Our mission is to democratize cloud computing by putting the world's latent compute to work.
The compute for most of today's applications already exists, in gaming PCs, in workstations, in servers that sit idle most of the day. Since 2018, Salad has built the orchestration that turns that latent hardware into a sustainable, affordable cloud for everyone.
Two competencies, one company.
Salad knows how to orchestrate containerized workloads across distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure it does not control. And Salad knows how to aggregate idle GPUs, from hundreds of thousands of individuals and, increasingly, from enterprises, into a cloud with utilization and prices no data center can match. SaladCloud, Salad Dedicated, and Private Cloud are three products built on those two skills.
A two-sided network.
On the supply side, Salad Chefs run our desktop app and earn rewards when their PCs are idle. On the demand side, businesses deploy containers to that network through Salad Container Engine and pay per second. A proprietary trust system, hypervisor isolation, and nine years of operating experience sit between the two.
From crypto experiment to orchestration cloud.
- 2018
Salad incorporated. Seed investment from Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Ventures. Alpha release.
- 2019
Supercomputer status: the network surpasses Cray's Jaguar. MVP with dynamic earnings.
- 2020
$3.2M seed-plus round. 1,000+ daily users.
- 2021
Tom's Hardware: Salad is faster than the world's ninth-largest supercomputer. Salad 1.0 launches.
- 2022
$17M Series A co-led by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures. Salad Container Engine launches as the first fully managed container service on crowdsourced infrastructure. Trust system ships.
- 2023
SOC 2 Type I. Salad Transcription API. Civitai, Blend, and others move production inference to SaladCloud.
- 2024–2025
RTX 4090 and 5090 join the network. Recipes, Job Queues, and Container Gateway mature. Published benchmarks across image, voice, vision, and simulation.
- 2026
AI Gateway. Salad joins the Render Network as a subnet. Salad Dedicated and Private Cloud extend the orchestration stack to reserved hardware and enterprise fleets.
A compute crisis, and a fix hiding in plain sight.
Everywhere you look, big ideas are going hungry. Data centers can't be built fast enough, and centralized providers set the prices and ration the supply. Without a more affordable, plentiful cloud, the future belongs to the same people as the present.
Consumer and workstation hardware has quietly become capable of serving most AI workloads. Salad activates it: performant, available, entirely people-powered cloud services, at a fraction of the cost, and with a smaller footprint than building more data centers.
Promises we make to ourselves, our partners, and the Kitchen.
Champion collaboration
The web should enshrine its users and innovators as equal inheritors. We help everyone participate, and we don't let good ideas die on the vine.
Step up, not on
No one is a data point, a server, or a node. We celebrate the people who make Salad possible and disagree only to amplify.
All truth. No bullshit.
Our users always know exactly what runs on their hardware. We tell the truth to customers, partners, and each other, even when it's difficult.
Disciplined, not policed
Autonomy is the engine of ingenuity. We take extreme ownership of our commitments and trust each other to meet a high standard our own way.
Backed by
A distributed team, by design.
Salad is built by a remote team with unlimited vacation, company hardware, 75% health premiums covered for employees and dependents, and a home-office budget. Open roles are posted on our careers page.