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Aethir rented the GPUs. Now it wants to build the capacity.
The Singapore company turned distributed computing into a business serving AI and gaming. Its next bet is more physical: bringing new GPU capacity online where customers are already asking for it.
FNTS keeps the mainframe in the picture
The Omaha IT provider has built a business around systems that enterprises cannot casually replace. Its pitch: change the way they run before deciding what to throw away.
Solutions II Learned the Expensive Value of Saying No - Then Built a Security Business Around It
The Colorado IT provider survived a culture-clash acquisition, turned security into a major line of business, and now sells a practical idea: the data center is no longer a place. It is a promise that critical systems keep working.
The Khan Brothers Sold the Network Once. Then They Rebuilt It for the Cloud.
Alkira turned the least cloud-like part of cloud computing - the network - into an on-demand service. Eight years, $176 million in funding and one $475 million acquisition later, its biggest test is whether software and fiber can finally behave like one product.
MaiaEdge Wants to Turn the Internet’s ‘Big Middle’ Into a Push-Button Business
Private connectivity still gets negotiated by spreadsheet and activated on telecom time. MaiaEdge’s hardware-and-software bet is that operators can turn months of coordination into minutes - without handing the customer to somebody else.
The Check That Comes Before You Have a Company Bank Account
Farooq Abbasi built Preface Ventures to fund the engineers behind enterprise infrastructure - and got in so early on DX that a $2.8M-funded company became a $1B Atlassian deal.
The VC Firm That Turns Great Code Into a Company
Heavybit backs the software beneath the software - then helps technical founders do the part code cannot: find a market, price the product and build a durable company.
Arrcus, Inc.
Arrcus wants the network to stop arriving as a sealed appliance. Its software runs across white-box switches, clouds and edge sites - and now the company is betting that AI will make that freedom more valuable.
Oxide Computer Company
Oxide Computer Company builds the Oxide Cloud Computer, a rack-scale system that fuses purpose-built hardware with open-source software to give enterprises the elastic, API-driven experience of a public cloud inside their own data centers. Founded in 2019 by Joyent and Docker veterans, Oxide designs everything from the sheet metal, power distribution, and boot firmware up to the hypervisor and control plane, selling a single integrated rack rather than a pile of parts. It has raised over $577M, counts national labs and Fortune 1000 enterprises among customers, and is known for radical engineering transparency including a uniform company-wide salary.