Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips
Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing expected next year.
The raise follows a very different kind of financing earlier in its run, when Lambda borrowed $917mn against its GPUs to buy more chips from the company that also invests in it.
The business is straightforward to describe and expensive to run. Lambda rents out Nvidia accelerators and the surrounding infrastructure to companies training and serving AI models, competing with the hyperscalers on price and with a growing field of specialist neoclouds on availability.
Equity ahead of an IPO does something the leveraged loan could not. Debt secured against depreciating hardware is an unforgiving instrument, and a public market debut is easier to price when the balance sheet is not dominated by borrowings against chips whose...
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