VC-backed
Combine filters →Venture funding buys generous free tiers, fast product development and prices that do not have to cover costs yet. All of that is real while it lasts, and it is paid for by an expectation of a return: an acquisition, a listing, or a repricing.
46 providers are vc-backed, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, platform as a service and serverless, of 9 categories in all. 40 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
A
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
B
- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
- Beam
Serverless GPU platform where Python functions and container images run as autoscaling endpoints, task queues and sandboxes, with on-demand GPU machines beside them.
- Bolt
An AI builder from StackBlitz that turns a prompt into a web app and can publish the result on its own bolt.host hosting or push the code to GitHub for deployment elsewhere.
- Bubble
Bubble is a no-code app builder that combines UI design with database and workflow tools.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
C
- Cerebrium
Serverless GPU platform for real-time AI workloads, running Python apps and custom Docker containers that scale to zero and bill per second.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
D
- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- Diploi
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.
- Duda
Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.
E
F
G
- Gcore
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
H
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
I
- IDCloudHost
IDCloudHost is an Indonesian infrastructure company selling cloud VPS, managed hosting, dedicated servers and object storage from data centres in Jakarta and Singapore.
K
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.
L
- Lambda
US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
- Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.
- Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.
- LovableOne we like
Lovable is an AI-assisted low-code no-code platform that generates web app code from natural language prompts and deploys it on its own infrastructure.
M
- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
N
- NetlifyOne we like
Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
P
- Pantheon
Managed WebOps platform for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js with workflows and governance tools.
R
- RailwayOne we like
Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
- Render
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
S
- SaladCloud
Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
T
- Thunder Compute
GPU cloud renting NVIDIA GPU instances by the minute, managed from a CLI, an editor extension or an MCP server.
- Tigris
Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
U
V
- VercelOne we like
Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
- Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.
- Vultr
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
W
Z
- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
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