Data Alliance
Data Alliance is a Seoul-based AI infrastructure company founded in June 2016.
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Data Alliance is a Seoul-based AI infrastructure company founded in June 2016. Its flagship gcube is a sharing-economy virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle GPU capacity from cloud providers, data centers, universities and consumer PCs, offering unified API access and workload-aware orchestration to cut GPU compute costs for AI developers and enterprises. It holds usage-tracking patents in 8 countries and gcube won a CES 2026 Innovation Award in AI.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Data Alliance
Data Alliance is a Seoul-based AI infrastructure company founded in June 2016. Its flagship gcube is a sharing-economy virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle GPU capacity from cloud providers, data centers, universities and consumer PCs, offering unified API access and workload-aware orchestration to cut GPU compute costs for AI developers and enterprises. It holds usage-tracking patents in 8 countries and gcube won a CES 2026 Innovation Award in AI.
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United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- DigitalOcean
Simplified cloud infrastructure for developers, startups and digital-native SMBs (Droplets VMs, managed Kubernetes, App Platform, object storage, managed databases), plus on-demand GPU instances (NVIDIA H100/H200, AMD MI300X, etc.) and a managed model inference/agent platform via the Gradient AI product line
— - Crusoe
Vertically integrated AI data center and GPU cloud platform (Crusoe Cloud), covering the full chain from energy sourcing and AI-optimized data center design and construction to cloud services; customers include Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI
Series D+ · 2026-09 · Valuation $31B
—Valuation $31B - Fluidstack
GPU cloud and AI compute infrastructure (neocloud), also building and operating data centers
Undisclosed · $2.6B · 2026-09 · Valuation $18B
$2.6BValuation $18B
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- KONST
AI compute operations: GPU data center construction and hosting, GPU cloud and enterprise AI deployment
Series B · 2026-10
— - Kunlunxin
R&D of general-purpose cloud AI chips (GPU/XPU), providing compute for LLM training and inference.
— - 行云集成
GPGPU chips for large model inference, with in-house cores matching the CUDA programming experience, aimed at lowering inference compute costs
Undisclosed · 2026-09
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Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Nscale
Full-stack AI cloud platform: GPU cloud compute, AI training/inference infrastructure and integrated data center plus power services
Debt / Convertible · $3.7B · 2026-09 · Valuation $15B
$3.7BValuation $15B - SWI Group
Converts Bitcoin mining facilities into AI data centers; GPU compute services
$1.2B
$1.2B - Verda
Cloud infrastructure for AI workloads
Series B · $450M · 2026-09 · Valuation $1.0B
$450MValuation $1.0B
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Bitdeer Technologies Group
Two business lines: bitcoin mining (proprietary mining machines, self-operated mining sites, cloud hashrate and hosting services); AI cloud and HPC (converting mining sites into GPU data centers, renting compute as IaaS/PaaS to enterprise AI developers and model training teams and providing AI cloud services).
— - Elice
GPU cloud and modular AI data centers; enterprise AI education and AX solutions
IPO · 2026-10
— - Rebellions
Designs the AI inference chip Rebel100 along with companion servers and full racks, for telecom operators and data centers to run agent inference
Pre-IPO · $898M · 2026-03 · Valuation $2.3B
$898MValuation $2.3B
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