SkyPilot raises $20M seed to unify GPU scheduling across clouds and clusters
skypilot_org · x · 2026-10-03
SkyPilot announced its platform launch and a $20M seed round, positioning itself as one interface for AI compute spread across Kubernetes, Slurm, and 20+ clouds.
- Problem solved: GPUs scattered across clouds and clusters are hard to manage and often idle; SkyPilot gives researchers one interface to run jobs everywhere and infra teams one place to manage them, with scheduling optimizations to keep GPUs busy.
- Customer proof points: Meta FAIR uses it to manage a 100k+ GPU Slurm fleet; Abridge moved off Slurm and unlocked 10x faster development cycles; H Company scaled online RL to 2,000+ GPUs on Kubernetes; Sarvam lets hundreds of researchers share thousands of Blackwell GPUs with quotas and policies instead of ticket queues.
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