Liqid
Liqid sells a software-defined composable infrastructure platform (LIQID Matrix) that pools and dynamically reassigns GPUs, CXL memory, and storage across bare-metal servers for AI and HPC workloads, sold to enterprises, federal agencies, and research customers through direct sales and OEM partners.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2018
- HeadquartersBroomfield, United States
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Liqid does
Liqid, Inc. is a privately held US software company (Westminster, Colorado) that sells a software-defined composable infrastructure platform for enterprise AI and high-performance computing. Its core product, LIQID Matrix, is a single-pane-of-glass orchestration layer with built-in RESTful APIs that disaggregates GPUs, DRAM, and storage into software-defined pools and dynamically composes them onto bare-metal servers in real time, with no application rewrite and no reboots. On the hardware side, Liqid ships the UltraStack product line (PCIe Gen5 fabric, scaling up to 30 GPUs per host including 600W-class parts such as NVIDIA B200 and RTX Pro 6000), the SmartStack product line (CXL 2.0-based pooled memory up to 100TB per host and across 32 hosts), the EX-5410C/P ten-slot expansion chassis, the FX-5015C CXL 2.0 fabric switch, and the HX-5160C-1C CXL 2.0 HBA; it claims more than 100 granted patents in PCIe composability and CXL.
Liqid sells on a quote-based, multi-year enterprise contract model with no public price list, combining hardware SKUs with LIQID Matrix software licensing and professional services for AI factory and HPC deployments. Go-to-market is multi-channel: direct enterprise field sales (with "Request a Demo" / "Speak With An Expert" CTAs across the site), OEM-embedded co-sell with Dell, Cisco, HPE, Fujitsu, Samsung, and Supermicro (UltraStack 30 is qualified on Dell PowerEdge R760; SmartStack on PowerEdge MX and C-Series), EMEA distribution via Hammer Distribution (UK, Ireland, Benelux, Nordics), and technology ecosystem partnerships with NVIDIA, Marvell, Nutanix, and the Edgecore/NTT IOWN Open Fabric platform. Named customers span financial services (American Express, Visa), telecom and media (Comcast, Lumen, Orange, Sony, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Activision), technology (Meta, Qualcomm, ServiceNow), pharmaceuticals (AbbVie), retail (Mobly), higher education and research (Texas A&M ACES, TACC Horizon), and federal/defense (U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Army IVAS). The company has raised roughly $219M across 8 disclosed rounds, with peak funding of a $100M Series 3 in December 2021 and more measured follow-on capital of $22.3M (October 2024) and ~$8M (May 2026).
Liqid firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Liqid
- Legal name
- Liqid, Inc.
- Website
- https://liqid.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2018
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- Liqid sells a software-defined composable infrastructure platform (LIQID Matrix) that pools and dynamically reassigns GPUs, CXL memory, and storage across bare-metal servers for AI and HPC workloads, sold to enterprises, federal agencies, and research customers through direct sales and OEM partners.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Liqid industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Composable Infrastructure Software
- NAICS
- Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Computer Storage Devices (3572)
- akta.pro primary industry
- AI Interconnects & Fabric (NVLink/CXL/PCIe/Switches) (HDAAAAAD)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- DePIN Orchestration, Scheduling & Middleware (resource discovery, job scheduling, workload orchestration) (FSAPALAK)
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Where Liqid is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Broomfield
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Liqid business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain
Revenue model
- Hardware sales (UltraStack, SmartStack, expansion chassis, fabric switches, HBAs): Sells physical composable infrastructure products including the EX-5410C CXL 2.0 expansion chassis, EX-5410P PCIe Gen5 expansion chassis, FX-5015C CXL 2.0 fabric switch, and HX-5160C-1C CXL 2.0 HBA, bundled with the Liqid Matrix software license.
- LIQID Matrix software licensing: Software-defined composable infrastructure platform licensed to enterprises to orchestrate GPU, memory, and storage pools across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments. Enterprise sale is quote-based, with no publicly disclosed price list.
- Professional services and integration revenue: Provides deployment, qualification, and integration services for AI factory and HPC builds, with field engineering supporting OEM partners (Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge MX) and large customers such as the U.S. Army, Texas A&M, and Meta.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Quote-based enterprise pricing; no public tiers |
Go-to-market motion4 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels8 records
Liqid product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Liqid sells a software-defined composable infrastructure platform, anchored by the LIQID Matrix software, that lets enterprises compose, pool, and dynamically reallocate GPUs, CXL memory, and storage across industry-standard bare-metal servers in real time over PCIe Gen5 and CXL 2.0 fabrics. The software is sold alongside composable hardware product lines—UltraStack (high-density GPU scale-up to 30 GPUs per host) and SmartStack (shared GPU and CXL memory pools of up to 100TB across up to 32 hosts)—with professional services for AI factory, HPC, and enterprise deployments.
Product overview
Liqid offers a unified software-defined composable infrastructure platform built around the LIQID Matrix® Software as its core orchestration layer. On top of this core platform, Liqid delivers three modular hardware product lines: LIQID Composable GPU Solutions (including UltraStack for high-density scale-up to 30 GPUs per host and SmartStack for shared pooling across up to 20 hosts via the LIQID EX-5410P PCIe Gen5 expansion chassis), LIQID Composable Memory Solutions (CXL 2.0-based SmartStack pooling across the LIQID EX-5410C expansion chassis, LIQID FX-5015C fabric switch, and LIQID HX-5160C-1C HBA), and IO Accelerators. All products are orchestrated through the same Liqid Matrix UI and RESTful APIs, enabling real-time pooling, scaling, and allocation of GPU, CXL memory, and storage resources across bare-metal servers for AI training, inference, HPC, and VDI workloads.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- LIQID Matrix: LIQID's software-defined composable infrastructure platform providing a single unified UI for GPU, Memory, and Storage composability.
- LIQID UltraStack
- LIQID SmartStack
Products and services
- LIQID Matrix Software Software-defined composable infrastructure platform providing a single unified UI and built-in RESTful APIs to compose, scale, pool, and reallocate GPU, CXL memory, and storage resources across bare-metal servers in real time. Supports hot-swap, native integration with Kubernetes, Slurm, OpenShift, VMware, and Ansible, and fabric support for NVIDIA Fusion, Ultra Accelerator Link (UAL), and Ultra Ethernet (UEC). Sold to enterprises running AI, HPC, and VDI workloads.
- LIQID Composable GPU Solutions (UltraStack and SmartStack) Software-defined GPU pooling and scale-up solution using PCIe Gen5 fabric. Includes LIQID UltraStack (high-performance, up to 30 GPUs per host) and LIQID SmartStack (shared pooling across up to 20 hosts). Supports 600W GPUs such as NVIDIA B200 and RTX Pro 6000. Orchestrated end-to-end by LIQID Matrix software for AI training, inference, media rendering, HPC, VDI, and DevOps workloads.
- LIQID Composable Memory Solutions (SmartStack) CXL 2.0-based composable memory solution that disaggregates DRAM into shared pools and provisions up to 100 TB per host and across up to 32 hosts. Includes the LIQID EX-5410C fabric-integrated expansion chassis, LIQID FX-5015C CXL 2.0 fabric switch, and LIQID HX-5160C-1C CXL 2.0 HBA. Targets AI/ML training, in-memory databases (SAP HANA, Redis), HPC, VDI, and Dev/Test workloads.
- LIQID IO Accelerators Product category of LIQID's composable I/O acceleration solutions, listed in the main product navigation alongside LIQID Matrix, Composable GPU Solutions, and Composable Memory Solutions. Specific product details are not detailed in the source material.
Quantifiable outcome
- 10x tokens per second vs. static infrastructure
- +10 more outcomes
Companies that use Liqid
Customer profileNamed customers17 records
Segments8 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Liqid technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration7 records
AI capability7 records
Feature7 records
Liqid partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Hammer DistributioncoreHammer Distribution announced a strategic partnership with Liqid to supply composable infrastructure solutions across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, and Nordics. The collaboration targets power, cooling, and scalability challenges in AI workloads by offering flexible GPU and memory pooling technology, and is expected to improve AI inference efficiency and reduce operational costs in the region.
- Dell TechnologiescoreLiqid UltraStack 30 integrates 30 NVIDIA L40S GPUs into a single Dell PowerEdge R760 server, and Liqid SmartStack is qualified for Dell PowerEdge MX (MX7000) and PowerEdge C-Series modular servers. Co-marketed at Dell Technologies World 2024 alongside Meta, Hugging Face, and Broadcom within the Dell AI Factory narrative.
- CiscocoreCisco is one of Liqid's named server vendor relationships supporting composable infrastructure deployments on industry-standard servers. Liqid's AI Budget blog also references Cisco as a primary server vendor whose hardware can be made more efficient via Liqid's software and fabric layer.
- HPEcoreHPE is referenced alongside Dell, Cisco, and Fujitsu as one of the server vendors whose hardware Liqid's software and fabric layer makes more efficient for AI inference workloads.
- FujitsucoreFujitsu is cited as an early OEM partner of Liqid, named alongside Dell, Cisco, Samsung, and Supermicro in the v3.6 product release coverage.
- SupermicrocoreSupermicro is one of Liqid's named server vendor relationships for composable infrastructure deployments.
- Samsung ElectronicscoreSamsung Electronics, Liqid, and Marvell jointly demonstrated CXL memory pooling and sharing appliances at OCP 2025, capable of scaling up to 100TB of additional memory with 5.1Tbps bandwidth. Samsung is also one of Liqid's named server vendor relationships.
- MarvellcoreMarvell co-demonstrated CXL memory pooling and sharing appliances with Liqid and Samsung at OCP 2025, showing 100TB additional memory with 5.1Tbps bandwidth. Marvell is also named as an ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric IOWN platform.
- NVIDIAcoreLiqid demonstrated GPU and CXL Memory pooling and sharing alongside integrations with NVIDIA NIM at GTC 2026. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA Founder and CEO) is featured on the Liqid homepage endorsing composable infrastructure. Liqid's Matrix software fabric support includes Nvidia Fusion, Ultra Accelerator Link (UAL), and Ultra Ethernet Connection (UEC).
- NutanixcoreLiqid's Liqid Matrix software integrates with Nutanix NKP (Nutanix Kubernetes Platform) as part of the GTC 2026 demonstration of GPU and CXL memory pooling and sharing.
- Kubernetes (CNCF)coreLiqid Matrix provides a Kubernetes plug-in (introduced in v3.6) for one-click deployment of inference workloads, and is demonstrated alongside Kubernetes at GTC 2026.
- Edgecore (an Accton Company)coreEdgecore named Liqid as a featured ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric: Built for IOWN all-photonics AI infrastructure platform unveiled at Computex 2026, which combines optical switching, composable compute, and direct liquid cooling for rack power densities beyond 100 kW.
- NTT (IOWN Global Forum)coreThe Edgecore Open Fabric platform launched at Computex 2026 is built on NTT's IOWN All-Photonics Network architecture, and Liqid is one of the named ecosystem partners contributing composable compute technology.
- AMDcoreAMD is a named ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric IOWN platform. Liqid's blog on Broadcom/AMD PCIe switch collaboration highlights AMD's PCIe/XGMI-based scaling as strategically aligned with Liqid's composable infrastructure roadmap.
- BroadcomcoreBroadcom is a named ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric IOWN platform. Liqid views Broadcom's next-generation PCIe switches supporting AMD's XGMI/Infinity Fabric as strategically aligned with its PCIe Gen5 composable fabric roadmap.
- Penguin SolutionsminorPenguin Solutions is a named ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric IOWN platform at Computex 2026.
- Preferred NetworksminorPreferred Networks is a named ecosystem partner in the Edgecore Open Fabric IOWN platform at Computex 2026.
Scale indicators13 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Liqid competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- GigaIO: GigaIO offers the FabreX composable infrastructure platform, the closest direct competitor to Liqid Matrix. Both companies pool GPUs, memory, and storage across servers using software-defined fabrics (PCIe/CXL) for AI and HPC workloads.
- MemVerge: MemVerge built Big Memory software on top of CXL and Intel Optane to pool memory across servers for AI and in-memory workloads. It overlaps directly with Liqid's SmartStack CXL memory pooling value proposition for AI inference and RAG.
- ScaleFlux: ScaleFlux provides computational storage and composable storage solutions used in AI and database infrastructure. While focused on storage rather than GPU/memory pooling, it competes for similar enterprise AI infrastructure budgets as Liqid's IO Accelerator line.
- Pavilion Data Systems: Pavilion Data delivers a composable, high-throughput NVMe storage platform (Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array) targeting AI and analytics workloads. It competes with Liqid's IO Accelerator and composable storage offerings for enterprise AI infrastructure spend.
- Pliops: Pliops delivers a storage processor (XDP) that accelerates and decomposes storage for AI/analytics databases, conceptually adjacent to Liqid's composable IO Accelerator and storage pooling. Both target GPU-bound AI workloads with storage offload.
- Lightbits Labs: Lightbits Labs offers composable, software-defined block storage (LightOS) on commodity NVMe/TCP for cloud and AI workloads. It overlaps with Liqid's composable storage and IO accelerator layer in enterprise AI infrastructure stacks.
Emerging players
- Astera Labs: Astera Labs builds CXL, PCIe, and Ethernet connectivity silicon (e.g., Aries retimers, Leo CXL controllers) that are increasingly central to composable AI fabrics. Astera's silicon is complementary to and partly competitive with Liqid's software/fabric layer.
- Enfabrica: Enfabrica builds composable, high-radix networking silicon (CFR) for AI/GPU clusters, enabling GPU and accelerator pooling across servers. It is an adjacent but rapidly emerging competitor to Liqid's fabric-layer role in AI infrastructure.
- WekaIO: WekaIO (WEKA) provides a high-performance, software-defined storage platform purpose-built for AI and HPC, commonly deployed alongside GPU servers. It competes for the storage layer of composable AI infrastructure stacks where Liqid positions its IO Accelerators.
Broad incumbents
- Penguin Solutions (formerly SGI/HPE Cray): Penguin Solutions designs HPC and AI infrastructure at scale (including Origin architectures and ICE X) and is an Edgecore Open Fabric ecosystem partner with Liqid. It competes as a broader incumbent AI/HPC systems integrator where Liqid sells composable fabric.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Trust signalCompliance4 records
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Liqid leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles11 records
Liqid funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds8 records
Investors12 records
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Liqid M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Liqid
What does Liqid do?
Liqid sells a software-defined composable infrastructure platform, anchored by the LIQID Matrix software, that lets enterprises compose, pool, and dynamically reallocate GPUs, CXL memory, and storage across industry-standard bare-metal servers in real time over PCIe Gen5 and CXL 2.0 fabrics. The software is sold alongside composable hardware product lines—UltraStack (high-density GPU scale-up to 30 GPUs per host) and SmartStack (shared GPU and CXL memory pools of up to 100TB across up to 32 hosts)—with professional services for AI factory, HPC, and enterprise deployments.
Is Liqid a public or private company?
Liqid is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Liqid founded?
Liqid was founded in 2018. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Liqid based?
Liqid is headquartered in Broomfield, United States, in the North America region.
How does Liqid make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Hardware sales (UltraStack, SmartStack, expansion chassis, fabric switches, HBAs) is the primary driver. The others are LIQID Matrix software licensing and professional services and integration revenue.
Who are Liqid's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are GigaIO, MemVerge, ScaleFlux, Pavilion Data Systems, Pliops and Lightbits Labs. Emerging players are Astera Labs, Enfabrica and WekaIO. Penguin Solutions (formerly SGI/HPE Cray) is listed as a broad incumbent.
Does Liqid have an API?
Yes. Liqid Matrix® Software provides built-in RESTful APIs for composing, scaling, and orchestrating GPU, memory, and storage resources in real time. Developers can programmatically provision and migrate GPUs, allocate CXL memory, and manage composable bare-metal servers via the RESTful API or the Liqid Matrix GUI. Documentation is available at https://docs.liqid.com. Developer documentation is at docs.liqid.com.
What industry is Liqid in?
Liqid's product category is Composable Infrastructure Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAAAAAD, AI Interconnects & Fabric (NVLink/CXL/PCIe/Switches), with a secondary code of FSAPALAK, DePIN Orchestration, Scheduling & Middleware (resource discovery, job scheduling, workload orchestration). Its NAICS code is 334112 and its SIC code is 7373.