# DigitalOcean

> DigitalOcean is a public cloud platform built around a deliberately narrower promise than the hyperscalers: give developers, startups, agencies and growing digital businesses the compute, storage, databases, networking and AI infrastructure they need without turning cloud operations into a second product. Its signature Droplets made virtual servers unusually legible; today the portfolio stretches from managed Kubernetes and App Platform to Cloudways, GPU infrastructure and a production AI inference stack. The company makes money primarily from usage-based subscriptions, with simple interfaces, predictable pricing, extensive tutorials and a large self-service funnel as its competitive wedge.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Broomfield, Colorado, United States
- **Founders:** Ben Uretsky (Co-founder and founding CEO), Moisey Uretsky (Co-founder and founding chief product officer), Mitch Wainer (Co-founder and founding marketing leader), Jeff Carr (Co-founder and founding engineer), Alec Hartman (Co-founder and founding product designer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 1,500 employees (provided company data)
- **Products:** Droplets, Spaces and Volumes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Managed Databases, App Platform
- **Notable:** Graduated from the Techstars Boulder program in 2012 with its first 400 customers., Made SSD-backed cloud virtual machines a central part of its early developer pitch., Launched Hacktoberfest in 2014; the 2025 edition registered 56,768 people from 176 countries and recorded 87,929 contributions.

## Products & services

- **Droplets** — Linux virtual machines with shared, dedicated, memory-, storage-, CPU- and GPU-oriented configurations, managed through a web UI, API, CLI or Terraform.
- **Spaces and Volumes** — S3-compatible object storage and network-attached block storage for applications, media, backups and persistent data.
- **DigitalOcean Kubernetes** — Managed Kubernetes with a free control plane and CPU or GPU worker nodes.
- **Managed Databases** — Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey, Kafka and OpenSearch services with operational work handled by DigitalOcean.
- **App Platform** — A managed platform-as-a-service that builds and deploys applications from source repositories or container images.
- **Functions** — Serverless functions that run event-driven code without customers managing servers.
- **Cloudways** — Managed cloud hosting focused on WordPress sites, agencies and ecommerce operators.
- **GPU infrastructure** — GPU Droplets, Kubernetes GPU nodes and bare-metal GPUs for training, fine-tuning, rendering and inference workloads.
- **AI-Native Cloud and Inference Engine** — A production AI stack spanning model access, serverless and dedicated inference, routing, data, evaluations and agent infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Graduated from the Techstars Boulder program in 2012 with its first 400 customers.
- Made SSD-backed cloud virtual machines a central part of its early developer pitch.
- Launched Hacktoberfest in 2014; the 2025 edition registered 56,768 people from 176 countries and recorded 87,929 contributions.
- Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under DOCN in March 2021.
- Expanded beyond infrastructure through the acquisitions of Cloudways in 2022, Paperspace in 2023 and Katanemo Labs in 2026.
- Passed $901 million in annual revenue in fiscal 2025.
- Reported more than 680,000 customers in the second quarter of 2026.
- Built a large public library of developer tutorials alongside official documentation and open-source SDKs.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — DigitalOcean reported second-quarter revenue of $281 million, up 29% year over year; AI customer ARR reached $234 million, up 212%, and remaining performance obligations reached $894 million.
- **2026-06** — DigitalOcean added three executives as it expanded leadership for AI-native growth.
- **2026-05** — Hippocratic AI said it had scaled to 10 million patient calls on DigitalOcean infrastructure powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
- **2026-05** — Cloudways launched Site Manager for managing multiple WordPress properties from one interface.
- **2026-04** — DigitalOcean unveiled an AI-Native Cloud and expanded its Inference Engine with production routing and agentic workload capabilities.
- **2026-04** — DigitalOcean acquired Katanemo Labs, adding agent orchestration, observability, safety and open-source Plano technology.
- **2026-02** — The company introduced GPU Droplets powered by AMD Instinct MI350X accelerators.
- **2026-01** — Vinay Kumar joined as chief product and technology officer.

## Links

- Website: https://www.digitalocean.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalocean/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/digitalocean
- GitHub: https://github.com/digitalocean
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DigitalOcean
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedigitalocean/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalOceanCloudHosting

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Last updated: 2026-08-10