Companies in High Performance Computing
There are 459 companies in High Performance Computing which include Altair, DDN, CoreWeave, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cerebras. 211 companies in High Performance Computing are funded, with 119 having secured Series A funding. Till date, the sector has seen the creation of 12 Unicorns. United States has the most number of companies in High Performance Computing (189), followed by India
(33), and then China (29).
2026 has seen the creation of 8 High Performance Computing companies. On average, the last 10 years have seen 17 new companies launched every year. Most number of High Performance Computing startups have been founded by alumni from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and University of California (Berkeley).
Here is a List of top companies in High Performance Computing
1. Altair
Provider of enterprise software for simulation, data analytics, AI, and HPC. Delivers cloud-accessible platforms that converge modeling, simulation, high-performance computing, and analytics to support digital engineering and product development. Offers a unified cloud gateway for accessing design tools, AI workflows, and scalable compute resources. Includes dedicated platforms for low- and no-code data analytics, AI model development, and AI-assisted design and simulation across industries.
Key facts about Altair
- Founded Year: 1985
- Location: Troy (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $35.1M
- Investors: General Atlantic, Europa and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 11, 2023, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 77/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 3 of 1,683 Competitors
2. DDN
Platform offering big data and HPC storage appliances for businesses. It provides storage arrays, file systems, and object storage appliances for the cloud and data intensive environments and big data applications. It offers IME, a burst buffer, IO and application accelerator, Scalar, a parallel file system appliance, and WOS, a high performance object storage solution. The company offers products that provide data management, network-attached storage, block data storage, clustered file systems, and object storage. The company serves the entertainment, internet media, surveillance, and HPC vertical markets.
Key facts about DDN
- Founded Year: 1998
- Location: Chatsworth (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $310M
- Investors: ClearLight Partners, Blackstone and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jan 23, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 75/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 81 Competitors
3. CoreWeave
Provider of cloud computing services for artificial intelligence workloads. It combines next-generation infrastructure, intelligent tools, and expert support to power the world’s most complex AI workloads. It provides a platform with tools for AI model training, inference, and development. The company delivers managed Kubernetes and Slurm on Kubernetes.
Key facts about CoreWeave
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Livingston (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $2.38B
- Investors: Magnetar, Coatue and 37 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Apr 15, 2026, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 75/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 8 of 924 Competitors
Provider of edge-to-cloud solutions, products, and services for enterprise organizations. The company offers hybrid cloud, networking, security, data management, and artificial intelligence solutions. Its product portfolio includes supercomputing, compute, storage, and software. The company provides services from planning to operations, helping organizations accelerate transformation and maximize investments.
Key facts about Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Houston (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Investors: Europa, OSTI and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Sep 04, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 73/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 11 of 154,325 Competitors
5. Cerebras
Provider of high-performance AI infrastructure and wafer-scale computing solutions. It leverages proprietary wafer-scale processor technology to power generative AI, real-time reasoning, conversational AI, and intelligent agent workflows with significantly higher speed and efficiency than traditional GPU-based systems. Its offerings support cloud, on-premise, and private deployment environments, enabling organizations to build, fine-tune, and serve large AI models at scale while optimizing performance, latency, and infrastructure costs.
Key facts about Cerebras
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $2.82B
- Investors: Coatue, Tiger Global Management and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Apr 16, 2026, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 72/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 126 Competitors
