Joseph Yaffe

COO & CLO @CowboySpaceCorp. Building the future of space-based compute and energy. Formerly Palo Alto Managing Partner @SkaddenArps & Partner @Lathamwatkins

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

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.

[Joseph Yaffe @JoeYaffe]

@BaijuBhatt @someshdash @Elliot_slade Inspirational and well deserved! Great night.

[Chad Byers @chadbyers]

Excited to be backing @BaijuBhatt again. The world benefits from people that dream big.

[Space Investor @SpaceInvestor_D]

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.

[Blake Byers @byersblake]

Congrats @BaijuBhatt! I'm holding until you get us to kardashev type II.

[Pierre Lionnet @LionnetPierre]

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.

[SpaceNews @SpaceNews_Inc]

Cowboy raises $275 million to build rockets with orbital data center upper stages https://t.co/DycJ1f9mat

[Joseph Yaffe @JoeYaffe]

@SpaceNews_Inc Giddyup!!🚀

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

@KTmBoyle 🫡

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

@TechCrunch We're here now.

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

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.

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

To fuel this next chapter and the launch of our latest technology, we’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by @IndexVentures, with participation from new investors @IVP, @blossomcap and @SAICinc, alongside existing investors @Breakthrough Energy Ventures, @constructcap, @a16z , @NEA , Interlagos and @BaijuBhatt.

[Joseph Yaffe @JoeYaffe]

The frontier got a name. Cowboys build in space now. 🚀

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

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.

[Bloomberg @business]

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

[Jack Kuhr @JackKuhr]

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.

[Baiju Bhatt @BaijuBhatt]

Introducing Cowboy Space Corp.

On a mission to power humanity from the high frontier.

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

If you want to be part of this new era, join us today:
https://t.co/lkBPP32SMP

[Joseph Yaffe @JoeYaffe]

Incredibly proud of the team for getting to this milestone! Let’s get to work! 🚀

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

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.

[Baiju Bhatt @BaijuBhatt]

More to come from the high frontier...

[Cowboy Space Corp. @CowboySpaceCorp]

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.
Build the future. Apply today.