Fluidstack

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Fluidstack is an Oxford-founded AI cloud and infrastructure company that builds, owns, and operates large-scale GPU infrastructure and custom data centers for frontier AI labs and enterprises. It says it can deliver gigawatt-scale compute substantially faster than conventional data-center timelines and manages more than 100,000 GPUs.

Primary product

Managed AI cloud / GPU supercomputing platform plus bespoke, vertically integrated AI data centers for model training and inference.

Founded

2017

Headquarters

New York City, New York, United States

Team size

Approximately 150–200; third-party estimates range from about 198 to 268 in 2026 and should be treated as directional.

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI cloud, GPU infrastructure, high-performance computing, and data centers

Offices

New York City, New York, United States (global headquarters)

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

GPU cloud rental for training and inference

Managed/private cloud deployments

Long-term dedicated compute and data-center partnerships

Data-center design, financing, construction, and operations

GPU infrastructure financing / hosting arrangements

Funding

Stage

Series A publicly announced; additional 2026 financing reports and databases are inconsistent, and a prospective $1B round at an $18B valuation was reported but not confirmed.

Latest round

Series A

Latest amount

$830M

Series A

Jan 2026 · Situational Awareness

$830M

SAFE / equity financing

Jan 2024

$24.7M

Debt / GPU financing facility

Jan 2024

$37.5M

Seed

Feb 2019 · Seedcamp

$3M

People & investors

Leadership

Gary Wu

Co-founder and CEO

César Maklary

Co-founder and President

Jamie Cox

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Rob Perdue

Chief Operating Officer

Dan Carpenter

VP of Sales

Mike McDonald

VP of Product

Katherine Ollerhead

General Counsel

Investors

Situational Awareness

Work & culture

Mission-driven, highly technical, fast-paced, and strongly execution-oriented. Public recruiting materials emphasize speed, scale, talent density, ownership, AI-native internal tooling, and a stated goal of building infrastructure that helps AI expand human freedom. Many infrastructure roles are explicitly onsite.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public US postings commonly advertise cash plus equity, with examples of $184,000–$276,000 for a Compensation Manager and $208,000–$269,000 for software/GPU infrastructure engineering roles. Levels.fyi reported a $225,000 median software-engineer total compensation figure as of July 19, 2026; third-party/self-reported data.

Benefits

Competitive salary plus equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement or pension plan according to local norms

Generous paid time off

US job postings disclose base-pay ranges

Product & market

Pricing

Public product pages emphasize zero setup fees and zero egress fees, with infrastructure generally sold through on-demand GPU usage, reserved capacity, and custom private/dedicated deployments; exact public rate card not located.

Differentiators

—Vertically integrated acquisition of power, data-center design/build, and operations
—Reported ability to deploy gigawatt-scale capacity in months rather than typical 18–24 month timelines
—Dedicated infrastructure optimized for frontier AI training and inference
—Large managed GPU fleet and rapid multi-thousand-GPU deployment
—24/7 engineering support and isolated network/storage environments
—Long-term custom facilities for major AI labs

Technology

NVIDIA GPUs, including A100/H100/H200 reported by third parties

Kubernetes

Slurm

CUDA

PyTorch

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Python

TypeScript

React / Next.js

GraphQL

Redis

MySQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Cisco Nexus

SCADA / BMS and data-center automation

Atlas OS and Lighthouse (reported platform components)

Customers

Anthropic

Mistral AI

Poolside

Character.AI

Black Forest Labs

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $50M–$100M annually; one third-party report cited $66.2M revenue in 2024. Treat as an estimate, not company-reported current revenue.

Signals & risks

Other

Dec 2025

Fluidstack relocated its global headquarters from the UK to New York City while expanding US investment.

Source

Other

Apr 2026

Bloomberg and TechCrunch reported that Fluidstack was in talks for approximately $1B at an $18B valuation, potentially involving Jane Street and Situational Awareness; the transaction was prospective and not confirmed in the sources reviewed.

Source

Other

Jan 2026

Third-party reporting said Fluidstack pulled out of or refocused away from a previously announced French infrastructure project to prioritize US opportunities; this is reported rather than confirmed in the reviewed official materials.

Source

Latest news

Fluidstack raised $830M Series A

Fluidstack · Jul 2026

Fluidstack announced an $830M Series A raised in January 2026 at a $7.5B valuation, led by Situational Awareness.

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation

TechCrunch · Apr 2026

Reported prospective financing discussions involving approximately $1B and an $18B target valuation; not confirmed as closed.

Fluidstack Expands U.S. Investment by Relocating Global Headquarters to New York City

Fluidstack · Dec 2025

The company announced New York City as its global headquarters amid US infrastructure expansion.

Fluidstack selected by Anthropic to deliver custom data centers in New York and Texas

Fluidstack · Nov 2025

Fluidstack announced a major partnership to deliver custom US data centers for Anthropic’s AI workloads.

Fluidstack Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires

Business Wire · Feb 2025

Fluidstack announced COO Rob Perdue, VP Sales Dan Carpenter, VP Product Mike McDonald, and General Counsel Katherine Ollerhead.

Jobs and careers at Fluidstack

238 jobs at Fluidstack

Civil Engineering Designer, Capacity Delivery

Remote

Delivery

Austin, TX; Austin, Texas, United States

Today

Remote

Full-time