About Starcloud (Lumen Orbit)
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, plans data centers in orbit that run on solar power and use space for cooling and for building large installations. It renamed itself in March 2025 after a legal challenge from Lumen Technologies. Its Starcloud-1 satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November 2025 carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU, which the company used to train a small language model and run Google's open Gemma model in orbit. Starcloud was founded in 2024 by Philip Johnston, Adi Oltean and Ezra Feilden, is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and completed the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.
Starcloud (Lumen Orbit) was founded in 2024 and is based in Redmond, WA, United States. It is listed under AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $170M Series A (Mar 2026, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures; $1.1B valuation).
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What Starcloud (Lumen Orbit) works on
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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