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News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$3.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$3.2M
Venture round · Dec 2020 · 5 yr ago
Team
22
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -15% in a year
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Kickstart, Left Lane Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
70 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 28, 2024 Took on debt financing $7.3M · SEC Form D May 3, 2024 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Salad, a distributed cloud for AI (like Airbnb for GPUs) Dec 8, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $3.2M 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
116 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Debt Financing Aug 2024 $7.3M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2020 $3.2M — yahoo.com
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Salad Technologies, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Robert MilesExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Salad Technologies builds a distributed cloud from consumer gaming PCs whose owners rent out spare GPU time. Founded in 2018 in Washington state, it serves artificial intelligence inference, transcription and image generation workloads at low cost. Its network spans hundreds of thousands of consumer machines worldwide.

News

News Bitcoin.com News 9 months ago
Salad.com and Golem Network Partner to Pilot Decentralized GPU Cloud Infrastructure
Salad.com partners with Golem Network to test Web3 DePIN infrastructure for enterprise GPU workloads aiming to slash overheads.
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News SaladCloud 1 year ago
Salad Transcription APIs Overview
Transform your audio, video, and text content into accurate transcripts, translations, summaries, and more with Salad Transcription APIs
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News SaladCloud Blog 1 year ago
Transcription API accuracy benchmark: 95.1% accuracy rate (No.1)
In this blog, we share results from an accuracy benchmark of Salad Transcription API, scoring 95.1% accuracy rate - No.1 in the industry.
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News salad.com 2 years ago
Salad Transcription API - The lowest priced, unified API in the market (From $0.10 per hr)
Salad Transcription API, powered by Whisper Large v3, offers unparalleled transcription accuracy, translation, summarization & analysis, all for $0.10/hour, the lowest in the market.
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News SaladCloud Blog 3 years ago
Stable Diffusion Inference Benchmark - Consumer-grade GPUs
In this Stable Diffusion GPU benchmark for inference, we generated 9.2 Million images in 24 hours on 750 consumer-grade GPUs- all for $1872.
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News SaladCloud Blog 3 years ago
Centralization Is a Systems Design Problem
In this blog, we discuss how today's centralized cloud is really a monopoly and the role of distributed infrastructure in breaking that.
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News Springfield Business Journal 4 years ago
A Conversation With ... Nathan Cole
SBJ interviews Salad Technologies
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Salad Technologies over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Rust
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry
TensorRT-LLM
CUDA
ROCm
Cloud & platforms
TGI
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Developer tools
llama.cpp
GGUF
TensorRT
AI & ML
LLM
AWQ
GPTQ
Practices & domains
Embeddings
KV Cache
Quantization
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$220k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Staff 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Staff 1 $220k $220k
Highest paying role Staff Software Engineer, AI Inference Gateway $220k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Robert Miles
Executive Officer, Director
Adrian Stalder
Director
Jeffrey Stowell
Director
Damian Fox
Director
Derek Urben
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Removed Rest API from stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Vancouver United States
HQ

Jobs

$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Rust
llama.cpp
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Embeddings
Quantization
AWQ
GGUF
GPTQ
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
TGI
LLM
CUDA
ROCm
KV Cache
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
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Financials

Total raised
$10.5M
Latest round
Debt Financing
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Debt Financing 2024 $7.3M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $3.2M Details