Starcloud

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Starcloud is a US orbital-compute company (ex-Lumen Orbit, 15 staff) that became the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history (a $1.1B valuation in March 2026), whose Starcloud-1 (launched November 2025) carried the first NVIDIA H100 GPU in space and trained the first LLM in space (December 2025). Starcloud-2 (October 2026) carries multiple H100s, and it filed with the FCC in February 2026 for an 88,000-satellite compute constellation, making it the flag-carrier of the orbital-compute theme. It is pre-revenue, and a recorded skeptic point is Varda's estimate that orbital compute costs ~3x per watt versus terrestrial.

Latest signals

• 26 Oct 2026Dunamu & Partners made a strategic investment in Starcloud’s $250 million funding round.ZDNet Korea
• 1 Oct 2026Starcloud signed a commercial payload agreement to demonstrate AI computing in lunar orbit.Interesting Engineering
• 6 Sept 2026SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud withdrew from the upcoming European Space Summit.The AI Insider
• 2 Sept 2026PSI developed a perihelion-pump trajectory for StarCloud’s interstellar mission.Peter H. Diamandis
• 2 Sept 2026PSI used tens of billions of tokens to search for StarCloud’s interstellar trajectory.Peter H. Diamandis

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Facts, with sources

• 1 Jan 2028Three-ton, 200 kW-class spacecraft; Falcon 9 for smaller payloads pending Starship readinessDeployment · SpaceNews
• 1 Nov 2026Starcloud-1 launched in NovemberProduct launch · SpaceNews
• 1 Nov 2026Starcloud-1 flew to orbit aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Bandwagon-4Deployment · Payload
• 6 Sept 2026Withdrew from the upcoming European Space SummitSetback · theaiinsider.tech — 2026-09-06

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Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

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