Vultr
Verified“American cloud, EU rooms for rent.”
- EU/UK data-center regions
- 9
- Valuation
- $3.5B
- Ownership
- Private
- Founded
- 2014
17 = midpoint of Control 14 & Data 20
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 13 sourced facts across 11 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 4 open questions hold confidence at 86% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
16
Operated by The Constant Company, LLC, a US limited liability company. Terms of Service are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, US federal law and the laws of New Jersey; disputes resolved in Palm Beach County, Florida. No EU incorporation and no EU legal anchor for the operating entity — EU law reaches only the local service relationship, not the parent. Scored low per rubric (incorporated and run outside the EU).
Why 16? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Governing law of the customer agreement
Vultr Terms of Service (Sec. 24) · as of 2026-06-12
Registered business address
OpenGovUS / SAM entity record · as of 2026-06-12
Control & Ownership
12
Privately held US company; equity self-funded by founder David Aninowsky for ~a decade. December 2024 growth financing of $333M from LuminArx Capital Management and AMD Ventures (US investors) set a $3.5B valuation; debt facilities from Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Sachs. Voting control and economic majority are US-based; no EU ownership or EU listing venue. Scored low per rubric (foreign control).
Why 12? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Founder / controlling figure
Constant — About Us · as of 2026-06-12
2024 growth financing and valuation
DatacenterDynamics · as of 2024-12-18
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
26
33 cloud data-center regions worldwide, nine in Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw, Madrid, Milan). Vultr advertises data-residency that keeps data in the chosen region and offers sovereign clouds on request — better than a US-region-only host. But the controlling operator is a US company, facilities are colocation (Equinix, Digital Realty, Interxion), transfers rely on SCCs, and there is CLOUD Act exposure. EU racks under foreign control, not EU-owned sovereign infra.
Why 26? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
European data-center regions
Businesswire / Vultr · as of 2026-05-19
Data residency / sovereignty offering
Vultr Blog — Data Residency · as of 2026-06-12
US transfer mechanism
Vultr EEA/GDPR Privacy Notice · as of 2026-06-12
Facilities model
Console Connect (Vultr partner post) · as of 2026-06-12
Operations & People
12
Headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida; entire named leadership team (Aninowsky, Kardwell, Gucker, Quon, Cochrane, etc.) is US-based; workforce roughly 250-340 people centered in the US; financials and valuation reported in USD. No EU operational center of gravity. Scored low per rubric (foreign-centered).
Why 12? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Leadership
Constant — About Us · as of 2026-06-12
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
4 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
Exact incorporation state of The Constant Company, LLC (New Jersey law governs the TOS and the company's roots/area code are NJ, but the formal LLC registration state is unconfirmed).
Does not change the US-jurisdiction conclusion, but affects the precise legal characterization.
- ?
Whether LuminArx/AMD Ventures hold preferred equity with voting/board rights or purely economic stakes.
Could shift ownership nuance, though all parties are US so the EU-control conclusion is unchanged.
- ?
Whether Vultr has appointed an Article 27 GDPR EU representative (none named in its EEA privacy notice).
Relevant to EU enforceability and accountability for EU data subjects.
- ?
Degree of control/ownership Vultr has over its EU racks vs. pure colocation lease terms.
Affects how 'sovereign' the data-residency offering really is in practice.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
SEAL targets cloud/hosting providers directly, so the mapping is unusually apt here — but this is an analogous assessment, not a certification or audit.
Strategic
US-controlled provider; strategic direction set from Florida with US (incl. AMD-linked) capital. No EU strategic anchor.
Legal & jurisdictional
US LLC; agreement under New Jersey law, venue Florida. Parent outside EU reach; CLOUD Act exposure.
Data & AI
Real EU data-center regions with opt-in data residency and sovereign-cloud-on-request; offset by US-operator transfers under SCCs.
Operational
HQ and leadership US-based; workforce US-centered; USD reporting.
Supply chain
EU presence via colocation (Equinix, Digital Realty, Interxion); compute heavily reliant on US silicon (AMD, Nvidia).
Technological
Stack and roadmap (AI/GPU clouds) US-controlled; deep AMD partnership and investor relationship.
Security & compliance
States GDPR/HIPAA readiness, SCCs, DPA on request, region-locking; no named Art. 27 EU representative found.
Environmental sustainability
No EU-specific sustainability or energy-sourcing data verified in this pass.
EU alternatives
French-owned (Iliad group) cloud with EU data centers; closest like-for-like sovereign alternative to Vultr's compute/bare-metal offering.
German privately held provider with cloud, dedicated and bare-metal servers in DE/FI; strong price-competitive EU-sovereign option.
EU-listed (Euronext Paris), founder-controlled French operator that owns its data centers — high sovereignty on infrastructure and control.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
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- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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