--- title: How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build... description: Orbital, a startup founded by Euwyn Poon (previously of e-scooter company Spin), has raised a $5 million seed round from a16z's Speedrun accelerator to build... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-an-e-scooter-founder-raised-5-million-to-build-space-data-centers-g7htpcsyb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers | daily.dev og:description: Orbital, a startup founded by Euwyn Poon (previously of e-scooter company Spin), has raised a $5 million seed round from a16z's Speedrun accelerator to build... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-an-e-scooter-founder-raised-5-million-to-build-space-data-centers-g7htpcsyb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/g7hTPcsYB.png og:image:alt: How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Orbital, a startup founded by Euwyn Poon (previously of e-scooter company Spin), has raised a $5 million seed round from a16z's Speedrun accelerator to build space-based data centers for AI inference. The company plans to deploy 10,000 satellites providing a distributed gigawatt of computing power, betting on SpaceX's Starship rocket to make the economics viable. Near-term plans include a demo flight testing radiation shielding with an Nvidia Blackwell chip, followed by a 2028 launch of a data-processing spacecraft using Nvidia's Space-1 GPUs. The company joins a growing field of space data center startups including Starcloud and Cowboy Space Company, all racing to capitalize on surging AI compute demand. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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