# DigitalOcean: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `4631991b-ab40-4993-ab2f-55b75714806f`

## Key facts

- **Public status:** Public since March 24, 2021 on NYSE under ticker DOCN; S&P 400 component
- **GPU catalog (Nvidia):** HGX B300 (Blackwell), HGX H200, HGX H100, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 4000 Ada
- **GPU catalog (AMD):** Instinct MI350X (CDNA 4), MI325X, MI300X (both CDNA 3); MI350X and B300 gated to sales contact
- **Announced hourly pricing:** On-demand roughly $0.76 to $11.19 per GPU-hour depending on part; reserved commitments quoted $1.91 to $7.94; per-second billing with 5-minute minimum
- **Datacenter footprint:** GPUs available in NYC2, TOR1, ATL1, RIC1, and AMS3 regions; capacity delivered via colocation partners rather than owned campuses
- **Colocation partner:** Flexential (partnership expanded March 2025 for high-density GPU deployments with H200 and AMD Instinct)
- **Paperspace acquisition:** Acquired 2023 as the on-ramp to GPU cloud; brand later merged into DigitalOcean GPU Droplets
- **Positioning axis:** Inference and fine-tuning oriented (rebranded April 2026 as AI-native cloud for the inference era; launched managed Inference Engine); long-tail SMB rather than hyperscale training
- **Named AI customer:** Hippocratic AI, disclosed May 2026 as scaling to 10 million patient calls on DigitalOcean using Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs
- **Silicon partnerships:** Nvidia (H100, H200, B300 Blackwell Ultra) and AMD (MI300X, MI325X, MI350X); no disclosed custom silicon
- **Total revenue (company-wide):** $692.9M FY2023 (per Wikipedia summary of 10-K); AI/GPU revenue not separately disclosed
- **Employee count:** 1,204 as of 2022 (Wikipedia summary; company has not published a current figure in the material reviewed)
- **GPU inventory disclosure:** Not disclosed; company has not published unit counts of H100/H200/B300/MI300X in reviewed materials
- **Capacity (MW):** Not disclosed; DigitalOcean does not operate its own datacenters and leases capacity from colocation partners including Flexential

- **Slug:** digitalocean
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2011
- **HQ:** Broomfield, Colorado, USA (incorporated Delaware; historically NYC)

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Paddy Srinivasan](/people/paddy-srinivasan.md) Chief Executive Officer (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean is a publicly traded (NYSE: DOCN) developer and small-to-mid-market cloud that entered the GPU market in 2023 by acquiring Paperspace and folding its infrastructure into the DigitalOcean brand as "GPU Droplets." Unlike the training-focused neocloud pack (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Nebius) chasing frontier-lab contracts on 100,000-GPU campuses, DigitalOcean sells GPU capacity the same way it sells VMs: per-second billing, self-serve via API, and single-GPU minimums aimed at startups, indie developers, and enterprises building inference or fine-tuning workloads rather than pre-training runs.

### What does DigitalOcean make?

DigitalOcean has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. DigitalOcean builds physical robots.

### Is DigitalOcean publicly traded?

DigitalOcean is not an independent public company; it has been acquired, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean has no separately traded stock; it has been acquired.

### Where is DigitalOcean headquartered?

DigitalOcean is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA (incorporated Delaware; historically NYC).

### Who owns DigitalOcean?

DigitalOcean has been acquired and is no longer independently owned.

### Is DigitalOcean a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, DigitalOcean ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was DigitalOcean founded?

DigitalOcean was founded in 2011.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.digitalocean.com/products/gpu-droplets
2. https://www.digitalocean.com/press
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean
4. https://investors.digitalocean.com/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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