Cowboy Space raises $275M as it seeks 40-60 employees for new satellite and rocket hub in Seattle

Photo) Cowboy Space Corp., a space startup growing out a new satellite and rocket engineering center in Seattle, raised $275 million in a Series B funding round this week that valued the company at $2 billion. The Bay Area-based company — formerly known as Aetherflux — was founded in 2024 by CEO Baiju Bhatt , the billionaire co-founder of the trading platform Robinhood. Cowboy Space is building satellites that double as data centers, powered by solar energy harvested in orbit