Koyeb
Category: AI Infrastructure
Koyeb is a Paris-based serverless cloud platform for deploying and scaling AI applications, APIs, and databases on high-performance CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, acquired by Mistral AI in February 2026. Koyeb was founded in 2020. The company is led by Yann Léger. Based in Paris, France. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $8.6M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Serena, ISAI, Samsung Next, MongoDB, Kima Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures.
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $8.6M
Value proposition
Serverless platform that enables developers to deploy and scale AI applications, APIs, and databases globally in minutes with zero infrastructure management, featuring sub-200ms cold starts, autoscaling from zero, and access to high-performance GPUs (NVIDIA L4, A100, L40S, RTX A6000) at up to 80% cost savings vs hyperscalers.
Products and solutions
Koyeb Serverless Platform (global deployment of containers, APIs, and databases), Koyeb Sandboxes (isolated environments for AI agents), Serverless GPU Inference (NVIDIA RTX-4000-SFF-ADA, L4, RTX-A6000, L40S, A100), Serverless Postgres + pgvector, Managed NVME Storage, Global edge network with 10 datacenters across 3 continents
Unique value
The only serverless platform purpose-built for AI workloads that combines sub-200ms scale-to-zero cold starts, bare-metal performance across 50+ global locations, and access to the latest NVIDIA GPUs — all without any DevOps or infrastructure management.
Target customer
AI/ML teams, developers, SaaS companies, and enterprises needing to deploy and scale AI inference, agent workloads, APIs, and full-stack applications without managing infrastructure
Industries served
AI/ML, SaaS, Gaming (generative AI), Fintech, Blockchain, Education, E-commerce
Technology advantage
Bare-metal server architecture (not running on top of hyperscalers) providing full control over performance and pricing; proprietary software stack built from the ground up for serverless; sub-200ms cold start for scale-to-zero; global edge network with private inter-continental networking; cloud-agnostic core technology; support for CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA
How they differentiate
Unlike hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure) that require complex Kubernetes expertise and high costs, or first-gen serverless platforms with performance tradeoffs, Koyeb offers a purpose-built serverless platform running on bare metal with sub-200ms cold starts, global deployments in minutes, and up to 80% cost savings vs hyperscalers — all without any infrastructure management or code rewrites.
Main competitors
Modal, RunPod, Baseten, Fly.io, Render, Northflank
Key partnerships
NVIDIA (GPU hardware), AMD (CPU/GPU), Intel (CPU/accelerators), MongoDB (database integration), Neon (serverless Postgres), Turso (edge database), Polyscale, Aiven, Upstash (Redis), Equinix Metal (bare metal), Hashicorp (Terraform provider)
Notable customers
Tesla, eToro, Equinix, Kong, MongoDB, Upstash, Aiven, Scenario (generative AI gaming), Strapi, University of British Columbia HART, FoxSell, Beavr
Major milestones
2020: Founded by former Scaleway executives, raised $1.6M pre-seed led by ISAI, 2023: Raised $7M seed round led by Serena with Samsung Next and MongoDB, launched global serverless platform, 2025: Reached $2.6M ARR with 24-person team, launched Koyeb Sandboxes for AI agents, 2026-02: Acquired by Mistral AI (first acquisition for Mistral, valued at $13.8B), Koyeb team to become core of Mistral Compute
Growth metrics
$2.6M revenue (2025); 24-29 employees; 100k+ developers; 10 datacenters; 50+ locations
Market positioning
Positioned as a next-generation serverless cloud platform for AI workloads, competing against both hyperscalers (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run) and specialized AI infrastructure platforms (Modal, RunPod, Baseten). Differentiated by bare-metal performance, global edge distribution, and sub-200ms cold starts.
Geographic focus
Global (10 datacenters across 3 continents, 50+ locations), with strong European focus as a sovereign AI infrastructure alternative to US hyperscalers
About Yann Léger
Ex-EVP at Scaleway (French cloud provider, Iliad Group); co-founded Scaleway's cloud division
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Official website: https://www.koyeb.com