$250M Injection Fuels Starcloud's Ambitious Space-Based Data Center Plans

Starcloud, a company developing space-based data centers, has secured $250 million in funding to expand its orbital computing capacity. The investment brings Starcloud's total capital raised to $450 million since its founding in 2024.

The round was led by Manhattan West, with participation from existing investors including Benchmark, EQT, Soma, NFX, and 776. New investors include NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, Cedar Capital, Goanna Capital, and Standard Capital.

Starcloud's CEO Philip Johnston stated that the company will use the funding to build the infrastructure for launching more advanced GPUs into space. This includes additional manufacturing capacity, engineering work with NVIDIA, and procurement of future launch allocation.

The company is developing a constellation of 88,000 satellites providing 20 gigawatts of orbital compute capacity. It has already demonstrated high-powered inference and fine-tuning using flight hardware in its Starcloud-1 satellite, which was launched in November 2025.