Starcloud YC 申请

Summer 2024Active

Starcloud 在 Summer 2024 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 Industrials 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Summer 2024
行业: IndustrialsAviation and Space
团队规模: 12
状态: Active
已发布: 2024

创始人

Philip JohnstonFounder/CEO
Ezra FeildenFounder
Adi OlteanFounder

Starcloud 做什么

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.

Starcloud 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Starcloud，Summer 2024 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

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.

21 更多回答在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Starcloud 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Starcloud 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Starcloud 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Starcloud 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Starcloud 是 Y Combinator Summer 2024 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Starcloud？

Starcloud 由 Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean 创立。

Starcloud 做什么？