The Redmond, Washington-based startup is pursuing a moonshot idea to build a network of data centers in space that can scale to a gigawatt capacity and be used to train large AI models. Lumen Orbit declined to comment.
The company went through YC’s 2024 summer batch and garnered a significant amount of attention from VCs, multiple VCs told TechCrunch. This interest led to an extremely competitive deal process for the startup’s seed round.