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Evocative

www.evocative.com

Evocative is a US colocation and interconnection operator that has repositioned around AI, ML, and high-performance-computing workloads under its EvoPod…

Track Evocative
Founded
2010
HQ
Hayward, California, USA
Status
private

Overview

Evocative is a US colocation and interconnection operator that has repositioned around AI, ML, and high-performance-computing workloads under its EvoPod platform. The company is headquartered in the Los Angeles area and runs a portfolio of 11 US data centers plus a broader network of points-of-presence across 14 metros, including four sites in California (Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, San Jose, Santa Clara) and locations in Phoenix, Atlanta, Secaucus, Boston, Plano, and Seattle. Alongside colocation it sells network, bare metal, and managed services, and has been named to CRN's MSP 500 Elite 150 for eleven consecutive years.

The operator is backed by private-equity sponsor Crestline Investors and in December 2025 secured additional debt financing from a global investment firm to fund expansion in existing metros. Public references identify named enterprise tenants including SingleStore and Exabeam, and the company markets EvoPod as high-density infrastructure aimed at AI training and inference tenants rather than hyperscale wholesale. Evocative is privately held; no MW capacity figure or employee count is disclosed on its public site.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Axis classification

OFF-AXIS — data center colocation / hosting, not a physical AI system maker, operator, or regulator

Headquarters

Los Angeles, California area

US data center footprint

11 US colocation facilities across California (4), Arizona, Georgia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas (2), and Washington

Interconnection footprint

24 data centers and 32 points-of-presence across 14 metros (company disclosure)

Parent / sponsor

Backed by Crestline Investors (private equity)

Latest funding

Debt investment from an unnamed global investment firm announced 2025-12-16 to fund metro-market expansion

Named tenants

SingleStore and Exabeam disclosed as customers in company case studies

Product positioning

EvoPod high-density colocation targeting AI, ML, and HPC workloads

Portfolio capacity (MW)

Not publicly disclosed

Public listing status

Privately held; no exchange listing

Recognition

CRN MSP 500 Elite 150 for 11 consecutive years (2026); Inc. 5000 for 6 consecutive years (2025, rank 3372)

Data & sources

Web sources

3

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Partnerships

Every company Evocative has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1NVIDIA1× joint1112 total

Most recent

Relationships

NNVIDIATechnology partner

Current leadership (2)

  • Derek Garnier Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
  • Jay Smith Vice President (data center operations)reported, not verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Evocative.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Evocative on the data-center map

Every verified data center Evocative operates that has a mapped coordinate (6 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Evocative data centers (6)

AI data centers Evocative operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Recent coverage

Evocative in third-party press

‘Moonfish’ Review: Morgan Spector and Lucy Liu Voice a Spare but Evocative Animated Sci-Fi Suffused With Loneliness

Sep 18, 2026

Me robot, you humane? - Apollo – The International Art Magazine

Jun 24, 2026

The latest game from the creator of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus delivers evocative, mysterious trailer - Epic Games Store

Jun 10, 2026