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Energy · Redmond, WA · Founded 2024 · Raised $450M · Growth stage

Starcloud

Review noteOrbital data-centre company (ex Lumen Orbit, YC), backed by Benchmark, Nvidia and others with $450M raised at a $2.3B valuation; already very widely known (hundreds of Hacker News hits, one GPU satellite flown in Nov 2025). Source ↗

Edge

11#183 · ▼11 in 7d

1 of 8 families

Why now

  1. Applied for a new FCC experimental license for a non-geostationary satellite on 1618.725-1626.5 and 400.5 MHz

    Regulatory · Sep 29

People

Score

Momentum39

 

Regulatory

Thesis fit92

× 0.94

Matched on battery, energy, gigawatt, in-space, national security

Earliness6

× 0.43

Already visible: capital raised, funding stage

Team–

× 0.85

1 named person, none from a top lab or company

39 × 0.94 × 0.43 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 11

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Sep 29RegulatoryApplied for a new FCC experimental license for a non-geostationary satellite on 1618.725-1626.5 and 400.5 MHz↗

Undated

  1. AttentionMentioned 6 times on Hacker News to date↗
  2. TrafficDomain rank improved from 947,998 to 740,719 in 30 days, within the normal range↗