Vultr
| Industry | Cloud computing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder | David Aninowsky |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 32 data center regions[1] |
Key people | J.J. Kardwell (CEO) |
| Products | Cloud compute, storage, GPU resources |
| Website | www |
Vultr is an American cloud computing company that provides cloud infrastructure and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida.[2] The company provides cloud compute, cloud storage, cloud networking, GPU-as-a-service and bare metal-as-a-service. It operates data centers in over 30 regions worldwide.[3][4]
History
[edit]Vultr was founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky.[5]
In 2024, Vultr raised $333 million led by AMD and LuminArx Capital Management.[6] In a funding round[7] In 2025, Vultr secured an additional $329 million[8] in credit financing from financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, and Goldman Sachs.
Vultr is building a 50-megawatt cluster of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) artificial intelligence processors at a data center in Ohio. The company plans to spend more than $1 billion on the facility, which will come online in the first quarter of 2026.[9]
Vultr senior management include CEO J.J. Kardwell, COO David Gucker, CIO Anthony Quon, CMO Kevin Cochrane, SVP Global Finance and Accounting Matt Short, General Manager of AI and Enterprise Cloud Amit Rai, and SVP Engineering Nathan Goulding.[10]
Operations
[edit]Vultr provides access to cloud infrastructure services and virtualized GPUs.[11][12] The company operates data centers across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Australia.[13]
Controversy
[edit]Tencent, China's largest publicly traded company, operates WeChat, a chat and social media platform with 1.3 billion users. Tencent pressured Vultr, a U.S.-based cloud hosting company, to shut down FreeWeChat—a project by GreatFire that archives censored and uncensored WeChat posts. Tencent, through its intermediary Group IB, accused FreeWeChat of trademark infringement and of promoting banned content, despite the project's role in exposing censorship practices. According to GreatFire, Vultr suspended FreeWeChat’s servers without thoroughly investigating the claims, ignoring responses from GreatFire and letters of support from human rights organizations. Vultr formally terminated FreeWeChat's hosting in November 2025.[14][15][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Data center regions". vultr.com.
- ^ "AMD-backed Vultr to build $1 billion chip cluster in Ohio for AI". bloomberg.com. 2 December 2025.
- ^ "Sovereign Clouds Explained: Why It Matters Where AI Computing Happens". businessinsider.com. 7 October 2024.
- ^ "Vultr". vultr.com.
- ^ "GPU cloud startup Vultr secures AMD backing in USD 333 million investment round". ITPro. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ "Cloud AI Startup Vultr Raises $333 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation". wsj.com. 18 December 2024.
- ^ Jander, Mary (19 December 2024). "How Vultr Picked up $333 M, with AMD Participating". futuriom.com.
- ^ "Vultr Raises $300 Million in Debt from Bank of America, Citi, Goldman". cnbc.com. 23 June 2025.
- ^ "AMD-backed Vultr to build $1 billion chip cluster in Ohio for AI". bloomberg.com. 2 December 2025.
- ^ "Our Team – Vultr". vultr.com.
- ^ Njuguna, Brian (25 November 2024). "GPU-accelerated workloads: Vultr and AMD revamp AI performance". siliconangle.com.
- ^ "Vultr to invest $1 billion in Ohio AI cluster using AMD chips". reuters.com. 2 December 2025.
- ^ "Data center regions". vultr.com.
- ^ "Tencent enlisting American cloud hosting providers to enforce censorship". GreatFire. 2025-12-08. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ Stimpson, Mark (2025-12-08). "China media giant Tencent gags dissident website FreeWeChat". Index on Censorship. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ Ottenheimer, Davi (7 December 2025). "Integrity Breach Knocks Vultr Customer Offline: Cloud-Native Censorship by Authoritarians". www.flyingpenguin.com. Retrieved 2025-12-09.