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 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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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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Jobs

≈ $73k – $146k per year (Estimated) · Equity 0.2–0.8% · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Hawthorne
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≈ $67k – $120k per year (Estimated) · Equity 0.2–0.8% · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Hawthorne
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$120k – $170k per year · Equity 0.2–0.8% · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Hawthorne
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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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Shared investors3
23 portfolio companies: Fractile, Zydro, Zystem and 20 more
Garage CapitalVia a fund
151 portfolio companies: Ollama, Absorb, Vinnauto and 148 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

News FOX 10 Phoenix 10 months ago
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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News Space 10 months ago
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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News FOX 32 Chicago 10 months ago
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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News Payload 10 months ago
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
seen since Sep 2026