The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Venturi Astrolab: 1 model. 2 sources back the record.
CategorySpace
Overview
Venturi Astrolab is a space technology company designing, building, and operating multi-purpose planetary rovers, led by founder and CEO Jaret Matthews. The company's flagship FLEX rover (Flexible Logistics and Exploration) is scheduled to fly to the Moon on a SpaceX Starship, with eight customers signing contracts worth over $160M for its first lunar mission.
NASA selected Astrolab in May 2026 as one of two providers to develop and deliver a crewed lunar rover for the Artemis program, with a task order valued at approximately $219M and a potential maximum contract value of $4.6B.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Robot
Technology
Stage
CEO
NASA Artemis contract
First mission contracts
Launch partner
Strategic partner
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Venturi Astrolab has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Tangram Vision1× joint4 total
Most recent
- Tangram Vision x Venturi Astrolab2026-02-06with Tangram Visionoperating
Venturi Astrolab on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Jaret Matthews Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
ArrivalsJaret Matthews from SpaceX
DeparturesJaret Matthews to SpaceX
Founders (1)
- Jaret Matthewssole
Safety record
No incidents on record for Venturi Astrolab.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Venturi Astrolab in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every Venturi Astrolab competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Boeingdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China Manned Space Agencydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China National Space Administrationdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Revenue disclosed
- $160000000 (private_reported)
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Venturi Astrolab has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Tangram Vision x Venturi Astrolab2026-02-06with Tangram Visionoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Tangram Vision1× joint4 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in Venturi Astrolab’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
ArrivalJaret Matthews joins
2026-08-23Jaret Matthews joined from SpaceX
DepartureJaret Matthews departs
2026-08-23Jaret Matthews left to join SpaceX
PartnershipTangram Vision x Venturi Astrolab
2026-02-06Astrolab deploys autonomous rovers on the Moon using MetriCal for calibration, supporting the development of the lunar economy and NASA's Artemis program.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Venturi Astrolab.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
- SpaceX3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Venturi Astrolab from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
NASA Selects Astrolab to Provide Lunar Rover for Artemis Astronauts' Return to the Moon
NASA selected Venturi Astrolab as one of two providers to develop and deliver a crewed lunar rover for the Artemis program, with a task order valued at approximately $219M and a…
Astrolab announces first customers for commercial lunar rover mission
Venturi Astrolab announced eight customers have signed contracts worth more than $160M for its first commercial lunar rover mission to the Moon in 2026, utilizing the FLEX rover.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/venturi-astrolab.md
- RSS feed: /companies/venturi-astrolab/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/fca6af1a-8fd1-4246-83b7-ffab9a114e05
- Revision history: /companies/venturi-astrolab/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
- SpaceX3 models
Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Venturi Astrolab draws attention at the 3rd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026