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Element Eight Put Spine-Surgery Science in a $250 Face Cream. The Hard Part Is Selling Oxygen.
Element Eight borrowed an oxygen-delivery idea from the operating room, wrapped it in heavy glass and marched it into luxury beauty. Its opportunity is a real technology story; its challenge is proving that story on a bathroom shelf.
Starpath
Starpath is a Hawthorne, California space company building robotic factories that mine water ice from the Moon and refine it into rocket propellant. Founded in 2022 by former SpaceX engineers, the company designs fleets of autonomous mining rovers, on-site refineries, and liquid oxygen (LOX) storage systems to produce fuel where rockets actually need it - off Earth. The bet is simple and audacious: if you can make oxidizer on the Moon, you can make deep space travel affordable and turn humanity into a multi-planet species. Starpath raised a $12M seed round in 2024 co-led by 8VC and Fusion Fund.