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About:
Starcloud develops space-based data center infrastructure designed to support computing and data processing beyond Earth environments. The company builds and deploys satellites equipped with computing hardware to enable in-orbit data processing, storage, and artificial intelligence workloads. Its systems leverage continuous solar energy and passivecooling conditions in space to operate large-scale compute clusters. Starcloud also designs satellite architectures and supporting technologies for handling high-performance workloads, including machine learning training and inference. The organization conducts testing through launched satellites and collaborates with technology providers to integrate computing components into orbital platforms. Its offerings focus on enabling scalable computing capacity through distributed space-based infrastructure.
Lead investors:
Benchmark and EQT Ventures
Achievements:
Fastest company to reach a $1 billion valuation in Y Combinator history (17 months post-demo day)
Estimated valuation over time
Metrics history
| Date | Est. valuation | Headcount | Traffic /mo | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | $2.20B | 20 | — | valuation possibly inflated due to SpaceX IPO |
| 2026-03-30 | $1.10B | — | 25,711 | Raised $170M Series A |
| 2024-01-01 | $0M | 3 | — | Founding |
Activity
- 2026-06-02news
buys 50 mini laser terminal from SpaceX ↗
planning to link into SpaceX network; planning 88,000 satellites; new lasers will be installed on future satellites starting Starcloud-2 (Jan 2027); 25Gbps over 4,000 kilometers
- 2026-03-30funding
Series A
170 M
- 2025-11-01product
Demo: Nvidia H100 GPU in space
- 2024-01-01note
Founded Jan 2024