{"id":1030464,"date":"2026-08-22T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030464"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:46:37","slug":"orbital-data-center-startup-starcloud-valued-at-2-3-billion-in-latest-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/orbital-data-center-startup-starcloud-valued-at-2-3-billion-in-latest-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital data center startup Starcloud valued at $2.3 billion in latest funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starcloud, a startup building data centers in space, said on Friday it had raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, as it looks to expand AI infrastructure through orbital data centers. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s blockbuster IPO \u200chas rekindled \u2060investor \u2060interest in the space industry, including in emerging \u200bareas such as orbital data centers. <\/p>\n<p>Manhattan West led the round that included new investors Nvidia and Cisco Investments, alongside existing backers Benchmark, EQT and \u2060Soma, among \u200cothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starcloud, a startup building data centers in space, said on Friday it had raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, as it looks to expand AI infrastructure through orbital data centers. SpaceX&#8217;s blockbuster IPO \u200chas rekindled \u2060investor \u2060interest in the space industry, including in emerging \u200bareas such as orbital data centers. Manhattan West led the round that included new investors Nvidia and Cisco Investments, alongside existing backers Benchmark, EQT and \u2060Soma, among \u200cothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030491,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030464\/revisions\/1030491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}