NTNU | HUNT Cloud

Name

NTNU | HUNT Cloud

Legal name

HUNT Cloud (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Website

https://about.hdc.ntnu.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secure Research Cloud Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Industry/Vertical Cloud Platforms (e.g., Gov/Healthcare/Financial Cloud Regions) (HDABAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Security (CSPM/CWPP/CIEM) for Health IT (HLACAJAG), Healthcare Data Lakes, Lakehouses & Cloud Warehouses (HLACAIAA), Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI), Data Security & Privacy for Cloud (DLP, DSPM, Tokenization) (HDABAHAK)

Keywords

• Sensitive data cloud
• Research cloud infrastructure
• Secure data processing
• Health data analytics
• Academic cloud services

Headquarters

HQ city

Trondheim

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Digital Lab Services: Organizations and researchers pay for cloud services based on usage. Labs are billed according to resource consumption including storage, compute, and GPU resources. Cost of each lab is covered by the project's own fund.
2. Enterprise Lab Program: Program aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises that need a trustworthy framework when innovating over public data. Custom pricing arrangements.
3. Teaching Labs: Teaching environments provided free of charge for courses that want to transfer excitement of sensitive data analysis to next generation of scientists.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HUNT Cloud provides ISO-certified secure cloud processing environments (Digital Labs) for sensitive data science, enabling research organizations and scientists to analyze personal data, business-critical data, and intellectual property within an academic cloud framework hosted at NTNU in Norway. The platform offers the HUNT Workbench for web-based interactive data science, GPU-accelerated Sensitive AI environments, scalable storage tiers, and compliant data transfer services, all within an ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 27701 certified framework aligned with GDPR, EHDS, HIPAA, and Norwegian Helsenorm requirements.

Product overview

HUNT Cloud is a cloud computing platform for sensitive data science operated by NTNU in Norway. The core offering consists of Digital Labs—secure, ISO-certified processing environments for sensitive health data, business-critical data, and intellectual property. The platform provides flexible computation through HUNT Workbench for web-based data science access, alongside Sensitive AI services for GPU-accelerated machine learning. Add-on modules include Teaching Labs (free for educational use), Enterprise Labs for SMEs, Archive Lab for long-term storage, Data Storage with regular/speed-optimized/tape options, Data Transfer Services, Service Desk for predefined support requests, Documentation Portal, and the HUNT Cloud Community for user collaboration. The platform also supports Pre-processing Environments for data holders, health data access bodies, and data producers. HUNT Cloud was founded in 2013 and serves as a founding member of NORTRE, the Norwegian national infrastructure for sensitive data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HUNT Cloud Digital Labs Secure processing environments for sensitive data science, providing researchers and organizations with customizable digital labs for analyzing personal data, business-critical data, and intellectual property within an ISO-certified cloud infrastructure.
• HUNT Workbench Web-based interactive access to modern data science tools providing a regular desktop environment for scientists to analyze sensitive data with adjustable computational resources.
• Sensitive AI GPU-accelerated computing environments for sensitive AI, supporting fine-tuning, foundation modelling, and multi-modal analysis with up-to-date GPU cards, targeted at research organizations and scientists working with sensitive data.
• Teaching Labs Free teaching environments provided to courses that want to transfer the excitement of sensitive data analysis and open-source tools to the next generation of scientists.
• Enterprise Labs Enterprise program aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises that need a trustworthy framework when innovating over public data, with custom pricing arrangements.
• Archive Lab Secure storage solution for completed projects providing control over the data deletion process, with the first 1TB of storage free.
• Data Storage Scalable storage solutions including regular storage, speed-optimized storage, and tape-based storage for long-term preservation, with backup available by default.
• Data Transfer Services Internal and external transfer services compliant with health sector requirements such as the Norwegian Helsenorm, supporting secure data movement for researchers.
• Pre-processing Environments Compliance-focused environments for data holders, health data access bodies, and data producers, supporting quality assurance, long-term archiving, and large-scale data transfers to secure processing environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 80,000 blood samples and 68,000 DNA sequences available for research through HUNT study
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NORTRE (Norwegian National Infrastructure for Sensitive Data)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHUNT Cloud is a founding member of NORTRE alongside TSD at the University of Oslo and SAFE at the University of Bergen. NORTRE is co-funded by the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Health and Care Services. The infrastructure aims to enhance access to and knowledge from Norway's national health data resources.
• TSD (Tjenester for Sensitive Data) - University of OslocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in NORTRE Norwegian national infrastructure for sensitive data. Collaborates on providing national infrastructure for sensitive data research in Norway.
• SAFE - University of BergencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in NORTRE Norwegian national infrastructure for sensitive data. Collaborates on providing national infrastructure for sensitive data research in Norway.
• Norwegian Health Data Access Bodies (HDAB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates closely with the coordinating HDAB in Norway for both pre-processing and exports to secure processing environments. Part of European Health Data Space (EHDS) implementation.
• HUNT Study / Helseundersøkelsen i TrøndelagcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrown out of the HUNT study, one of the largest health studies in the world. HUNT has collected health data since 1984 with nearly 80,000 blood samples, 68,000 DNA sequences, and 120,000 consented participants.
• Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU Faculty of Medicine and Health SciencescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHUNT Cloud is affiliated with the Department of Public Health and Nursing at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at NTNU.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BC Platforms: Nordic-headquartered platform for healthcare and genomics data management, used for clinical and research data access. Comparable to HUNT Cloud's enterprise-grade sensitive data infrastructure, with similar EHDS-readiness positioning in the Nordics.
• DNAnexus: Commercial cloud platform for biomedical and genomic data analysis with strong compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001). The closest commercial analog to HUNT Cloud's Digital Labs for sensitive health data and omics research.
• TSD (Tjenester for Sensitive Data, University of Oslo): The University of Oslo's secure processing environment for sensitive research data, and the most direct peer as a co-founding member of NORTRE alongside HUNT Cloud. Operates the same ISO-certified, sovereign-cloud model for sensitive Norwegian health data.
• Aridhia: Provides a secure, managed clinical and biomedical data platform for research hospitals and life sciences. Closely comparable to HUNT Cloud's regulated digital labs for health data, with similar ISO-certified and governance-focused positioning.
• SAFE (University of Bergen): The University of Bergen's secure IT environment for sensitive research data, and the third NORTRE founding member. Directly comparable to HUNT Cloud as a Norwegian national infrastructure provider serving the sensitive health-data research community.
• Lifebit: Federated genomics and biomedical data analysis platform serving pharma, healthcare, and research customers. Comparable to HUNT Cloud's Sensitive AI and digital lab offerings for genomics and multi-modal health research.

Emerging players

• Seven Bridges (now Velsera): Cloud-based bioinformatics and multi-omics analysis platform for research and clinical customers. Comparable to HUNT Cloud's genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics workload support, though with a more commercial and global footprint.

Others

• NORTRE: The Norwegian national infrastructure for sensitive data that HUNT Cloud helped found. While not a direct competitor, NORTRE sets the joint governance, funding, and roadmap that HUNT Cloud must operate within alongside TSD and SAFE.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Azure Health Data Services: Hyperscaler offering HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant cloud for protected health information including FHIR, DICOM, and MedTech data. A broad incumbent that competes with HUNT Cloud for sensitive health data workloads, but lacks HUNT Cloud's EU-sovereign, EHDS-aligned positioning.

Regional players

• Sigma2 (UNINETT): Operates NRIS, the national e-infrastructure for Norwegian research including HPC and large-scale data storage. Comparable to HUNT Cloud's compute and storage layers for Norwegian academic workloads, but focused on general-purpose HPC rather than sensitive-data security.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@HUNTCloud
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/huntcloud

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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