Vast.ai
Vast.ai is an AI / GPU Cloud company founded in 2018 and based in Los Angeles, United States. It has raised $4M in total funding, most recently a Seed.
Founded by Jake Cannell, Vast.ai runs a GPU compute marketplace that aggregates underutilized hardware from independent data centers and hosts running its hosting software, then matches that supply to users searching for the cheapest compute for their requirements. By tapping idle consumer and professional GPUs, its rental prices run several times below large cloud providers, serving AI/ML training, inference, and rendering workloads. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with an engineering hub in San Francisco, has raised a modest early-stage round reported at roughly $4M, and in 2024 became the first GPU rental marketplace to offer AMD support.
Its marketplace model turns fragmented, idle GPU capacity into one of the cheapest sources of cloud compute, pressuring incumbent pricing.
vast.ai ↗·AI / GPU Cloud·
United States·private 
