Starcloud YC-Bewerbung

Summer 2024Active

Starcloud durchlief Y Combinator im Summer 2024-Batch als ein Industrials-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch: Summer 2024
Branche: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Teamgröße: 12
Status: Active
Gestartet: 2024

Gründer

Philip JohnstonFounder/CEO
Ezra FeildenFounder
Adi OlteanFounder

Was Starcloud tut

Starcloud is building data centers in space, initially to provide GPU compute to other satellites, and later to address the rapidly growing demand for energy caused by the deployment of AI. Falling launch costs give Starcloud access to abundant energy, radiative cooling, and the ability to rapidly scale in space. In November 2025, just 21 months after founding, Starcloud launched its first satellite, Starcloud-1 to space. This has an Nvidia H100, which is 100x more powerful GPU than has ever been operated in space before. With this, they became the first entity to train an LLM in space and the first to run a version of Gemini in space. Starcloud will soon also run high-powered inference on Capella SAR data on orbit for the first time. Starcloud is launching its second satellite in October 2026, which will have 100x the power generation of the first and generate more cash than it costs to build and launch. Starcloud expects that within 10 years, most new data centers will be being built in space for the energy. In March 2026, Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark, becoming the fastest unicorn in YC history, just 17 months after demo day.

Starclouds YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

Starcloud, Summer 2024 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Starcloud

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data centers in space

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build and operate data centers in space starting with satellites that provide GPU compute to other satellites. Our first satellite runs an Nvidia H100 GPU in orbit, powering machine learning workloads including training large language models and running inference on satellite data. As launch costs decrease, we scale these space-based data centers to meet AI's growing energy demand.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Seattle, Washington, and the company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle has the engineering talent we need and proximity to aerospace partners. The founders already live here, so it's a natural base for our hard tech work.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Starcloud?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von Starcloud (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie Starcloud bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war Starcloud?

Starcloud war Teil des Y Combinator Summer 2024-Batches.

Wer hat Starcloud gegründet?

Starcloud wurde von Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean gegründet.

Was macht Starcloud?

Data centers in space

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von Starcloud, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.