Starcloud, Inc.
Starcloud is building data centers in space to address the AI energy challenge. Starcloud recently launched the first Nvidia H100 chip to space. Falling launch costs enable Starcloud to capitalize on the abundant energy and ability to rapidly scale in space. Starcloud was founded in January 2024 and raised a $170M Series A in early 2026, becoming the fastest unicorn in YC history. In August 2026, they announced a $250M raise at a $2.3bn valuation with investment from Benchmark, NVIDIA, and Cisco. Their backers include Y Combinator (S24), Benchmark, EQT, NFX, In-Q-Tel, NVIDIA, and the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers. Starcloud White Paper: Starcloud.com/wp Starcloud Concept Video: Starcloud.comwww.starcloud.com
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Sep 14, 2026
Harrison LambertHOST
Like, there's just a number of companies I see that would be a better, better deal for them for what they're trying to build that makes me think that they're just getting a good deal on this from Reflex and expecting a lot of help from them.
Harrison LambertHOST
It is pretty similar to Starcloud's appra- approach.
Harrison LambertHOST
Starcloud's leaning heavily on Astro Digital to build their buses, but, you know, long-term, y- you know, it seems like their plan is to build their own buses when they get to the large high-power platforms for their, for their orbital data centers.
Harrison LambertHOST
But for like Starcloud 1 and 2, it's an Astro Digital bus that they bought and outfitted with their payloads.
Harrison LambertHOST
So it's sort of in that vein, but again, Astro Digital has a huge, like, heritage back- uh, backing behind it.
Harrison LambertHOST
So it's much more of a they bought the bus and put their payloads on.
John CooganHOST
Oh, yeah.
Garry TanGUEST
Like StarCloud is a great buyer-
John CooganHOST
Oh, yeah
Garry TanGUEST
... of lots of other space tech.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
And not only did they ask, these companies quickly agreed.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
Both SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stokes Space and StarCloud quickly agreed and pulled out of the conference.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
So a lot of the press is saying, oh, there was Trump department threatening these companies with some kind of bad consequence if they didn't pull out.
Bob ZimmermanGUEST
But that's not the story.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
All these, combined with recent technological developments in AI and quantum computing, are making the idea more feasible than ever.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
So, are we getting any extraterrestrial data centers for Christmas? Companies such as Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are already working on orbital data center initiatives, as well as startups StarCloud and Etherflux.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
But making the vision of building a new digital cloud above the physical atmosphere presents unbelievable challenges as well.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Here, the most evident ones.
James LinekerHOST
But there have been proposals for future development of data centres in outer space and orbital AI infrastructure, with SpaceX filing plans with the US FCC at the start of this year for satellites to extend cloud and AI computing into orbit.
James LinekerHOST
Meanwhile, StarCloud, a firm that aims to design, build and deploy data centres in space, achieved a valuation of $1.1 billion in March.
James LinekerHOST
So, have we set our sights too low in this series? Should we have been looking to the stars? Well, we'll certainly keep our eyes and ears open, and our necks craned upwards, for developments on that front.
James LinekerHOST
Who knows, it could be the basis of a future series.
Charles LurioPANELIST
Yeah, I think I know there's one with the cloud in its name.
Joe PistretoPANELIST
Yeah, and then there's StarCloud.
Charles LurioPANELIST
StarCloud, okay, that may be the one I was.
Joe PistretoPANELIST
StarCloud is a startup company.
Joe PistretoPANELIST
that has raised like a scandalously large amount of money.
Joe PistretoPANELIST
They're based in Seattle and they're trying to do what Musk is trying to do.
Charles LurioPANELIST
I'll worry about that when I have enough money to invest in something before it hits the stock market.
Joe PistretoPANELIST
Yeah.
Chris StottGUEST
So for me, I look at a whole bunch of Lego bricks, all connected with RF radios and lasers all talking to each other, like brilliant pebbles, like the original Cold War strategic defense initiative.
Chris StottGUEST
So I think even the guys at StarCloud, who I think may reference the four-kilometer stuff and the big ones, I think even they've moved to 88,000 satellites.
Chris StottGUEST
And Musk wants a million satellites up to do this.
Chris StottGUEST
So it's like daisy chains, wagon chains of interconnected nodes in the sky, which are, in essence, satellites.
Lowell NelsonGUEST
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is involved.
Lowell NelsonGUEST
There's a company called StarCloud.
Lowell NelsonGUEST
They want to put hundreds of thousands of satellites into orbit to accomplish this goal, this idea.
Lowell NelsonGUEST
But the author of this column, Veronica Kirilenko, writing for the New American, leaves us with an ominous warning about this.
TerryNARRATOR
In 2026 alone, the Chinese government has filed for 200,000 new satellites.
TerryNARRATOR
In the U.S., StarCloud of Washington State has applied through the Federal Communications Commission for 88,000 satellites and Blue Origin, also in Washington, for 51,000.
TerryNARRATOR
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a breathtaking plan for one million orbital data center satellites this past January.
TerryNARRATOR
It's not clear whether these plans are genuine or merely an effort to gain first-mover advantage in orbit, basically an attempt to reserve space for hypothetical satellites.
Paul GrahamGUEST
As long as you can get to some kind of milestone, then you can convince investors to give you more.
Vivian ShenHOST
Yeah, I think Philip from StarCloud was saying that they basically just wrote a white paper and booked a launch, and they raised the money for StarCloud.
Vivian ShenHOST
Yeah,
Paul GrahamGUEST
nothing as convincing as booking a launch, right? It's got to happen if you booked a launch.
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