Building a listed tool
Michel Combes
CEO, named behind the Lambda Cloud listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Michel builds
Lambda Cloud D · GPU & serverless compute
On-demand GPU virtual machines and clusters, with an API for provisioning compute and persistent storage.
CEO, researched 29 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Dave Ward President, Product and Engineering
- Michael Balaban Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
- Paul Zhao EVP and General Manager, Lambda Cloud
- Stephen Balaban Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
TWG Global US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT) Andra Capital SGW Andrej Karpathy ARK Invest Fincadia Advisors G Squared In-Q-Tel (IQT) KHK & Partners NVIDIA Pegatron Supermicro Wistron Wiwynn 1517 Fund Crescent Cove B Capital SK Telecom T. Rowe Price Mercato Partners Bloomberg Beta Google
Questions
Who is Michel Combes?
Michel Combes became Lambda's chief executive in May 2026, when co-founder Stephen Balaban moved to lead technology full-time as CTO. At his appointment he was chairman and chief executive of Brightspeed, and he was earlier chief executive of SoftBank International, Sprint and Alcatel-Lucent.
What does Lambda make?
Anchor Terminal lists Lambda Cloud from Lambda. On-demand GPU virtual machines and clusters, with an API for provisioning compute and persistent storage.
Who has invested in Lambda?
The sources our research read name TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, 1517 Fund, Crescent Cove, B Capital, SK Telecom, T. Rowe Price, Mercato Partners, Bloomberg Beta and Google.
How are Michel's tools graded?
Lambda Cloud is graded D, 50.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://lambda.ai/leadership
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbalaban
- https://x.com/stephenbalaban
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gpus
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundermode
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwardjr
- https://lambda.ai/
- https://lambda.ai/support
- https://support.lambda.ai/hc/en-us/requests/new
- https://deeptalk.lambdalabs.com/
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