Aplicación YC de Starcloud

Summer 2024Active

Starcloud pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Summer 2024 como una empresa de Industrials. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2024
Industria: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Tamaño del equipo: 12
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2024

Fundadores

Philip JohnstonFounder/CEO
Ezra FeildenFounder
Adi OlteanFounder

Lo que hace Starcloud

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.

Aplicación YC de Starcloud, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

Starcloud, batch Summer 2024. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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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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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Starcloud?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Starcloud (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Starcloud se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Starcloud?

Starcloud formó parte del batch Summer 2024 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó Starcloud?

Starcloud fue fundado por Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean.

¿A qué se dedica Starcloud?

Data centers in space

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Starcloud, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.