
Secure, sustainable cloud storage and computing for individuals and businesses. Hivenet offers two main services: - Store with Hivenet: A secure and sustainable storage solution that leverages the community’s unused drive space. - Compute with Hivenet: A service that aggregates network computing resources to efficiently handle workloads such as Generative AI, LLM training, video processing, and 3D modeling. Together, these offer a greener, more resilient, and cost-effective alternative to traditional centralized cloud providers.

Secure, sustainable cloud storage and computing for individuals and businesses. Hivenet offers two main services: - Store with Hivenet: A secure and sustainable storage solution that leverages the community’s unused drive space. - Compute with Hivenet: A service that aggregates network computing resources to efficiently handle workloads such as Generative AI, LLM training, video processing, and 3D modeling. Together, these offer a greener, more resilient, and cost-effective alternative to traditional centralized cloud providers.
Founder: David Gurlé — Founder & CEO; company launched in 2022
What they do: Distributed (peer-to-peer) cloud: encrypted storage and distributed GPU/AI-enabled compute using unused capacity on real devices
Funding: €19M total since inception (€7M seed Jun 1, 2022; €12M Series A Mar 27, 2024 led by SC Ventures)
Team: ~70 employees across 19 countries
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Reliance on centralized data-center cloud infrastructure that raises concerns about privacy, resilience, and carbon footprint.
2022
Distributed cloud storage & computing
€7M
Seed investors disclosed by the company include Noor Sweid (Global Ventures), Stéphanie Hospital (OneRagtime), Tom Glocer, Moritz Thiele, Kumar Yamani, and LeFonds (FrenchFounders).
€12M
Series A participation included OneRagtime and several private investors.
“Backed by SC Ventures, OneRagtime, Global Ventures, MI8 (Matignon Investissement & Gestion) and other private investors.”
About Hivenet
We're building the future of cloud infrastructure. Hivenet is a distributed cloud platform offering GPU computing for AI/ML workloads, secure file storage, and fast file transfer—all powered by a sustainable, decentralized architecture that reduces carbon footprint by 77% compared to traditional data centers. We're a well-funded, remote-first team scaling fast across EMEA.
About the Team
The Compute GPU team owns our core GPU cloud infrastructure: Platform Services, billing systems, team management, and the foundational components that power Hivenet Compute. We serve RTX 4090/5090 instances across multiple regions to AI researchers and enterprises building production AI systems.
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