Verda

Verda is a Helsinki-based European AI cloud and infrastructure company, formerly known as DataCrunch, founded in 2020. The company provides a full-stack cloud platform designed specifically for artificial intelligence workloads, offering on-demand access to high-performance NVIDIA GPU compute, GPU clusters, serverless containers, high-speed storage, and networking infrastructure. Its platform supports the complete AI lifecycle, from rapid prototyping and model development to large-scale foundation-model training and production inference.
Verda operates as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, managing infrastructure from data centers and physical hardware through its cloud platform and managed services. Its offerings include GPU instances, instant multi-GPU clusters with high-speed interconnects, serverless GPU containers, block storage, shared filesystems, and container registries. The company also operates an in-house AI Lab focused on large-scale machine-learning systems, inference optimization, AI compilers, reinforcement learning, and other areas of AI infrastructure research.
The company emphasizes sovereign, secure, sustainable, and high-performance AI infrastructure, with European data centers, GDPR compliance, renewable-energy-powered infrastructure, and certifications including SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 27701. Verda is also an NVIDIA Preferred Partner, giving it access to advanced NVIDIA hardware for AI workloads.