Candidature YC de Starcloud

Summer 2024Active

Starcloud a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2024 en tant qu'entreprise Industrials. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2024
Secteur d'activité: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Taille de l'équipe: 12
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2024

Fondateurs

Philip JohnstonFounder/CEO
Ezra FeildenFounder
Adi OlteanFounder

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de Starcloud, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Starcloud, promotion Summer 2024. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Starcloud ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Starcloud (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Starcloud se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Starcloud appartenait-il ?

Starcloud faisait partie du batch Summer 2024 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Starcloud ?

Starcloud a été fondé par Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean.

Que fait Starcloud ?

Data centers in space

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Starcloud en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.