Starcloud raised $170 million in a Series A funding round. The investment established a $1.1 billion valuation for the company. Benchmark and EQT Ventures led the round.
The startup is now the fastest Y Combinator company to reach unicorn status. It achieved the milestone 17 months after its demo day.
Starcloud builds AI compute infrastructure in low Earth orbit to solve terrestrial energy and land constraints. These orbital data centers leverage solar power to run high-performance hardware.
The company successfully launched its first satellite in November 2025. The craft featured an Nvidia H100 GPU. This mission performed the first-ever training of an AI model in space.