Spectro Cloud
Spectro Cloud provides infrastructure management software for AI workloads across cloud and edge environments. The company has raised $263M, most recently in a Series D round in 2026, and serves enterprise customers including GE HealthCare and the U.S. Air Force.
The growth story
Spectro Cloud grew from 142 to 309 employees between 2023 and 2026, raising $263M along the way, most recently a Series D in July 2026.
About
Spectro Cloud's PaletteAI platform manages virtual machines, containers and AI workloads in hybrid environments. It targets large organizations needing to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, with claims of enabling production AI setups in 30 days.
The company has grown to 309 employees since its 2019 founding, with backing from strategic investors including AMD Ventures and Ericsson. Its Series D suggests continued expansion in the competitive AI infrastructure space.
Founders and leadership
Engineering dominates the organization with 88 employees. Leadership appears focused on scaling the platform's capabilities for large-scale deployments across diverse environments.
The Spectro Cloud org chart
Tenry Fu (CEO & Co-Founder) leads 60 mapped leaders with 21 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
- Regional Vice President, EMEA | AI-SaaS-Infrastructure | EMEA AI Growth DriverExecutive
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 131 (+20% YoY), Sales 40 (+33% YoY), Business Development 24 (+26% YoY), Information Technology 23 (+44% YoY), Marketing 15 (+36% YoY), Arts and Design 14 (+40% YoY).
Talent flow
The team draws heavily from infrastructure veterans, with Cisco (37 hires) and VMware (18) being top talent sources. Alumni have founded four companies including FreytTech and Vorabound.
Most common previous employers of Spectro Cloud staff: Cisco (37), Cisco CloudCenter (formerly CliQr) (19), VMware (18), Red Hat (13), IBM (11), Amazon Web Services (AWS) (10). Former Spectro Cloud employees most often moved to Temporal Technologies (3), Akamai Technologies (3), BrowserStack (2), Docker (2), Nebius (2), UiPath (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Spectro Cloud mafia
Four alumni-founded companies exist, including infrastructure-focused FreytTech and consumer ventures like Malby's Café. The founder movement remains small but shows diversification beyond core tech.
4Urvish Shah, was Director of Operations, Engineering until 2024Austin Malby, was SDR - laaS & PaaS Specialist (Kubernetes - Cloud, Edge & VM's) until 2024Amber Seels, was Global Director of Sales Development until 2026Varun Chandan, was Software Engineer until 2023Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 82% direct, 9% search, 2% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Spectro Cloud: Kubernetes (117), Cloud Computing (110), Linux (91), Amazon Web Services (AWS) (89), Python (Programming Language) (87), Management (87), Leadership (84), Java (74).
Where the team actually sits
Spectro Cloud people are concentrated in California, United States (33), Karnataka, India (25), England, United Kingdom (15), San Francisco Bay Area (14).
Search footprint
Spectro Cloud attracts about 923 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $17K a month if bought through ads. It gained 357 ranking keywords and lost 309 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.70 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.70 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.50 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.40 / 5
Frequently asked
Spectro Cloud has 309 employees as of September 2026.
Spectro Cloud has raised $263M in total, most recently a Series D round in July 2026.
Spectro Cloud was founded in 2019 by Saad Malik, Tenry Fu.
Tenry Fu (CEO & Co-Founder) sits at the top of Spectro Cloud's reporting structure, with 21 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Spectro Cloud staff are Cisco (37 people), Cisco CloudCenter (formerly CliQr) (19 people), VMware (18 people).
Former Spectro Cloud employees most often move to Temporal Technologies (3), Akamai Technologies (3), BrowserStack (2).
At least 4 companies have a founder who previously worked at Spectro Cloud, including FreytTech, Malby's Café, Vorabound.
Spectro Cloud attracts about 923 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $17K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Spectro Cloud staff are Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python (Programming Language).
Spectro Cloud staff are concentrated in California, United States (33), Karnataka, India (25), England, United Kingdom (15).
Spectro Cloud has about 131 people in Engineering, up 20% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Spectro Cloud has about 40 people in Sales, up 33% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 237 current and 128 former Spectro Cloud profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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