🇫🇮 Verda raises $189 million in Series B to accelerate full-stack AI cloud

September 22, 2026

Verda became Europe’s latest unicorn today, raising $189 million in Series B funding led by Emergence Capital. The oversubscribed round included participation from MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Lifeline Ventures, ENDUR, 6 Degrees Capital, byFounders, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd), and a group of angel investors including Ola Tørudbakken and Mark Saroufim. This brings Verda’s total funding to over $450 million across equity and debt.

Verda has reached a $165 million annualized revenue run rate as of July 2026 and now powers AI workloads for organizations across 50+ countries, from early-stage startups to enterprises. The company has a team of over 250 people across Helsinki, London, Taipei, and San Francisco.

Full-stack approach

Verda is building a full stack to meet the evolving needs of AI workloads. The company designs and builds its own data centers, the infrastructure inside them, and the platform that runs on top, enabling customers to get capacity how, when, and where they need it while operating at a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.

Teams including Aleph Alpha, Magnific, and Epsilon Health already run production AI workloads on Verda’s infrastructure. The company also maintains its own AI Lab, a dedicated team that runs real research workloads on the platform, working on problems like improving GPU utilization, inference optimization, and kernel engineering.

What’s next

The funding will deepen all three parts of Verda’s stack. The company will have more than 250 MW of operations in 2027, with data centre capacity live in Finland today and more coming online in Europe, the UK, the US and Asia. Early deployments of NVIDIA VR200 NVL72 are anticipated in the coming months.

Verda is also focused on large-scale inference capabilities, faster provisioning, expanded platform features including S3-compatible object storage and Managed Kubernetes, and deeper enterprise readiness through improved access controls, audit logging, and security certifications including SOC Type II and C5.

“There’s a window right now to build one of the defining compute companies of this generation, and to do so from Europe. It won’t be open for long,” said Ruben Bryon, founder and CEO of Verda.

Contact

For more information, visit Verda.

Originally published on September 22, 2026 by Verda.