Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.

“We are at the dawn of a new era where our demand for AI technology should not come at the expense of our planetary health due to energy constraints,” Leon Alkalai, company co-founder and chairman, said in a statement.

“Our modular Sophia TILEs unlock a future of scalable, energy-efficient, orbital compute infrastructure, from satellites and space stations to full-scale orbital data centers that will augment terrestrial data centers in the future. Doing so will help civil, defense, and commercial customers grow more rapidly without drawing from local energy grids or water supplies as is the case now,” Alkalai added.