What it sells
We Mine Asteroids
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
Commercial teams, researchers and startups buying payload capacity on the DeepSpace bus (up to 50 kg, ESPA-class, up to 2-year mission life); future buyers of PGM commodity.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
UnverifiedStartups and researchers wanting low-cost deep-space access without building their own spacecraft.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Builds low-cost spacecraft that rendezvous with near-Earth asteroids (DeepSpace-2, launching 2027 per site) to prospect and later mine and refine metals in space; the Solo AI model flies the craft autonomously.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Plans to sell platinum group metals mined from asteroids, claiming ~85% asteroid PGM margins versus ~7% for terrestrial mining; also sells hosted payload space on its DeepSpace bus.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
UnverifiedDirect: payload customers contact AstroForge; PGM output would be sold into commodity markets.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2022 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.