Stoa

Institutional marketplace for buying and selling GPUs and AI hardware, where an AI feature writes a request for quote from a plain-language description or an attached quote PDF, and a market-pricing product called Stoa Intelligence reports prices for AI hardware.

StageUndisclosed
Founded2026
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA
StatusPrivate
stoaexchange.com

Product

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PacificUndisclosedStoa and Pacific Pod do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLambdaLate-stageStoa and Lambda Superclusters do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCore42UndisclosedStoa and Core42 Sovereign AI Cloud do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOraclePublicStoa and OCI Compute for GPUs do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSenseTimePublicStoa and SenseScale SSP do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSchneider ElectricPublicStoa and NetShelter Power Rack 800VDC both list AI compute hardware; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHewlett Packard EnterprisePublicStoa and HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTenstorrentLate-stageStoa and Wormhole both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSuper Micro ComputerPublicStoa and Supermicro Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; Super Micro Computer's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation; ships hardware and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAMDPublicStoa and AMD Kria SOMs both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDell TechnologiesPublicStoa and Dell PowerEdge XE7745 both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuawei CloudUndisclosedStoa and GPU Accelerated Cloud Server do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSambaNovaLate-stageStoa and SambaRack both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships hardware, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCiscoPublicStoa and Cisco AI PODs both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareArista NetworksPublicStoa and 7060X5 Series both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVast.aiUndisclosedStoa and Vast.ai Clusters both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareQualcommPublicStoa and Qualcomm Dragonwing AI On-Prem Appliance both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAmazonPublicStoa and AWS Inferentia both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKakao EnterpriseUndisclosedStoa and AI Insight both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSamsung ElectronicsPublicStoa and Samsung Foundry HPC/AI Service both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNVIDIAPublicStoa and NVIDIA DGX B300 both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCrusoeLate-stageStoa and Crusoe Spark both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAxelera AILate-stageStoa and Axelera AI Mini PC both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTouchmarkUndisclosedStoa and Touchmark both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTogether AILate-stageStoa and Together Frontier AI Factory both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOpenRelayUndisclosedStoa and OpenRelay both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCoreWeavePublicStoa and CoreWeave Sandboxes both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAlphabet (Google)PublicStoa and Google Cloud TPU do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRunPodLate-stageStoa and Serverless both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNebius GroupPublicStoa and Serverless AI both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFalUndisclosedStoa and fal Compute both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuaweiUndisclosedStoa and Atlas 650E AI Server both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; Huawei's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHorizon RoboticsPublicStoa and Journey 6 Series both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships hardware and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNodus ComputeUndisclosedStoa and Nodus both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAlibabaPublicStoa and Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSK HynixPublicStoa and HBM3E both list AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMistral AILate-stageStoa and Mistral Compute both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare4ParadigmPublicStoa and 4Paradigm SageOne both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIntelPublicStoa and Intel Cloud Services do comparable work on AI compute hardware and GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSK TelecomPublicStoa and SKT GPUaaS both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNAVER CloudUndisclosedStoa and ML expert Platform both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHumainUndisclosedStoa and HUMAIN COMPUTE both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBaiduPublicStoa and Baidu Baige AI Computing Platform both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTencentPublicStoa and Tencent Cloud HAI both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModalLate-stageStoa and Modal both list GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHailo TechnologiesAcquiredStoa and Hailo-10H both list AI compute hardware; Stoa's scale not recorded; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareArm HoldingsPublicStoa and Arm Neoverse CSS N4 both list AI compute hardware; Stoa's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Not found · 20 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no funding total. Tried the home and privacy pages and the company's YC profile.

Valuation

Not found · 20 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no valuation. Tried the home and privacy pages and the company's YC profile.

Founded

Company disclosure · 20 Oct 2026

Own YC profile lists Founded: 2026; stoaexchange.com states no founding year.

Public listing

Not found · 20 Oct 2026

No listing on the pages read; treated as private.

Description

Official documentation · 20 Oct 2026

Home page: "The institutional marketplace to buy and sell GPUs and AI hardware." The footer reads "© 2026 Stoa Markets, Inc."; the pages show no registration details.

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