Founder of a listed tool
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder and CTO, named behind the Lambda Cloud listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Stephen builds
Lambda Cloud D · GPU & serverless compute
On-demand GPU virtual machines and clusters, with an API for provisioning compute and persistent storage.
Co-founder and CTO, researched 27 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
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 Group SK Telecom T. Rowe Price Mercato Partners Bloomberg Beta Google
Questions
Who is Stephen Balaban?
Stephen Balaban co-founded Lambda, the GPU cloud and AI infrastructure company, in 2012 and is now its CTO. Earlier he was the first engineering hire at Perceptio, a startup building on-device face recognition neural networks that Apple acquired in 2015. He studied computer science and economics at the University of Michigan.
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 Group, SK Telecom, T. Rowe Price, Mercato Partners, Bloomberg Beta and Google.
How are Stephen'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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