Morgan Beller

[Booster 10 @booster_10]

Still wild to me that Stoke's first Zenith engine was made by a team of less than 10 people in under one and a half years.

[Starfish Space @StarfishSpace]

Big news: we just closed a $100M+ Series B.

This funding will go toward building and operating our Otter missions, scaling to meet growing customer demand, and expanding our team.

We've had a lot to celebrate lately, from missions like Remora and Otter Pup 2 to new contracts with great customers like SDA and the Space Force. And we're just getting started. Our first full Otter mission is on track to fly later this year.

Read our full press release: https://t.co/QtLCHDEyVW

We’d like to thank our investors for helping us build the future of infrastructure in space.

@p72vc, @ShieldCapVC, @IndustriousVC, @nightdragon

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

I am super excited to share that @Starcloud_ has raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1bn valuation to fuel our development of data centers in space 🚀

The round comes after the successful deployment of our first satellite, Starcould-1, a few months ago, which had the first @NVIDIA H100 on board and was the first to train an LLM in space. The funds will be used to develop our third satellite, which aims to be cost-competitive with Earth-based data centers in terms of AI inference cost.

The round was led by @Benchmark and @EQT Ventures, and we are excited to welcome Benchmark GP, @Chetanp Puttagunta, to our board. We are also excited to welcome other new investors, including the world's largest infrastructure fund, @Macquarie Capital, @SevenSevenSix 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Manhattan West, Adjacent, Carya, GSBackers, and Harpoon.

We are very grateful for the continued support of existing investors, including @NFX, @NebularVC, @YCombinator, @FUSE_VC, @Soma_Capital, 3Capital Partners, Wyld VC, Tiny VC, and Taurus Ventures.

Onwards!

[Morgan Beller @beller]

We are in the “containerization” era of space. Containers reshaped the world & rapidly reusable launch will do the same.

s/o to @stoke_space @StarfishSpace & @Starcloud_ for doing the hard work (we 🫶🏻 you)

[Morgan Beller @beller]

History doesn’t fully repeat itself, but cost curves rhyme.

@_dmuus_ (brilliantly) calls out that what we’ve seen - time & time again - is that infrastructure comes first & imagination follows.

[daniel museles @_dmuus_]

https://t.co/ie0QyXKnXL

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

For the last several months, we’ve been working on the design of our @Starcloud_-3 distributed constellation of 200kW inference nodes in dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, providing many gigawatts of low-cost AI compute. It seems we’re not alone! 🙌

[Morgan Beller @beller]

“The storyteller makes no choice / soon you will not hear his voice.” ❤️

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

People die every day, but they won’t mint more Bob Weirs. He was the last of the best, the headlight on the northbound train, the rebellious teen who became the rambling man who became the keeper of the Grateful Dead flame. Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it. Six full decades ensuring that the music never stopped. He withstood time with grit, soul, and a Boddhisattva’s Zen. And now, he's gone.

Bob, eternally sacred in the no-bullshit Stetson, straight out of a black and white Western, a dead-ringer for the last honorable sheriff in a depraved and sinister county – the last rampart protecting our society from pagan free fall. A cowboy prophet descending from Mt. Tamalpais declaiming outlaw epics about bloody shootouts in El Paso corrals, estimated prophets on burning shores, and lightning trains.

Projecting the Sinai authority of the Old Testament God, he helped birth a mythic scripture replete with winners and losers, wronged heroes and sinister villains, those haunted by death, but who remain determined to cheat the grave.

Goodbye Ace, may there be infinite Saturday nights in whatever dimension you've ascended to, one more big old party where rock and roll music meets the rising planet sun.

[Morgan Beller @beller]

.@rookisaacman saying @NASA will get by with a little help from it’s friends @SpaceX, @blueorigin, & @stoke_space

https://t.co/EbM2yuGUiC

[Morgan Beller @beller]

Deja vu / can’t believe how much more the team has done since the last video… Thank you for sharing the story so beautifully @Erdayastronaut

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

NEW VIDEO and a VERY requested video! Enjoy a new tour of @stoke_space w/ CEO @AndyLapsa!!! There's so many juicy details in this video and of course, we witness another incredible Andromeda test! Enjoy! - https://t.co/WFYsWjybch

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

NEW VIDEO and a VERY requested video! Enjoy a new tour of @stoke_space w/ CEO @AndyLapsa!!! There's so many juicy details in this video and of course, we witness another incredible Andromeda test! Enjoy! - https://t.co/WFYsWjybch

[Starcloud @Starcloud_]

🚀💪🔥

[Adi Oltean @AdiOltean]

Very good analysis 👀

I'd like to add that by launching an @Nvidia H100 in space, @Starcloud_Inc1 started the new space computing industrial revolution now embraced by @SpaceX, @Google and others.

Datacenters in space are now the new frontier.

[Morgan Beller @beller]

@philipjohnston @_dmuus_

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

.@TBPN on data centers in space:
6 months ago: “There’s some @YCombinator co working on it.”
Now: “There’s $10Tr of market cap taking it seriously!”

@Starcloud_Inc1, @NVIDIA, @Google, @SpaceX

[Andy Lapsa @AndyLapsa]

🔥

[Morgan Beller @beller]

How can the second link be Al Jazeera

[Morgan Beller @beller]

Proud mom

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

I’ve never heard a more beautiful call out:
“𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝟭 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱” !!!!!!
🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
@Starcloud_Inc1, @ezrafeilden, @adioltean

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

Starcloud-1 is alive! 😃

Starcloud was founded just 21 months and and this satellite hosts the first Nvidia H100 in space, which will provide high powered inference and fine tuning capabilities for other satellites.

It’s the first in a much larger ambition to build almost all new data centers in space, taking advantage of the abundant energy and cold temperatures in space. This will also reduce the strain on energy and water from data centers on Earth 🚀
@Starcloud_Inc1, @EzraFeilden, @adioltean

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

I’ve never heard a more beautiful call out:
“𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝟭 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱” !!!!!!
🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
@Starcloud_Inc1, @ezrafeilden, @adioltean

[NVIDIA @nvidia]

Space isn’t just for stars anymore. 🌠

Starcloud’s H100-powered satellite brings sustainable, high-performance computing beyond Earth.

Learn more: https://t.co/euiyEGZaEP