Seed round · In-space resources & manufacturing

From stardust,
we build worlds.

Every planet, moon, and living thing began as scattered matter drawn together by gravity. Stardust Universe builds the infrastructure that does this on purpose — turning raw material in orbit and beyond into the foundations of a multi-planetary economy.

01 — The problem

The space economy has no supply chain.

Every payload in orbit today was built on Earth and paid the full cost of leaving it. As satellite, habitat, and eventually settlement demand grows, that math stops working — the industry needs material and manufacturing capacity that originates in space, not underneath it.

$40k+
Cost per kilogram to launch material to low Earth orbit today
~40%
Of a typical satellite's mass is structural material that could be sourced off-Earth
0
Commercial-scale in-space material processing facilities operating today

02 — The platform

Four divisions, one supply chain.

Stardust Universe is structured as an integrated pipeline — from raw material to finished structure — rather than a single point solution.

Extract

Stardust Extract

Identifies and processes raw material from near-Earth asteroids and lunar regolith into usable feedstock.

Forge

Stardust Forge

Orbital manufacturing facilities that turn feedstock into structural components in microgravity.

Relay

Stardust Relay

Logistics layer moving material and finished parts between extraction sites, orbit, and customers.

Labs

Stardust Labs

R&D arm developing the materials science and processing methods the other three divisions run on.

03 — Roadmap

A sequence, not a wishlist.

Each phase funds and de-risks the next. We start where the economics already work.

Phase 01
Year 1–2

LEO manufacturing pilot

Small-scale orbital fabrication using Earth-launched feedstock, proving the Forge process and securing first satellite-operator customers.

Phase 02
Year 3–4

Lunar regolith processing

Deploy Extract's first surface unit to begin sourcing feedstock off-Earth, cutting Forge's input costs and validating ISRU at scale.

Phase 03
Year 5+

Integrated supply chain

Relay connects multiple extraction and manufacturing sites into a standing in-space supply chain serving commercial, habitat, and government customers.

04 — Market

Riding an industry that's already moving.

$1.8T
Projected size of the global space economy by the mid-2030s
10,000+
Active satellites in orbit today, a figure climbing every year
3
National space agencies with public lunar resource programs we can partner alongside

05 — The ask

Raising a seed round to fund Phase 01.

$6.5M
Seed round · 18-month runway to LEO manufacturing pilot
Forge pilot hardware & testing45%
Engineering & materials science team30%
Launch & integration partnerships15%
Operations & regulatory10%

We're looking for investors who understand that space infrastructure is a decade-long build — and want in at the phase where the first real facility gets built, not the hundredth deck gets written.