Aetherflux Is Now Cowboy Space: Funding and Leadership

Introduction

Cowboy Space Corporation is the company formerly known as Aetherflux. Its May 11, 2026 announcement introduced the new name alongside a $275 million Series B led by Index Ventures at a stated $2 billion valuation. An earlier investor announcement documented a $50 million Series A in April 2025.

Verified October 7, 2026. Cowboy Space Corporation, formerly Aetherflux; selected official funding rounds, leaders and company milestones.

Detail

Aetherflux and Cowboy Space are the same company history

The company’s May 2026 announcement says it was founded as Aetherflux in 2024 and introduces Cowboy Space Corporation. The name change should connect the historical records, rather than create a second unrelated company in a funding database.

The announcement describes planned space-based compute work, including a NVIDIA technology collaboration. A technical collaboration does not automatically make NVIDIA a financing participant or establish that orbital data centers are already commercially operational.

Two verified financing rounds

The Index Ventures Series A article supplies the April 2, 2025 round. The company supplies the later Series B announcement. Their combined $325 million is a subtotal of these two selected rounds, not an independently verified lifetime funding total.

Announcement	Company name then	Round	Amount	Lead
April 2, 2025	Aetherflux	Series A	$50 million	Index Ventures
May 11, 2026	Cowboy Space	Series B	$275 million	Index Ventures

Original chart comparing the selected $50 million Series A and $275 million Series B funding announcements. — Chart by BrowserAct using the selected financing amounts in the April 2025 Index Ventures announcement and May 2026 Cowboy Space announcement. These two rounds are not a verified lifetime total.

The $2 billion valuation and named Series B investors

The Series B announcement states a $2 billion valuation without identifying it as pre-money or post-money. The workbook preserves that missing basis instead of calculating a ownership percentage from the round size.

It records ten named Series B participants with lead, new, existing or founder-investor context. Individual investment amounts are not disclosed, and the list should not be converted into an ownership table.

Selected leadership and location facts

Company appointment releases identify Baiju Bhatt as Founder and CEO, Chithra Perumal as Chief Financial Officer and John Sarkis as Global Head of Sales. These are three selected verified roles, not a full executive roster.

The releases identify headquarters at the city level in San Carlos, California. Perumal’s Seattle location describes the executive; it does not establish a complete Seattle office address. Exact publication dates absent from the captured release text are not invented from the digits in their URLs.

Name	Published role	Official source
Baiju Bhatt	Founder and CEO	Company release
Chithra Perumal	Chief Financial Officer	Company release
John Sarkis	Global Head of Sales	Company release

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Cowboy Space Corporation, formerly Aetherflux; selected official funding rounds, leaders and company milestones. The worksheets retain source URLs, source dates, verification dates and specific evidence gaps. Blank amounts, dates or addresses mean the reviewed source did not establish them.

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Open these official sources:
https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/delivering-energy-to-planet-earth-our-investment-in-aetherflux/
https://www.cowboyspace.com/news/introducing-cowboy-space-series-b
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260817538827/en/Cowboy-Space-Appoints-Chithra-Perumal-as-Chief-Financial-Officer
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260810451649/en/Cowboy-Space-Appoints-John-Sarkis-as-Global-Head-of-Sales-to-Scale-Data-Center-Business
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