TechFlow reports that on March 31, Starcloud—a space-based computing company—raised $170 million in its Series A round, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. The company’s valuation now stands at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups in Y Combinator’s history to achieve unicorn status. Its total funding to date has reached $200 million.
Starcloud launched its first satellite—equipped with NVIDIA H100 GPUs—in November 2025 and successfully completed the world’s first in-orbit AI model training. This year, the company plans to launch Starcloud 2, which will feature NVIDIA Blackwell chips, AWS server blades, and Bitcoin mining computers. In the longer term, Starcloud aims to develop Starcloud 3: a 200-kilowatt orbital data center deployable via SpaceX’s Starship. The goal is to reduce power costs to approximately $0.05 per kilowatt-hour—though this plan hinges on Starship achieving commercialization between 2028 and 2029.
