Verda closed a $189 million Series B led by Emergence Capital, bringing total equity and debt financing to over $450 million and earning unicorn status. The raise will expand its full-stack AI cloud offering - owning data centers, hardware selection and the platform layer - to meet on-demand training and low-latency inference needs. Verda reports a $165 million annualized revenue run rate as of July 2026, a team of 250+ across Helsinki, London, Taipei and San Francisco, and customers in 50+ countries, including Aleph Alpha, Magnific and Epsilon Health. Investors include MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma, Lifeline Ventures, 6 Degrees Capital, byFounders, Tesi and several angels.
Funding will accelerate data center capacity (targeting >250 MW of operations in 2027), deeper platform engineering and expansion of the in-house AI Lab that builds compilers, serving software and performance engineering to boost GPU utilization and inference efficiency. Planned product work includes faster provisioning, early deployments of NVIDIA VR200 NVL72 and broader GPU offerings, S3-compatible object storage, Container registry, Instant clusters with Kubernetes (Kueue) or Slurm via Slinky and Managed Kubernetes soon. Enterprise-readiness advances include Audit Logs, SSO, SOC Type II and C5 certifications and industry-first confidential computing support for 8× NVIDIA HGX B300/B200.
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