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Astroforge

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Matt Galich is the CEO and co-founder of Astroforge, a mining startup developing spacecraft to extract platinum group metals from near-Earth asteroids. observed

fresh · evidence 14d ago 8 sources no confidence data
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Developer momentum
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Traction

No traction data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

No standout signal or flag yet.

7 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

2 claims on record 0 verified 1 contradicted 1 still unproven

Sharpest miss on record: “AstroForge will launch its Broker 2 mission to an asteroid in 2024.” — No launch of AstroForge's Broker 2 mission to an asteroid occurred in 2024; the company has not announced or executed such a mission.

Unproven ≠ false — it means the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

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Founder self-assessment claimed
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VIX signals 3 hard signals across 2 sources ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
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Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? Score breakdown ▾
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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. SEC · primary SEC D/A filed ↗
  2. SEC · primary SEC D filed ↗

Narrative vs. reality Latest SEC filing amends an earlier offering

Reported narrative · Tier 2
No reported round on record.
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
2 Form D
latest filed 2025-01-31 · none near the reported round

The most recent filing is a D/A, amending an offering already filed. An amendment may report sales made since the original and does not date them; its first-sale date is not recorded belongs to the original offering. So the latest financing date is not established. This panel is not saying the money is old, and it is not saying it is new. Neither is established by this filing.

Regulatory filings SEC EDGAR · primary source

Form D filings — the company's own authoritative record of a Reg D private raise, filed with the SEC. Primary-source evidence: not commentary, not inference. 2 filings, latest filed 2025-01-31. A Form D is filed after the sale, so the filing date is when the notice reached the SEC — not when the round closed. Where the issuer stated a first-sale date it is shown beside it, and a D/A amends an earlier offering rather than reporting a new one.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
unknown
Money moved on or after
not established
Total reported by
2025-01-31
Basis
unknown

The most recent filing is a D/A, amending an offering already filed. An amendment may report sales made since the original and does not date them; its first-sale date is not recorded belongs to the original offering. So the latest financing date is not established.

Federal contracts USAspending · public record

Realized federal award records for this company — a verifiable, dollar-denominated government signal. Recipient name matched with high confidence; figures are per-award totals from USAspending.gov.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.03

Gray-market attention, not quality. 12+ HN mentions (peak 101 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: some SEC filings on record. ▲ 101 AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission 2025-01-29 ↗

Raw observations 19 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Astroforge observed intelligence.claims 2026-10-01 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 443 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 101 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 12 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472149", "title": "I was an astrologer", "points": 443, "created_at": "2019-11-07"} observed artifact ↗ 2019-11-07 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869730", "title": "AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission", "points": 101, "created_at": "2025-01-29"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-29 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869730", "title": "AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission", "points": 101, "created_at": "2025-01-29"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-29 normalized 0.20
description Matt Galich is the CEO and co-founder of Astroforge, a mining startup developing spacecraft to extract platinum group metals from near-Earth asteroids. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 normalized 0.60
sec.cik 0002033635 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.count 2 observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.filings [{"cik": "0002033635", "form": "D/A", "filed": "2025-01-31", "accession": "0002033635-25-000001", "index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2033635/000203363525000001/0002033635-25-000001- observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 superseded 0.99
sec.form_d.filings [{"cik": "0002033635", "form": "D/A", "filed": "2025-01-31", "accession": "0002033635-25-000001", "index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2033635/000203363525000001/0002033635-25-000001- observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.latest_filed 2025-01-31 observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.related_persons {"filed": "2025-01-31", "persons": [{"last_name": "Gialich", "first_name": "Matthew", "clarification": null, "relationships": ["Executive Officer", "Director"]}, {"last_name": "Acain", "first_name": " observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 superseded 0.99
sec.form_d.related_persons {"filed": "2025-01-31", "persons": [{"last_name": "Gialich", "first_name": "Matthew", "clarification": null, "relationships": ["Executive Officer", "Director"]}, {"last_name": "Acain", "first_name": " observed artifact ↗ 2025-01-31 normalized 0.99
sector emerging derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.50
signal.attributed_claims 1 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90