
Starcloud builds space-based data centers that supply continuous power and cooling for large-scale AI training. The company deploys satellites with megawatt-to-gigawatt compute clusters that leverage 24/7 solar energy and radiative cooling to avoid terrestrial permitting and reduce reliance on batteries. Starcloud operates as a B2B SaaS/hyperscale infrastructure provider for AI workloads, integrating GPU-based AI hardware and satellite systems designed by engineers with hyperscale data center and satellite experience. The approach targets enterprises and AI providers needing hyperscale training clusters and aims to scale to gigawatt capacity for global AI compute demand.

Starcloud builds space-based data centers that supply continuous power and cooling for large-scale AI training. The company deploys satellites with megawatt-to-gigawatt compute clusters that leverage 24/7 solar energy and radiative cooling to avoid terrestrial permitting and reduce reliance on batteries. Starcloud operates as a B2B SaaS/hyperscale infrastructure provider for AI workloads, integrating GPU-based AI hardware and satellite systems designed by engineers with hyperscale data center and satellite experience. The approach targets enterprises and AI providers needing hyperscale training clusters and aims to scale to gigawatt capacity for global AI compute demand.
What they do: Build orbital data centers / in-space GPU/AI compute satellites powered by continuous solar energy and radiative cooling
Founded: 2024
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington
Founders: Philip Johnston; Adi Oltean; Ezra Feilden
Funding to date: USD 23,900,000 (multiple early rounds through Feb 26, 2025)
Employees (reported): 21
Hyperscale AI compute infrastructure; in-space data centers for training and inference of large AI models.
2024
Defense and Space Manufacturing
One of multiple early rounds reported in 2024
One of multiple early rounds reported in 2024
Reported funding round
Most recent round listed on company profiles
“Backed by a syndicate of institutional and angel investors including participants reported as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, NFX, Nebular, Mergus Ventures and Fortified Ventures”
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