• SAN FRANCISCO - Sophia Space raised $10 million in seed funding to accelerate development of space-based edge computers and orbital data centers. • “The $10 million round is a validation that we are progressing from slideware to hardware,” Rob DeMillo, Sophia Space CEO and co-founder, toldSpaceNews.“And it’s evidence that capital is shifting towards orbital-compute infrastructure.” Alpha Funds, KDDI Green Partners Fund and Unlock Venture Partners led the $10 million investment round. • With the funds, Sophia Space will accelerate development of its orbital computing systems and proprietary thermal technology. • The startup also is expanding its staff of engineers designing Tile, the technological building block of Sophia Space orbital data centers. • Once the designs are completed, Sophia Space will produce demonstration Tiles for environmental testing, DeMillo said. • Orbiting Data Centers Sophia Space, founded in 2023 in Pasadena, California, plans to establish a constellation of orbital data centers with the first operating in the 2030s.For the next several years, Sophia Space will sell Tile directly to customers seeking space-based edge computing.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO - Sophia Space raised $10 million in seed funding to accelerate development of space-based edge computers and orbital data centers. “The $10 million round is a validation that we are progressing from slideware to hardware,” Rob DeMillo, Sophia Space CEO and co-founder, told SpaceNews. “And it’s evidence that capital is shifting towards orbital-compute infrastructure.” Alpha Funds, KDDI Green Partners Fund and Unlock Venture Partners led the $10 million investment round. With the funds, Sophia Space will accelerate development of its orbital computing systems and proprietary therm

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