About OmniSync

We're Democratizing
AI Compute.

Founded in 2025, OmniSync is on a mission to break the cloud monopoly and make AI infrastructure accessible to every developer, researcher, and startup on earth — not just those who can afford AWS pricing.

12,847
Active GPU Nodes
63
Countries Covered
$2.1M
Seed Round Raised
1.3M+
AI Jobs Processed
Our Mission

Built for the Builders Who Can't Afford Big Cloud

In 2024, the cost to train a competitive AI model exceeded $1 million for most research teams. That's not a compute problem — it's a monopoly problem. Three companies control the GPU supply chain, set the prices, and decide who gets access.

OmniSync was born from a simple observation: millions of powerful GPUs sit idle every night in gaming rigs, workstations, and small data centers around the world. We built the infrastructure to connect that supply to the researchers and companies that desperately need it.

We believe the next breakthrough in AI shouldn't come from a hyperscaler's data center — it should come from a grad student in Istanbul running her model on OmniSync at 3am for $4.

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Radical Openness
Permissionless access for both providers and consumers. No whitelists, no enterprise contracts, no gatekeepers.
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Cryptographic Trust
Every computation is verified, not assumed. Trust is built into the protocol, not into relationships with vendors.
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Geographic Equity
AI should not be a privilege of Silicon Valley. OmniSync's economics work equally well in Lagos, Jakarta, and São Paulo.
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Speed Over Bureaucracy
We ship fast, iterate in public, and trust our community to tell us when we're wrong.
Our Story

From Frustration to Foundation

Q1
Early 2024
The Problem Becomes Personal
Alex Mercer, while at AWS, watches a promising AI startup abandon their product because a $140,000 training bill wiped out their seed funding. He starts writing notes on a decentralized alternative.
Q3
Mid 2024
Team Forms Around the Idea
Dr. Lena Kovacs (Google DeepMind) and Marcus Chen (Solana Labs) join. The core question: can you build cryptographic proof that a GPU actually ran a computation? After 4 months of research, the answer is yes.
Q1
Early 2025
Seed Round & Protocol Design
$2.1M seed round closed. Protocol architecture finalized. OmniSync Foundation incorporated. The whitepaper is published to overwhelmingly positive reception from the DePIN and AI research communities.
Q4
Late 2025
Public Testnet — Coming Soon
500 invited node operators. Real AI workloads. First benchmark results showing 94% cost reduction vs AWS. The waitlist grows to 4,000+ developers.
Leadership Team

The People Building It

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Alex Mercer
CEO & Co-Founder
10 years at AWS as Principal Engineer in distributed systems. Led the design of AWS Outposts edge compute infrastructure before founding OmniSync.
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Dr. Lena Kovacs
CTO & Co-Founder
Research scientist at Google DeepMind. PhD in Cryptography from ETH Zurich. Inventor of OmniSync's Proof of Computation algorithm.
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Marcus Chen
Chief Protocol Officer
Core contributor to the Solana Labs team and co-author of the Anchor smart contract framework. Expert in high-throughput blockchain settlement systems.
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Sarah O'Brien
VP Growth
Previously at Render Network where she led the growth team from 0 to 100,000 GPU providers. Specialist in two-sided marketplace dynamics.
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Ivan Petrov
Head of Security
Lead smart contract auditor at Trail of Bits for 6 years. Has audited over $4B in TVL across major DeFi and DePIN protocols.
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Yuki Tanaka
Head of Partnerships
8 years at Microsoft Azure in enterprise business development across Asia-Pacific. Brings deep relationships with data center operators and AI labs.
Backed By

Our Investors

OmniSync is backed by leading DePIN and AI-focused venture capital firms who believe decentralized compute infrastructure is a defining technology of the next decade.

⚡ Multicoin Capital
⚡ Solana Ventures
Variant Fund
Delphi Digital
Robot Ventures
Spartan Group