Stoa
Stoaexchange provides market pricing and a trading venue for AI hardware, turning fragmented GPU transactions into observable index levels and marks. The platform enables verified counterparties to buy and sell GPUs through a structured RFQ-to-settlement workflow, while Stoa Intelligence offers hardware valuation, fleet monitoring, and desk analysis for GPU-backed financing. Its pricing is captured at the point of trade, covering SKU, configuration, condition, and age.
- Commerce & Shopping
- Data & Analytics
- Financial Technology
- Software Only
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Raised to date
$500KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
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Product
Problem
GPU supply is scattered across OEM allocation, cloud capacity, brokers, operators, and secondary sellers, each exposing a different slice of the market. Buyers and sellers rely on private quotes, stale lists, and partial broker color to determine where hardware actually clears, while prices vary significantly based on SKU, delivery timing, region, quantity, condition, financing, and urgency.
Solution
Stoa Intelligence provides market pricing for AI hardware, turning activity captured at the point of trade into per-configuration index levels and marks that institutions can underwrite, finance, and report against. The platform values hardware by SKU, configuration, condition, and age, and tracks market levels showing where hardware has been trading and where it stands now. Users can monitor fleets and collateral pools, revaluing them as the market moves, while lenders, insurers, and data center operators access analysis for GPU-backed credit and valuation work. The service covers GPU-backed financing as the market forms, giving desks observable market evidence rather than arguments over hardware value.
Target Audience
Primary users are institutional participants in the AI hardware market, including GPU brokers and dealers, data center operators, AI labs and enterprises, cloud and neocloud providers, lenders and credit funds, insurers, and rating or diligence teams.
Features
- Hardware valuation by SKU, configuration, condition, and age with index levels by configuration
- Fleet and portfolio monitoring with automated revaluation as market levels move
- Trade lifecycle management from RFQ to settlement, with binding trades and recorded verification steps
- AI-assisted RFQ drafting from plain-language descriptions or quote PDF uploads
- Verified counterparty network across dealers, brokers, data center operators, and cloud providers
- Desk analysis capabilities for GPU-backed credit, residual value, depreciation, and recovery assumptions