Vultr
Vultr is an American cloud computing company that provides cloud infrastructure and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company provides cloud compute, cloud storage, cloud networking, GPU-as-a-service and bare metal-as-a-service. It operates data centers in over 30 regions worldwide.
History
Vultr was founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky.In 2024, Vultr raised $333 million led by AMD and LuminArx Capital Management. In a funding round In 2025, Vultr secured an additional $329 million in credit financing from financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, and Goldman Sachs.
Vultr is building a 50-megawatt cluster of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. artificial intelligence processors at a data center in Ohio. The company plans to spend more than $1 billion on the facility, which will come online in the first quarter of 2026.
Vultr senior management include CEO J.J. Kardwell, COO David Gucker, CIO Anthony Quon, CMO Kevin Cochrane, SVP Global Finance and Accounting Matt Short, General Manager of AI and Enterprise Cloud Amit Rai, and SVP Engineering Nathan Goulding.
In 2025, Tencent pressured Vultr to shut down FreeWeChat, a project by GreatFire that archives censored WeChat posts. According to GreatFire, Vultr suspended FreeWeChat's servers without thoroughly investigating the claims, ignoring responses from GreatFire and letters of support from human rights organizations. Vultr formally terminated FreeWeChat's hosting in November 2025.