Starcloud Raises $250 Million for Orbital AI Network as Nvidia Backs $2.3 Billion Valuation
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Updated · Interesting Engineering · Aug 23
Starcloud Raises $250 Million for Orbital AI Network as Nvidia Backs $2.3 Billion Valuation
3 articles · Updated · Interesting Engineering · Aug 23
Summary
$250 million in new funding gives Starcloud fresh capital to build AI computing infrastructure in orbit, extending its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation and lifting total funding to $450 million.
Nvidia and Cisco Investments joined the round led by Manhattan West, with the money earmarked for spacecraft manufacturing, engineering and future launches as Starcloud pushes toward a larger satellite-based computing network.
Starcloud says its November 2025 Starcloud-1 mission proved an Nvidia H100 GPU could operate in space, and it has since trained an AI model in orbit and run a version of Google's Gemini there.
A 100,000-square-foot factory in Woodinville, Washington, is being built to produce the next-generation Starcloud-3 spacecraft, while the company works with Nvidia on the space-hardened Space-1 Vera Rubin Module.
Starcloud ultimately envisions 88,000 satellites delivering 20 gigawatts of orbital computing capacity, though the concept still faces major technical, economic and launch-supply hurdles.