Overview
- Starcloud announced a $250 million extension to its March Series A on Friday that TechCrunch and Reuters say values the company at about $2.3 billion.
- Reported new investors include Manhattan West Ventures with participation by NVIDIA and Cisco, though NVIDIA’s $25 million figure is sourced to an unnamed person and not independently confirmed.
- The company is building production lines at a 100,000 square foot Woodinville facility and plans to advance its Starcloud-3 spacecraft while targeting rideshare launches of GPU-cluster satellites in 2027.
- Starcloud has an FCC filing seeking permission for up to 88,000 satellites and says orbital solar power plus radiative cooling could sharply lower AI power costs, but latency, radiation hardening, thermal design, debris risk, and regulatory review remain major obstacles.
- Coverage differs on whether Starcloud already operates a data-center class NVIDIA H100 in orbit: TechCrunch reports it does and trained a model there, while Crypto Briefing and other reporting say no GPU has yet flown and the claim is unverified.