Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260721/i17.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260721/p17#a260721p17" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lily Mae Lazarus / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/">Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica can explain what his latest startup does to a kindergartner on the fly.</p>