# Shadeform: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `2991ee20-f16d-456e-8634-1e991828fb63`

## Key facts

- **Business model:** GPU cloud marketplace aggregator: resells capacity from 15+ third-party neoclouds through one API and one bill. Owns no GPUs or datacenters.
- **Providers integrated:** 15+ GPU cloud providers (self-reported); aggregates availability, pricing, and specs across them.
- **Positioning:** Long-tail and mid-market rental; serves inference and burst training rather than multi-thousand-GPU reservations.
- **Y Combinator batch:** Summer 2023.
- **Team size:** 11 people per YC profile (as of 2026-08); no separately disclosed headcount.
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California.
- **Founders:** [Ed Goode](/people/ed-goode.md) (CEO) and [Ronald Ding](/people/ronald-ding.md) (CTO).
- **Funding:** [No priced venture round publicly disclosed beyond Y Combinator's standard S23 investment; company has not announced a Seed or Series A.](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **GPU inventory:** None owned. Inventory is whatever the 15+ upstream providers list; Shadeform has not published aggregate counts by generation.
- **Datacenter footprint:** None owned or leased; footprint is inherited from upstream provider regions.
- **Anchor customers:** Not publicly disclosed.
- **Public status:** Private.

- **Slug:** shadeform
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2023
- **HQ:** San Francisco, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Ed Goode](/people/ed-goode.md) Co-founder and CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Ronald Ding](/people/ronald-ding.md) Co-founder and CTO (_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._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Shadeform?

Shadeform is a GPU cloud marketplace, not a neocloud that owns silicon. The San Francisco company, founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, sits one layer above the operators: it aggregates live availability, pricing, and specs from more than fifteen third-party GPU clouds and lets a developer provision, monitor, and tear down instances across all of them through one API and one bill. In effect it is a Kayak or Expedia for H100/H200/B200 rental capacity, competing with brokerage layers like SFCompute and the marketplace side of Vast.ai rather than with the CoreWeaves and Lambdas whose inventory it resells.

### What does Shadeform make?

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

### Is Shadeform publicly traded?

No. Shadeform is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Shadeform?

Shadeform is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Shadeform headquartered?

Shadeform is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

### Who owns Shadeform?

Shadeform is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Shadeform a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Shadeform ranks in roughly the top 97% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Shadeform founded?

Shadeform was founded in 2023.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shadeform
2. https://docs.shadeform.ai
3. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/5-neat-ai-startups-from-y-combinators-summer-2023-batch/

## 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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