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Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (https://verda.com)

87 points by cmrdporcupine 2 days ago | 52 comments | View on ycombinator

herodoturtle 1 day ago |

Sincere congrats to the Verda team :-)

Can someone please help me understand what their competitive advantage is, versus the likes of AWS / Azure et al, who are also available in the EU.

I love a good underdog story, but I'm not understanding the economics of it.

nik736 1 day ago |

Verda is great! The only thing bad about Verda is that it's sold out fairly often :-) So the $189M will hopefully help with that.

purpleidea 1 day ago |

I'd love to give someone at Verda a demo of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ to show them how they could actually do fast provisioning and automation. Seeing Ansible+Kubernetes+K* stuff in their jobs offering does not inspire confidence that they're innovating in building their core infra. You can't out-compete AWS or even the smaller clouds there.

If you want to see a different perspective, lmk.

paperboy10000 1 day ago |

Excellent news for European tech stack - congrats!

welhoilija 1 day ago |

Gongratulations to the team! Their solutions not only allow the data to actually stay in the EU, but are otherwise competetive as well!

petcat 1 day ago |

AI cloud? I guess 189 mil will buy nvidia GPUs to host inference for Chinese models for Europeans? Is that what this is?

ksimukka 1 day ago |

If only I was in Helsinki. This would be an interesting time to work in this area.

BiraIgnacio 1 day ago |

This is wonderful, congrats to everyone at Verda!

robotswantdata 1 day ago |

Very good dev experience! Congrats

htrp 1 day ago |

yet another ai cloud

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mrits 1 day ago |

$198M for AI Cloud when US has a company that pays one of it's employees about that?

hn45e7pbij 1 day ago |

Yeah the sold out bit is telling, and it's rarely the cards, it's finding racks with enough power and cooling ready to take them.