Starcloud

Starcloud is building the world's first orbital data center network, placing GPU compute into low Earth orbit to meet the surging infrastructure demands of the AI era. The core proposition is straightforward: in space, solar energy is abundant, continuous, and effectively unlimited, dramatically reducing the energy cost profile that constrains terrestrial data centers.

Founded in early 2024, the Redmond, Washington-based company has already achieved a series of historic firsts. It launched an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit aboard the 60kg Starcloud-1 satellite, roughly 100x more powerful than any prior space-based GPU compute, and became the first company to train an AI model and run a large language model in space. The company is now processing real commercial workloads, including data from Capella Space's radar satellites.

Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, reaching unicorn status just 17 months after its Y Combinator demo day, one of the fastest in YC history. Its next satellite, Starcloud-2, launching in October 2026, will carry NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs alongside partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA, marking the company's transition from technical demonstration to commercial-scale orbital infrastructure.