# Philip Johnston, Founder at Opontia > Philip Johnston, Founder at Opontia. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) SA · SME # Philip Johnston Founder at [Opontia](https://millionrounds.com/fund/next-commerce) Email Stages *Seed* Backs *Energy* *Cleantech* Latest rounds - **Apollo Atomics** Seed · $31M Aug 2026 Follow Philip Johnston and see their new rounds in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Fperson%2Fphilip-johnston) Profile summary - **Rounds named:** 1 last Aug 2026 - **Filings:** - with regulators - **Podcasts:** 4 +4 mentions What this record rests on - ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them - **On filings** No filing names them - ✓ **Linked to a firm** At Opontia - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from the investor lists this database was built from, so read them as of their date. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=philip-johnston)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=philip-johnston) ## The firm [**Opontia** SME · AE **0** cheques in 12 months **0** all time **0** led unknown](https://millionrounds.com/fund/next-commerce) ## Rounds they were named in - **Rounds:** 1 - **Led:** 0 - **Disclosed:** $31M - **Active:** 2026 2026 - [Apollo Atomics](https://millionrounds.com/company/apollo-atomics) *Seed* **$31M** *US* Aug 2026 Joined · +12 investors By stage - Seed **1** What they backed Energy **1** Cleantech **1** Alongside - [Alumni Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/us-strategic-tech-fund-an-alumni-ventures-fund) - [Duke Capital Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/duke-capital-partners) - [Evan Meagher *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/evan-meagher) - [FCVC *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/fcvc) - [Matteo Franceschetti *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/matteo-franceschetti) - [Nucleation Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nucleation-capital) - [Paul Graham *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/paul-graham) - [Pelion Venture Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/pelion-venture-partners) Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names. ## Also at Opontia - [**Manfred Meyer** CEO & Founder *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/manfred-meyer) ## Hear them before you pitch them - [TBPN](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/tbpn) · 2 Sept 2026 · 2h 17m Yapping in Neuralese, GoPro v2, Jimmy Iovine in the Ultradome | Nikesh Arora & Andrei Serban, Kurt Tenenbaum, Philip Johnston With [Andrei Serban](https://millionrounds.com/person/andrei-serban)[Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) Mentions [Jimmy Iovine](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jimmy-iovine)[Nikesh Arora](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nikesh-arora)[Blue Owl](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blue-owl)[Blue Owl Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blue-owl-capital) About this episode (00:58) - Yapping in Neuralese (08:50) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (11:47) - Markiplier Sends GoPro Stock Flying (19:42) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (36:13) - Elon Wants to Make Power Turbine Components (41:29) - Maersk Brings Sails Back (44:04) - Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [Training Data](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/training-data) · 17 Mar 2026 · 44 min Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space With [Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of Starcloud, explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade. After witnessing SpaceX's massive manufacturing scale at Starbase, Philip realized that declining launch costs would make space-based data centers… Listen on Apple Podcasts - [TBPN](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/tbpn) · 27 Oct 2025 · 3h 6m Suno Sparks Music Rights Firestorm, Travis Kelce’s Six Flags Play | Philip Johnston, Justin Murphy, Darren Rovell, Guillermo Rauch, Brendan Foody With [Darren Rovell](https://millionrounds.com/person/darren-rovell)[Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston)[Travis Kelce](https://millionrounds.com/person/travis-kelce) Mentions [Brendan Foody](https://millionrounds.com/fund/brendan-foody)[Guillermo Rauch](https://millionrounds.com/fund/guillermo-rauch) About this episode (01:11) - Suno App Stirs Debate Over Music Rights (39:23) - Travis Kelce Joins Six Flags Stake (49:05) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:00:09) - Philip Johnston, founder of Star Cloud, discusses the company's upcoming launch of a satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 GPU, aiming to demonstrate… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [Venture Everywhere](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/venture-everywhere) · 4 Feb 2025 · 31 min Data Centers in Space: Philip Johnston with Scott Hartley With [Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode Episode 58 of Venture Everywhere is hosted by Scott Hartley, Co-founder and MP of Everywhere Ventures talks with Philip Johnston, CEO of Lumen Orbit, a company that aims to deploy hyperscale data centers in space powered by solar energy and passive cooling. Philip shares his journey from… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Philip Johnston in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [Sourcery](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sourcery) · 19 Jul 2026 · 41 min AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI Mentions [Coatue](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coatue-management)[Mark Papermaster](https://millionrounds.com/person/mark-papermaster)[Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode Day 1 of RAISE Summit in Paris, the most high-profile AI summit in Europe. We pulled 10 of the sharpest founders, operators, and investors aside for their hottest takes on the debates defining AI right now.Open source vs closed models dominated the room, alongside agents rewriting how work gets… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 13 May 2026 · 1h 8m How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You) Mentions [Nick Harris](https://millionrounds.com/person/nick-harris)[Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode The future of AI isn't a smarter chatbot. It's a model that watches your screen, listens to the room, and acts on what it sees. We dug into Thinking Machines' new interaction model, what it means for compute, and the layoff wave that's already here.This week's roundtable: Anastasios Angelopoulos… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [Inevitable](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/inevitable) · 13 Jan 2026 · 36 min AI Hits a Power Wall. Starcloud Launches Data Centers Into Orbit Mentions [Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode Philip Johnston is co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, a company building data centers in space to solve AI's power crisis. Starcloud has already launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit and is partnering with cloud providers like Crusoe to scale orbital computing infrastructure. As AI demand… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 17 Jan 2025 · 1h 3m TikTok Ban, Data Centers in Space… and What's a Vector? | E2073 Mentions [Philip Johnston](https://millionrounds.com/person/philip-johnston) About this episode Today's show: Alex sits down with two CEOs from companies freshly added to the TWIST500. We get a masterclass from Bob van Luijt of Weaviate, on vector databases helping AI and LLMs do what they do. An then Philip Johnston from Lumen Orbit explains his vision of building data centers in space! *… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=philip-johnston). ## Find people like Philip Filter every partner and angel by firm, kind, market and whether we watched them invest. 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