Star Cloud
YC S24 ↗Seattle, US · Founded 2024 · 12 employees · 22 known investors
Starcloud designs and deploys data centers in space to support hyperscale computing workloads, leveraging continuous solar energy and radiative cooling for gigawatt-scale AI training clusters. The company targets operators of large-scale compute infrastructure seeking alternatives to terrestrial data centers.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningClimate TechCloud ComputingDeep TechSpace TechHard TechSatellitesClimateAIin /starcloudinc@Starcloud_ycombinator.com ↗
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S24)
Investors · 22
FUSEBellevue · $1M – $10M
Ground Up VenturesNew York · $500K – $1.5M
Harpoon VenturesSan Diego · $100K – $5M
Imagination CapitalNew York · $100K – $150K
Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K
Link VenturesCambridge · $1M – $8M
Monte Carlo Capital$350K – $1.5Mvia Ian Sosso · inferred
Orange CollectiveDanville
Starbridge Venture Capital LlcWashington
Sterling RoadSan Francisco · $50K – $150K
Taurus VenturesBangkokvia Hemant Bhardwaj · inferred
The MBA Fund
TRACSonoma · $250K – $2M
TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)San Franciscovia Fred Campbell · inferred
Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
468 CapitalreportedBerlin
Andreessen HorowitzreportedMenlo Park · $500K – $50M
BenchmarkreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $30M
EQT VenturesreportedLuxembourg · $2.2M – $55M
In-Q-Telreported · 2 sourcesTysons · $100K – $2.5M
Propeller Inc.reportedAmman · $50K – $3.5M
Sequoia CapitalreportedMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M
In the news
- Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · 2026
- Starcloud Stock: A Space Unicorn Worth Watchingaccessipos.com · 2026
- Starcloud seeks more orbital data center funding shortly after unicorn status - SpaceNewsspacenews.com · 2026
- Starcloud reaches $1.1 billion valuation as AI space race heats up | Reutersreuters.com · 2026
- Starcloud achieves unicorn status with $170 million raise for orbital data centers - SpaceNewsspacenews.com · 2026
- Starcloud raises $170 million Series A to build data centers in space | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · 2026
- Starcloud raises $170M for space-based data centers, hits $1.1B valuationgeekwire.com · 2026
- Could data centres ever be built in orbit? Starcloud thinks soeconomist.com · 2025
