Lambda
GPU cloud that rents Nvidia systems to AI builders and to Microsoft.
- Revenue
- About $760M annualised in 2025 (Sacra estimate)
- Value
- About $5.9B after a $1.5B Series E (Nov 2025)
- Growth
- Planned IPO in the second half of 2026 (reported)
- Based in
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2012
- Listed
- Private
Microsoft has a multi-billion-dollar deal to use tens of thousands of its GB300 systems.
Revenue figures differ across sources, and its IPO timing depends on markets.
Money coming in
Who pays Lambda, and for what.
uses tens of thousands of Lambda's Nvidia GB300 systems through a leasing deal
sacra.com
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Who Lambda pays to do what it does.
No suppliers of Lambda mapped yet.
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25% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)
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20M+ users (2025)
Open profileDesigns its own Trainium AI chips and rents them out through AWS.
5% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)
Open profileGPU cloud that builds its own data centre campuses and rents capacity to Microsoft and Meta.
Up to 1.2 GW campus under way in Missouri
Open profileRuns large cloud data centres and rents AI computing, with OpenAI as its biggest customer.
Capital spending up 162% to $55.7B in fiscal 2026. Free cash flow minus $23.7B
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Quarterly revenue $2.6B, up 112%. $104B backlog. Still loss-making
Open profileBuilds AI servers from Nvidia and AMD chips for enterprises, clouds and governments.
Full-year fiscal 2027 guidance raised to $192B (Sep 2026)
Open profileHosts and fine-tunes open AI models on rented GPUs for companies.
About $1B annualised (Sacra estimate, Feb 2026)
Open profileBuilds AI data centres and rents out the computing power, partly powered by on-site gas.
Raised $3.9B at a $30.9B valuation (Sep 2026)
Open profileSources: sacra.com, aiweekly.co, sacra.com, thenextweb.com
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