AI infrastructure

Lilac

Website
Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Lilac sells flexible GPU contracts and runs the software layer on top: monitoring, bare-metal provisioning, and managed Kubernetes and Slurm. We also run this layer for GPU cloud providers as their named operations and support partner.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Lucas Ewing

Founder/CEO

I'm Lucas, born and raised in Stockholm Sweden, and moved to the US for High School and College (Harvey Mudd '23!) Working on democratizing GPUs!

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ryan Ewing

Founder

I'm Ryan, a software engineer with a background in building cloud and networking services at AWS. Currently working on Lilac, a spot GPU marketplace that leverages idle GPUs in data centers and on-prem clusters. www.getlilac.com

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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