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We automatically monetize idle GPUs

Summer 2025Founded 20254 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote

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Lilac taps idle GPUs from cloud providers and enterprises, giving startups and researchers cheaper inference while letting companies monetize unused capacity. Fully automated with Kubernetes integration.

Founders ยท 2

Ryan Ewing
Ryan EwingFounder
Amazon

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

Lucas Ewing
Lucas EwingFounder

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!

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator ยท Aug 2025
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Lilac! The open-source tool that ensures your data scientists always have GPUs

Lilac is an open-source platform that unifies multi-cloud and on-prem GPU resources into a single compute fabric. It announces v0.1.0 and provides an intelligent scheduler to run training jobs on the first available suitable GPU, aiming to improve data scientist productivity and provide centralized visibility for infrastructure teams.

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