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Starkey co-founded NexGen Cloud to sell European-owned GPU capacity, and Hyperstack is the self-serve face of that bet for teams that want on-demand training and inference without a U.S.-only cloud.
Chris Starkey is chief executive and co-founder of NexGen Cloud, the company behind Hyperstack, a United Kingdom-based GPU cloud for AI training and inference. He leads a founding group that includes strategy and technical co-founders and sells European-owned capacity to teams that want alternatives to the largest public clouds.
Founding a UK AI Cloud in 2020
NexGen Cloud was founded in 2020 as a UK-owned, EU-sovereign AI cloud platform, according to the Hyperstack about page. Starkey is listed as CEO and co-founder alongside co-founders such as Youlian Tzanev on strategy and other operators across product and infrastructure. The company markets sustainability and data-sovereignty as part of the pitch, not only raw GPU rental.
Putting Hyperstack in Front of Builders
Hyperstack is the self-serve product surface for on-demand, reserved and spot GPU virtual machines aimed at training and inference workloads. Customer quotes on the about page emphasize speed of provisioning and support, which is the operating bar Starkey's team has to clear against larger hyperscalers.
Running the Company Toward European Scale
Starkey's public bio on the same page calls him a tech investor as well as operator and frames the goal as growing NexGen Cloud into a major European AI infrastructure company. He remains the CEO voice for the organization, including a published CEO letter track on the site, while Hyperstack continues to compete in the crowded GPU-cloud market on sovereignty and self-serve access.
