Saurav Shroff

Saurav Shroff is the co-founder and CEO of Starpath, a Hawthorne, California startup building industrial-scale infrastructure to mine and refine rocket propellant on the Moon and Mars. A UC Berkeley engineering grad and former SpaceX avionics engineer, he started Starpath in mid-2022 with the conviction that mining lunar water ice into liquid oxygen could cut the cost of deep-space transport by orders of magnitude. Starpath raised a $12M seed round in 2024, won NASA Break the Ice prize money, and in 2025 launched 'Starlight' space-rated solar panels priced roughly 90% below industry norms. Shroff has testified before Congress on space resource mining and frames his ambition bluntly: build the supply chain for a million-person city on Mars.