Lumen Orbit (Seed)

Funding Details
Awarder
Inbox
Date Award
December 11, 2024
Vertical
Space Technology
Funding URL
View Funding Page
Valuation
$40,000,000
Funding Amount:
$11,000,000

Company Info
Founding Year
2024
Traction
Over 200 VCs expressed interest in the funding round, leading to the opening of an additional SAFE round at a higher valuation.
Founders
Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean
Company Description
Lumen Orbit is a startup looking to build data centers in space, utilizing orbital pods that can hold compute and attach to large solar panels in clusters. The company aims to create multi-gigawatt compute clusters by the end of the decade, leveraging high-bandwidth optical lasers to transmit data back to Earth.
Market
Data Centers
Location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Coinvestors
NFX, Fuse.VC, Soma Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia

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