Starcloud Secures $250 Million to Launch Massive Space-Based Data Center Network

Starcloud has secured $250 million in funding to expand its efforts to build data centers in space. The Series A extension brings Starcloud's total capital raised since its founding in 2024 to $450 million. Manhattan West led the financing, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, EQT, Soma, NFX and 776, as well as new investors NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, Cedar Capital, Goanna Capital and Standard Capital.

The company has been collaborating with NVIDIA since November 2025, when they launched Starcloud-1, which carried an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit. They are now working together on NVIDIA's Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, hardware designed to withstand the unique cooling and radiation requirements of space-based computing.

Starcloud expects its satellites to serve as platforms for testing AI hardware in space, with a long-term goal of launching a constellation of 88,000 satellites providing 20 gigawatts of orbital computing capacity. The company is developing production lines for its next-generation Starcloud-3 spacecraft at a new manufacturing facility in Woodinville, Washington.