Starcloud raises $250M for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

Starcloud has extended its March Series A with an additional $250 million, valuing the company at $2.3 billion, to advance orbital AI data centers. It plans to launch its first 8 kW compute satellites in 2027, but has not yet secured launch contracts for its larger Starship missions.

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Starcloud raised a $250 million extension to its March Series A, valuing the company at $2.3 billion, according to TechCrunch.
The round was led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark, EQT, and others; a source familiar with the deal said Nvidia invested $25 million, which the company did not confirm.
Starcloud plans to launch two 8 kW compute satellites (Starcloud-2) on rideshare flights in 2027 for orbital inference tasks, with customers including U.S. government agencies.
It is the only known company operating an Nvidia H100 GPU in orbit and the first to train a model using it; it is sharing data with Nvidia as it develops the Vera Rubin Space-1 chip.
The company has requested FCC permission to operate 88,000 spacecraft.

Starcloud has not yet secured specific launch contracts for its larger Starcloud-3 spacecraft planned on Starship; the timeline depends on Starship’s successful demonstration.

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