Starcloud Raises $250M at $2.3B Valuation to Scale Orbital Data Centers

Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation.

The round was led by Manhattan West, with participation from existing investors including Benchmark, EQT Group, Soma, NFX and 776 Capital, as well as new investors including NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, Cedar Capital, Goanna Capital Management and Standard Capital. The financing brings Starcloud’s total capital raised to $450 million since its founding in 2024.

The company is developing data centers in space and plans to use the new funding to expand manufacturing, engineering work with NVIDIA and procurement of future launch capacity.

Starcloud is also developing its next-generation Starcloud-3 spacecraft at a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Washington.

Starcloud’s partnership with NVIDIA began with the deployment of an NVIDIA H100 GPU aboard the Starcloud-1 satellite in November 2025. The companies are now working together on NVIDIA’s Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, designed for operation in the space environment. Starcloud says it has also demonstrated AI model training, inference and fine-tuning on orbital computing hardware.

Philip Johnston, Co-Founder and CEO of Starcloud, said the new funding will allow the company to build infrastructure capable of deploying more advanced NVIDIA GPUs in space.

Cisco Investments Vice President Aleem Rizvon said Cisco expects its expertise in networking, optical systems and AI infrastructure to contribute to the development of orbital data centers.

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