EverGreen, the NVIDIA Alumni Investment Network, has announced a strategic investment in Sophia Space, the Mandala-incubated orbital computing company building modular, AI-optimized compute infrastructure for Low Earth Orbit.
“There’s a moment in every technology cycle when the infrastructure layer becomes undeniable — when the physics of the problem demands a fundamentally new approach, and the window to back the right team is open. We believe we’re in that moment for orbital computing. And we believe Sophia Space is the company built to define it,” said EverGreen.
EverGreen is comprised of founding partners and hundreds of investors and advisors who spent years inside NVIDIA building the GPU stack, the AI platform, and the ecosystem around it. A proud member of the NVIDIA VC Alliances program, the fund backs companies at the frontier of AI infrastructure — and sees Sophia Space as a direct expression of that mission.
The investment centers on a hard infrastructure problem: data centers are hitting physical limits on power, land, and cooling, while satellites generate petabytes of sensor data that terrestrial bandwidth will never keep up with. The answer is to process data where it’s generated — in orbit. At NVIDIA’s 2026 GTC Conference, Jensen Huang formally announced NVIDIA’s push into space computing and named Sophia Space as one of a small handful of companies leading the charge.
Sophia’s modular Tile architecture — passively cooled, solid-state compute units built on an exclusive Caltech/JPL-licensed thermal stack — delivers 2.2–2.7 TOPS/W system efficiency, meaningfully better than a terrestrial GPU data center. Rather than launching a proprietary constellation, Sophia sells Tile modules and its SOOS operating system as payloads on existing satellites, generating real revenue ahead of its full Orbital Data Center transition post-2030. In April 2026, Sophia and Kepler Communications announced a formal agreement to deploy SOOS on Kepler’s in-orbit compute network — the first live validation of Sophia’s software in space.
Leading the company is Rob DeMillo (CEO), a 9x founder with 7 exits and earlier experience at JPL, alongside Dr. Leon Alkalai (CTO), a former NASA/JPL Fellow and Caltech patent co-inventor. Their advisory bench includes former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and former SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann.
“I am delighted to recognize Evergreen investment in our Mandala Space Ventures portfolio company, Sophia Space, which is developing scalable, orbiting data centers in space”, said Dr. Leon Alkalai, Founder and CTO of Sophia Space
“We are proud to back Sophia Space, and we’re excited to be part of the next chapter of what computing infrastructure becomes” – EverGreen.
To learn more about Sophia Space, visit sophia.space.
To learn more about EverGreen, visit evergreenfund.net.
Media Contact:
Brian Monnin, bmonnin@sophia.space
Emma Way, emma@mandalaspaceventures.com
