Verda

Verda, formerly DataCrunch, is a European provider of cloud computing for artificial intelligence. Our reporting places it in Helsinki, Finland, and records a 189 million dollar Series B in October 2026. Its website describes the company as built in Europe and offering a full stack from hardware to serverless tools.

What it does

Verda rents graphics processing unit capacity to teams that train and run AI models. The site lists GPU and CPU instances, self-service clusters with InfiniBand networking, and serverless containers that scale for inference and batch jobs. Storage covers block volumes, a shared file system and a container registry. Hardware shown is from NVIDIA, including GB300 NVL72, B300, B200, RTX PRO 6000, H200, H100 and A100 systems. It also offers confidential computing for attested inference and fine tuning, and runs an in-house AI lab that works on research and open source projects.

Who it serves

Customers named on the site include Magnific, ExpressVPN, 1X and Aleph Alpha. The company stresses access without contracts or negotiation, and EU data centres, EU ownership and renewable energy, which matter to organisations with data location requirements.

Key facts

• Category: AI and GPU cloud
• Base: Helsinki, Finland (per our reporting); built in Europe
• Certifications listed: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 (with 27017, 27018 and 27701), C5, and GDPR compliance
• Partnerships: NVIDIA Preferred Partner; supports the SGLang and vLLM projects
• Rating cited: Bronze in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0
• Funding: 189 million dollar Series B, October 2026

The site cites historical uptime above 99.9 percent, which is the company's own figure.