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Saturn Cloud

New York, US · Founded 2019 · Delaware corporation · 2 known investors

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Saturn Cloud provides a control-plane platform that installs on top of a GPU cloud operator's existing Kubernetes, bare metal, and hyperscaler infrastructure, turning their GPU fleet into white-labeled, token-metered AI services. It handles multi-tenant isolation, metering and billing, orchestration, and 24/7 GPU operations support for GPU cloud operators and neoclouds.

Also known as Saturn Cloud

Founders & leadership

Saturn Cloud was founded in 2019 by Michael S Metti, Sebastian Metti, and Hugo Shi.

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Michael S MettiCo-founder
SMSebastian Metti
Sebastian MettiinFounder & CEOFounder of Saturn Cloud, a control-plane platform that enables GPU cloud operators to deliver white-labeled AI infrastructure across Kubernetes, bare metal, and cloud environments.
HSHugo Shi
Hugo ShiinFounderHugo Shi is CTO and founder of Saturn Cloud, a platform that provides orchestration, multi-tenant isolation, and billing management for GPU cloud operators. He has spent 15+ years building and operating large-scale data science and machine learning systems in Python.

Investors · 2

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$6.5M disclosed across 1 round · 2021

$6.5MraisedAug 2021 · 3 investors · Computers
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Hugo R ShiExecutive Officer, Director
  • Michael S MettiExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$6.5M
Amount sold
$6.5M
Minimum investment
$123.7K
First sale
Aug 2021
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Saturn Cloud offers a control plane for GPU clouds that installs on top of infrastructure an operator already owns — bare metal, Kubernetes, Slurm, hyperscaler capacity, or GPU-native (neocloud) fleets — and exposes it as white-labeled, metered AI services including inference endpoints, training and fine-tuning, and GPU developer workspaces (JupyterLab, VS Code, SSH with persistent storage).

The platform's stated functional areas are multi-tenant isolation, day-2 operations support, metering and billing, and orchestration across infrastructure layers. Isolation is implemented at the hardware boundary rather than within a shared control plane: each tenant receives its own Kubernetes or Slurm cluster, its own InfiniBand P_Key coordinated with the operator's networking vendor, its own storage namespace on systems such as VAST Data or Weka, and its own SSO federation, with no shared scheduler, etcd, or admission webhooks between customers. Supporting capabilities include RBAC/IAM and audit logging. Metering tags every GPU-hour by user, project, and tenant, adds per-token metering for inference through the same pipeline, automates committed-use, on-demand and reserved contract terms, produces chargeback reporting, and exports invoicing data via API and as a Snowflake view. Orchestration drives the stack from a bare-metal provisioning request through to a running inference endpoint from one console, with managed Slurm and managed Kubernetes clusters provisioned via the operator's BMaaS partner.

Saturn Cloud supports NVIDIA hardware including H100 and H200 (Hopper SXM5) as generally available and B200 and B300 (Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra SXM6) by request, with 1 to 8 GPUs per workload and listed starting prices from $2.95/hr. The company states the platform can be stood up on customer infrastructure in 15-30 minutes using Terraform and an operator-based install.

Business model

Saturn Cloud licenses its control-plane software to GPU cloud operators, who deploy it on their own hardware and capacity contracts and resell GPU and token-based AI services under their own brand. The offering bundles software with an included 24/7 GPU operations team and contractually negotiated SLOs, positioning Saturn Cloud as the vendor behind the operator's customer-facing service.

Traction

The company states that over 100,000 developers use Saturn Cloud in production, and lists infrastructure, hyperscaler, and neocloud partners including Mirantis, Rafay, Spectro Cloud, OpenNebula, SUSE, Red Hat, Nutanix, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Nebius, and Crusoe.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Saturn Cloud positions itself as the customer-facing layer that sits on top of an operator's existing GPU, Kubernetes, cloud, and BMaaS choices rather than replacing them, and states that more than 100,000 developers use its platform in production.

Stated points of difference include hardware-boundary tenant isolation with no shared scheduler, etcd, or admission webhooks; an included 24/7 on-call GPU and Kubernetes operations team that owns incident response and drives escalations into the operator's BMaaS, networking, and storage vendors; white-labeling with custom logos, color palettes, and domains without code changes; and integrated per-GPU-hour and per-token metering with automated contract-term handling.

Technology

The product is a control plane that installs via Terraform and an operator-based install onto existing Kubernetes, bare metal, and Slurm environments. Tenancy is enforced at the hardware boundary with per-tenant Kubernetes or Slurm clusters, per-tenant InfiniBand P_Keys, per-tenant storage namespaces (VAST Data, Weka, or existing filesystems), and per-tenant identity provider federation. Operational tooling includes GPU-specific monitoring such as Xid error detection and NVML metrics with automatic node cordoning, and workload-aware rolling upgrades of kernel, driver, and Kubernetes versions. Inference is exposed through OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and billing data is available through an API and a Snowflake view.

Go-to-market

GPU cloud operators and neoclouds that own GPU capacity and want a customer-facing, white-labeled platform on top of it, along with enterprise teams within those operators' customer bases running inference, training, fine-tuning, and interactive GPU development.

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Key figures

latest reported
Deployment time on customer infrastructureJan 202615-30 minutes via Terraform and operator-based install
Developers using Saturn Cloud in productionJan 2026100,000 developers
Entry GPU price (H100)Jan 2026$2.95

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Research sources · 1

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Frequently asked questions

What does Saturn Cloud do?
Saturn Cloud sells a white-label control plane that turns a GPU operator's existing fleet into metered AI services.
Who founded Saturn Cloud?
Saturn Cloud was founded by Michael S Metti, Sebastian Metti, Hugo Shi in 2019.
Who are Saturn Cloud's investors?
Saturn Cloud's investors include Outsiders, SignalFire.
How much funding has Saturn Cloud raised?
Saturn Cloud has disclosed $6.5M raised across 1 round.
Where is Saturn Cloud headquartered?
Saturn Cloud is headquartered in New York, US.