As an honoree on the recent "Forbes 250: America's Greatest Innovators" list, our CEO, @BaijuBhatt, was invited to speak today at the @Forbes and @America250 "America Innovates" event in San Francisco.
Born from the Forbes 250 list, this event series is designed to inspire the next generation of American innovators and entrepreneurs.
During his session, Baiju discussed Cowboy Space Corporation and the future of American innovation.
Cowboy Space Corporation, the orbital infrastructure company founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, today announced $275M in Series B financing at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures.
Cowboy Space Corporation is pioneering vertically integrated infrastructure to power and run AI compute in orbit, opening a new frontier for high performance computing as terrestrial capacity strains under AI demand.
The company is developing a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that harness solar energy, a purpose-built launch vehicle to deliver them and compute payloads designed specifically for the space environment.
The rocket's upper stage and data center payload are designed as a single vehicle, not as a workhorse and its freight, eliminating redundant mass and optimizing power and compute delivered to orbit. In orbit, each upper stage becomes a 1-megawatt data center.
Cowboy is also collaborating with NVIDIA to deploy NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin Modules, bringing state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to the Low Earth Orbit environment.
Pivoting faster than a spin stabilised satellite in GEO Aetherflux becomes Cowboy Space (🤦), and raises more millions to develop orbital data centers and the related launch infrastructure.
Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity.
Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI.
We can.
Today marks the beginning of a new era.
Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation.
We are building orbital infrastructure for the AI era: a fully integrated system of rockets and satellites designed to deliver high-performance compute and optical data transmission directly from Low Earth Orbit.
A space unicorn started by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, raised $275 million, changed its name and unveiled a plan to build data centers in orbit https://t.co/wYWlGTkvuU
Aetherflux is now Cowboy and they are doing cowboy things.
Like building:
- A new launch vehicle
- An upper stage that double as megawatt data centers
- Space to Earth energy beaming
“Cowboy Space has designed the rocket’s upper stage and data center to be a single vehicle, unlike a traditional rocket that delivers a separate payload to space.”
BIG swing Baiju Bhatt (Cowboy founder + Robinhood cofounder) is taking.
Today marks the beginning of a new era.
Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation.
We are building orbital infrastructure for the AI era: a fully integrated system of rockets and satellites designed to deliver high-performance compute and optical data transmission directly from Low Earth Orbit.
Meet Michael Gray, our Technical Recruiter, who outlines exactly why Aetherflux is the place to be right now.
We are hiring engineers across all disciplines.
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