GRAID Technology

About GRAID Technology

GRAID Technology, founded in 2020 by Leander Yu, is a storage technology company specializing in GPU-based RAID solutions for NVMe and NVMeoF storage. The company has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and a significant R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan. Yu and the founding team leveraged their extensive backgrounds in the Software-Defined Storage (SDS) industry, having previously developed an SDS company that was later acquired. This experience led them to recognize the performance bottlenecks of traditional RAID solutions in handling modern SSD capabilities, inspiring the creation of GRAID Technology.

The company's flagship product, SupremeRAID™, is a software and hardware solution that offloads RAID calculations from the server's CPU to a dedicated GPU. This innovative "out-of-path" architecture eliminates traditional RAID bottlenecks, allowing enterprises to achieve the full performance potential of NVMe SSDs without consuming valuable CPU cycles. The SupremeRAID™ product line includes several models tailored for different market segments, such as the SR-1010 for enterprise performance, the SR-1000 for mainstream enterprise use, and specialized editions for AI and HPC workloads. These products can manage up to 32 NVMe drives per card and deliver performance metrics reaching up to 28 million IOPS and 260GB/s throughput. The business model involves selling these SupremeRAID™ cards through partnerships with major OEMs like Dell and Supermicro, as well as a global network of distributors and channel partners. The company serves a wide range of clients in performance-intensive industries, including AI/ML, high-performance computing (HPC), financial services, and media production.

GRAID Technology has achieved significant milestones, including being named one of the "Ten Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021" by CRN and receiving a CES 2022 Innovation Award. The company's growth is supported by substantial venture capital funding, including a $15 million Series A round in 2022 and a $30 million Series B round in March 2025, led by a joint venture between Foxconn and CTBC. This funding is aimed at accelerating global expansion, product innovation, and strengthening market presence. Projecting revenues of $15 million for 2025, GRAID has also been recognized by NVIDIA as a “Strategic 50 Startup,” validating its pioneering approach to GPU-accelerated storage.