--- title: Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers description: Sophia Space has raised $10M in seed funding to develop modular, passively-cooled orbital computers called TILEs. Derived from Caltech's space solar power... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sophia-space-raises-10m-seed-to-demo-novel-space-computers-rtizubrdh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers | daily.dev og:description: Sophia Space has raised $10M in seed funding to develop modular, passively-cooled orbital computers called TILEs. Derived from Caltech's space solar power... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sophia-space-raises-10m-seed-to-demo-novel-space-computers-rtizubrdh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RTIZubRDh.png og:image:alt: Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers 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. # Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sophia Space has raised $10M in seed funding to develop modular, passively-cooled orbital computers called TILEs. Derived from Caltech's space solar power research, each TILE is a 1m×1m thin panel integrating solar cells and processors, eliminating active cooling by using a passive heat spreader. The company claims 92% of generated power goes to computation. Sophia plans to validate the design on the ground, then launch a demo satellite via Apex Space by late 2027 or early 2028. Long-term, the company envisions 50m×50m space data centers built from thousands of TILEs delivering 1 MW of compute, targeting satellite operators who currently discard most sensor data due to insufficient on-orbit processing capacity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. 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