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Finnish startup providing GPU cloud infrastructure powered by Nordic renewable energy. $117M in 2026 to expand green compute capacity in Europe.
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🎙️ Deep Dive
Daily News - 8 September 2025
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A European AI cloud provider, rebranded from DataCrunch to Verda. It offers on-demand GPUs (instances, instant clusters, bare-metal clusters), serverless inference, and confidential computing, powered by 100% renewable energy in Nordic data centers. An NVIDIA Preferred Partner (among the first in Europe to deploy Blackwell Ultra). Named customers/partners: Freepik, Unbabel, PremAI, Simli, ExpressVPN (case study on confidential computing with NVIDIA B200), Harvard, MIT. Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701, GDPR compliance.
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Business Model
GPU cloud as a service: pay-per-use for AI training and inference. Differentiation on carbon footprint.
Market & Clients
Geographic Presence
Funding & Investors
Funding Rounds
- 2026 - Funding: $117M
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- DataCrunch — $117M Funding 2026 — Tech.eu
- DataCrunch - sito ufficiale (verifica contenuti, ricerca D3) — https://datacrunch.io