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Ori

Category: AI Infrastructure

An AI-native GPU cloud infrastructure platform that provides on-demand access to top-tier GPUs for training, fine-tuning, and inference of AI models at scale, combining powerful GPU compute with a flexible software layer that optimizes resources. Ori was founded in 2018. The company is led by Mahdi Yahya. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team size: 50-70. Total funding raised: $178.0M. Latest round: Brookfield Merger (Feb 2026). Key investors include ["Episode 1 Ventures","Presidio Ventures","Alphabet","Wa'ed Ventures (Saudi Aramco)","NextEra Energy","Brookfield Asset Management"].

Founded
2018
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
50-70
Total funding
$178.0M

Value proposition

Provides end-to-end AI infrastructure enabling teams to train, serve, and scale AI models effortlessly through a unified platform that offers flexible deployments (public, private, or hybrid), cost-optimized solutions, and compliant GPU compute without the stress of huge capital expenditures and large infrastructure teams.

Products and solutions

["GPU Instances (NVIDIA B200, H200, H100, L40s)","Serverless Kubernetes with autoscaling","Private Cloud Clusters","Bare Metal Services (Ori Metal)","AI Inference Endpoints (real-time, batch processing)","Ori AI Fabric Platform (control plane)","Kubernetes-on-Demand","Model Deployment & Serving (LLaMA, Qwen, DeepSeek via vLLM, TGI, Triton)","Sovereign Cloud Solutions","Regionally Sovereign Data Infrastructure"]

Unique value

Ori AI Fabric platform - a complete, end-to-end software stack that serves as a GPU-centric cloud operating system for building, operating, and monetizing high-performance AI clouds. Features infrastructure-agnostic deployment (public cloud, private environments, or air-gapped), hardware attestation with Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) and secure boot for cryptographic verification, and sovereign cloud capabilities ensuring data compliance with local regulations.

Target customer

AI teams, enterprises, scale-ups, telecommunications companies, governments, and organizations requiring high-performance GPU compute for AI/ML workloads with sovereign cloud requirements

Industries served

["Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning","Biotechnology & Life Sciences","Gaming & Cloud Gaming","Visual Effects (VFX) & Rendering","High-Performance Computing (HPC)","Telecommunications","Public Sector & Government","Healthcare","Finance","Retail"]

Technology advantage

Combines bare-metal-first architecture with integrated MLOps services, enabling telcos, governments, and enterprises to launch their own sovereign, private, or public AI cloud services with lower risk and faster time-to-market. Offers hybrid deployment flexibility with a single control plane unifying AI compute, storage, networking, orchestration, and ML tooling. Demonstrated capability with 1,024 NVIDIA H100 cluster deployment achieving 32 petaflops sustained performance with 3.2 Tbps Infiniband interconnect and 400 Gbps storage connectivity.

How they differentiate

Sovereign AI cloud solutions with Ori AI Fabric platform offering infrastructure-agnostic deployment (public, private, hybrid, air-gapped), hardware attestation with TPMs, and specialization in telco and government sovereign cloud deployments with regional compliance capabilities

Main competitors

["CoreWeave","Lambda Labs"]

Key partnerships

["Brookfield Asset Management (Radiant merger - announced February 2026)","Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures (strategic investor - February 2025)","NVIDIA (hardware partner)","Supermicro (hardware partner)","EdgeConneX (data center provider - Europe: Amsterdam, Munich, Warsaw)","Stelia (data mobility platform partnership)","Seekr (public sector AI solutions partnership)","Kao Data (UK AI Cloud Region deployment)","Centersquare (US data center partner)"]

Notable customers

["Intel","SF Compute","Virgin Galactic","Gamestream","VMware"]

Major milestones

["£140M funding round completed in 2025","Strategic investment from Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures (Feb 2025)","Deployed 1,024 NVIDIA H100 cluster with 3.2 Tbps Infiniband (Feb 2026)","Merged with Brookfield's Radiant platform at $1.3B valuation (Feb 2026)"]

Growth metrics

Deployed 1,024 NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster with 32 petaflops sustained performance; operates from 20+ global locations; expanding to Middle East with Riyadh subsidiary

Market positioning

UK-based specialized GPU cloud provider targeting sovereign cloud deployments, telecommunications providers, and government enterprises with hybrid and private AI infrastructure solutions

Geographic focus

Europe (UK headquarters), United States (Dallas cloud region), Middle East (Riyadh expansion via Wa'ed Ventures partnership)

Patents and IP

No registered patents publicly disclosed as of latest update (February 2026)

About Mahdi Yahya

Entrepreneur, investor, and telecommunications executive with over 12 years of experience building high-caliber technology teams spanning telecoms, blockchain, and data center networking solutions. Former CEO of Sama Telecom (one of the Middle East's largest telecom companies) and Room One. Built networks in data centers across the globe for over 10 years. Forbes Technology Council member. Participant in AI Action Plan roundtable at 10 Downing Street (August 2024). Limited Partner at Episode 1 Ventures.

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