SummuS Render

summus.es ↗ ·Madrid ·Series A

SummuS Render is a Madrid-based render farm and high-performance computing provider offering 3D rendering, VFX and massive computing as a service from its own award-winning data centre, plus SimpleCloud, its cloud/hybrid virtual workspace platform for remote collaborative creative work. Founded in 2008, it serves animation, VFX, video games, architecture/AEC, engineering and education customers and has rendered feature films including Tad the Explorer 2, Underdogs and work on Final Fantasy XV. It has raised roughly €13-14M across several rounds (including a €1.6M round led by Inveready and Caixa Capital Risc and later backing from Easo Ventures, Conexo Ventures and CDTI Innvierte).

Founded
2008
Founders
4
Total funds raised
€3.4M
Rounds
4
Investors
8
Last round
Feb 2024
SectorsCloud Computing, High Performance Computing, 3D Rendering / VFX, Media & Entertainment, Enterprise SaaS Start-up MapEnterprise Software › Infrastructure & operations software

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Founders

Daniel Carregado Fernández
Co-founder & CTO (no longer at the company)
Fernando Viñuales Allué
Co-founder & Commercial Director (CMO/COO)
Sergio González
Co-founder & CEO
Sergio González Sainz
Co-founder & President

Global models 5

CoreWeave
United States · www.coreweave.com ↗
Began as a GPU cloud for VFX and rendering and sells GPU computing as a service from its own data centres, a much larger version of SummuS's render-farm and HPC model.
$1.6BComparable
Rescale
United States · rescale.com ↗
Sells high-performance computing as a service to engineering and simulation customers, matching SummuS's massive-computing offer.
$260MComparable
Paperspace
United States · www.paperspace.com ↗
Sold cloud GPU virtual workstations and computing to creative and 3D users, like SummuS's SimpleCloud virtual workspace; DigitalOcean bought it in 2023.
$35MComparable
Parsec
United States · parsec.app ↗
Sold remote-workstation access for studios in games, animation and VFX, matching SimpleCloud's collaborative remote workspace; Unity bought it in 2021.
$25MComparable
Fox Renderfarm
Runs a pay-per-use cloud render farm for animation, VFX, film and architectural visualisation studios, the closest match to SummuS's core rendering business.
n/aComparable

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Funding rounds 4

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