Chetan Puttagunta

Fireside Chat with Philip Johnston, Starcloud & Chetan Puttagunta, Benchmark | RAISE Summit 2026

Philip Johnston, Chetan Puttagunta

StarCloud is a Seattle-based company that has successfully launched StarCloud 1, proving that terrestrial-grade GPUs can perform high-power training and inference in space while overcoming thermal and radiation challenges. The firm plans to rapidly scale its operations through partnerships with SpaceX and other launch providers, targeting a gigawatt-scale constellation of 88,000 satellites by late 2028 to provide near-instant data processing for government, telecommunications, and lunar exploration clients. With a founding team split between aerospace and cloud engineering giants, StarCloud aims to bypass terrestrial energy permitting delays by establishing a fully vertical infrastructure capable of delivering up to 10 terawatts of compute capacity.