TechCrunchTim Fernholz
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024.
When I was at Google, I tried to pitch this internally. They said no,” he tells TechCrunch.So he left SpaceX and co-foundedSatlyt, a new company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and Nairobi, to build software for satellites that he hopes will let many satellites share the work of large computing jobs in space. The company has raised an $8 million seed round, Afullo exclusively told TechCrunch.The timing looks good for him.
SpaceX has since gone all-in on orbital data centers, and Satlyt’s software is set to launch Thursday on a SpaceX rocket alongside the first prototype for…
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