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LeptonAI
L5 · Compute Marketplaces & Market Infrastructurealso L6
principal market makersstartupprivateseedacquired
Lepton AI built a Python-native cloud runtime for running AI applications on compute sourced from other providers. NVIDIA acquired the company in April 2025 and relaunched it in June 2025 as NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, a multi-cloud GPU marketplace now aggregating 25+ cloud partners.
Ecosystem functionLepton AI sat between raw GPU supply and application developers; NVIDIA used its technology as the foundation for its own compute-marketplace product.
Business modelBrokered compute plus platform (now an NVIDIA product)
Revenue—
Valuation$700Mestimated
Last round$11Mled by CRV · 2023
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