Starcloud

Overview

Starcloud launched an NVIDIA H100 GPU to orbit in November 2025 and says it was first to run a large language model on a high-powered GPU in space. Co-founder Adi Oltean previously worked at SpaceX and Microsoft Azure. The company became Y Combinator's fastest unicorn.

Funding

At least: ~$34M seed, $170M Series A (Mar 2026), $250M (Aug 2026). Reported valuation: $2.3B (Aug 2026).

Disclosed funding is the sum of publicly reported rounds found in the sources below. It is a floor, not a complete total.