Starcloud, a startup based in Redmond, Washington, secured $250 million in Series A funding. This brings the company's total capital raised to $450 million since it launched in 2024. The current post-money valuation stands at $2.3 billion. Manhattan West led the investment round, which also included participation from major industry players like NVIDIA and Cisco Investments.
The capital is designated for expanding manufacturing capacity and securing launch allocations for future orbital missions. Starcloud operates with the goal of building a massive constellation of 88,000 satellites. This infrastructure is intended to provide 20 gigawatts of compute capacity in orbit, helping to manage the heavy energy demands of current AI workloads.
Technological progress is already underway. Following the successful November 2025 launch of Starcloud-1, which featured an NVIDIA H100 GPU, the company has completed several operational milestones. These include training an AI model in space and running inference tasks with flight-ready hardware. The company is now working on the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module in collaboration with NVIDIA to ensure hardware withstands radiation and thermal challenges in the vacuum of space.
To support these ambitious production targets, Starcloud is opening a 100,000-square-foot facility in Woodinville, Washington. This plant will focus on manufacturing the next-generation Starcloud-3 spacecraft. With input from new investor Cisco, the company intends to refine the networking and infrastructure components required for orbital data centers.