Starcloud adds $250 million to its fundraising and values its orbital data centers at $2.3 billion

The company, which wants to install AI data centers in orbit, is completing its Series A. Nvidia and Cisco Investments are taking a stake in the company, bringing the total raised to $450 million.

Starcloud announced on August 21, 2026 a $250 million extension of its Series A, led by Manhattan West and which values the company at $2.3 billion after investment. Nvidia, Cisco Investments, Cedar Capital, Goanna Capital and Standard Capital join existing supporters such as Benchmark, EQT, Soma, NFX and 776. The total raised since the company's creation in 2024 now stands at $450 million.

The funds are to finance the opening of a larger factory and the construction of Starcloud-3, the largest computational spacecraft in the program, which is scheduled to launch on SpaceX's Starship rocket. A first demonstrator, Starcloud-1, was put into orbit in November 2025 with a data center-class GPU on board — about a hundred times more computing power than what had flown until then — and was used to train an AI model in space.

Eventually, the company describes a constellation of 88,000 satellites representing 20 gigawatts of orbital computing capacity. However, the timetable remains suspended on the availability of heavy launchers, a bottleneck that many industry observers now consider more restrictive than the technology itself.