Engineer
$170k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
67% ▼
Hardware
33% ▼
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at GRU Space over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Developer tools
ANSYS
Abaqus
Nastran
AI & ML
GPT-5
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Y CombinatorVia a fund
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News
GRU Space and KETIV Technologies Announce Collaboration with Synopsys, Supporting GRU Space's Mission to Enable Humanity's Long-Term Presence on the Moon
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GRU Space and KETIV Technologies Announce Collaboration with Synopsys, Supporting GRU Space's Mission to Enable Humanity's Long-Term Presence on the Moon
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GRU Space taking $250,000-$1 million deposits to reserve rooms for 1st moon hotel
GRU Space hopes to have the first lunar hotel that will eventually serve as a hub and, in the future, will be the foundation for an established civilization on the moon.
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This company is taking $1 million reservations for hotel rooms on the moon
A California-based start-up wants to open a hotel on the moon by 2032 and is now accepting bookings for the out-of-this world travel experience
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Want to vacation on the moon? GRU Space opens $1M reservations ChicagoLIVE
A California-based startup has opened applications for a planned lunar hotel.
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GRU Space Opens Bookings for Planned Lunar Hotel
GRU Space opened applications for a $1M deposit to reserve a spot in the company's planned lunar hotel, which aims to open its doors by 2032.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hawthorne
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Los Angeles
United States
HQ
Hawthorne
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware
