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Applied Compute

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Applied Compute

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Specific Intelligence for Your Business observed

fresh · evidence today 11 sources no confidence data
74.8/100
Venture signal
scored above 91% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What is established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index, but not in its Early-stage view: its latest round is $100M or more and no source states its stage. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Fit not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    Venture backing, as assessed: no institutional venture investor identified · Stage, as assessed: not established by any source

    Assessed 2026-11-12 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$350M
2026-11-04
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
10
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.appliedcompute.com product surface 11-14 inference.appliedcompute.com 11-14 staging.appliedcompute.com launch prep 11-14

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (25% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

9 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

12 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 12 not evaluated

Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

How it's evaluated 3 independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
75/100
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VIX signals 3 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake observations. Where one was recorded before a raise, the gap is shown; that is an observation, not a prediction.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
10 observed
Total open roles
15 observed
Market & funding stage 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Latest round stage (as stated)
not provided
Latest round amount
$350M observed
Latest round announced
2026-11-04 observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-11-04 Round · $350M · Investors: NVIDIA · lead not recorded

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 74.8/100 for applied-compute, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.974 0.1948
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.8176 0.2453

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$350M
announced 2026-11-04 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-11-04
Money moved on or after
2026-11-04
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-11-04 by its own source.

Counterparty exposure shared-investor contagion

Companies coupled to this one by a shared investor — if a common backer pulls back or a fund hits trouble, the shock propagates across the set. More shared investors = tighter coupling.

Mecka AI 1 shared nvidia Nous Research 1 shared nvidia

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0

Gray-market attention, not quality. 1+ HN mentions (peak 3 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 3 Ari, Applied Compute's in-house AI research agent 2026-09-08 ↗

Raw observations 28 current records ▾

Showing the 28 current records. Full observation history — 17 superseded records →

AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "AC2 is one unified platform to train, serve, and continuously improve models you own.", "quote": "AC2 is one unified platform to train, serve, and continuously improve models yo observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 promoted 0.50
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed readiness 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
common_name Applied Compute observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-04 normalized 0.90
common_name Applied Compute observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 3 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612715", "title": "Ari, Applied Compute's in-house AI research agent", "points": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-08"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-08 normalized 0.20
description Specific Intelligence for Your Business observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.70
domain www.appliedcompute.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.95
funding.round.amount_usd 350000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-04 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-11-04 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-04 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-04 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/03/ai-cloud-startup-applied-compute-raises-350m-after-reaching-key-revenue-milestone/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-04 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 14, "source_id": "01M7BM3W2RDFDP6SFVGZ7H1ZK6", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.60
jobs.board_url https://www.appliedcompute.com/careers observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 10 observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.observed {"url": "https://www.appliedcompute.com/careers", "basis": "job_links", "method": "read automatically from the job links on the company's own careers page (two or more distinct titles required)", "tit observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 15 observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 350000000 derived calc 2026-11-04 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 10.0651 derived calc 2026-11-14 derived 0.90
platform.visibility published observed inclusion 2026-11-13 normalized 1.00
score.venture_signal 74.8 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.60
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "applied-compute: Applied Compute | Applied Compute", "source_id": "01M7BM3W2RDFDP6SFVGZ7H1ZK6", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:04e14d0afff264e562eb27884ba0efb3876fa560f observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.appliedcompute.com observed enrichment 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
website_url https://www.appliedcompute.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.80