Salad activates the latent resources of idle gaming PCs on the web’s most trusted "AFK-for-pay" marketplace. Our users (or “Chefs”) turn a wealth of dormant processing power into games, DLC, gift cards, subscriptions, and more. Every year, our users redeem over 50,000 digital and real-world items, and contribute thousands to charities across the globe.
More than 400 million gaming PCs sit inactive for 22 hours a day. With Salad, that’s 11 minutes of pay to every minute of play. With a quarter million users already earning, we’ve made substantial inroads into a mostly untapped global market.
Our community is powered by blockchain protocols and high-trust infrastructure to ensure our Chefs chop through any task—while remaining safely anonymized. Soon we’ll democratize financial access through SaladPay, a payment platform that takes Salad Balance web-wide. In five years’ time, “Pay with Your PC” will be ubiquitous.
In a world hungry for computational resources, every connected computer is vital. Our workload-agnostic infrastructure layer is ready-made to tackle our partners’ high-performance computing tasks. Whether the job’s P2P bandwidth sharing, AI inference training, applied edge computing—or anything else that takes hard crunching—it will be no match for our ever-ready kitchen.
More than 400 million gaming PCs sit inactive for 22 hours a day. With Salad, that’s 11 minutes of pay to every minute of play. With a quarter million users already earning, we’ve made substantial inroads into a mostly untapped global market.
Our community is powered by blockchain protocols and high-trust infrastructure to ensure our Chefs chop through any task—while remaining safely anonymized. Soon we’ll democratize financial access through SaladPay, a payment platform that takes Salad Balance web-wide. In five years’ time, “Pay with Your PC” will be ubiquitous.
In a world hungry for computational resources, every connected computer is vital. Our workload-agnostic infrastructure layer is ready-made to tackle our partners’ high-performance computing tasks. Whether the job’s P2P bandwidth sharing, AI inference training, applied edge computing—or anything else that takes hard crunching—it will be no match for our ever-ready kitchen.
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $17M
Founded date: 2018
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 13.09.2022 | Origin Ven... | originvent... |
| - | Left Lane ... | leftlane.c... |
| - | Left Lane ... | leftlaneca... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.03.2022 | Series A | $17M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.01.2026 | Salad.com Teams Up With Golem Network to Deliver GPU Processing on Decentralized Infra | Share Share Share Share Email Tech companies requiring access to GPU workloads have a new option at their disposal following Salad.com’s decision to partner with Web3 specialist Golem Network. The collaboration will bring Web2 workloads int... |
| 31.03.2025 | Salad Disrupts AI Transcription Market: Introduces API With Highest Accuracy And Lowest Cost | Salad Transcription API scores No.1 in accuracy benchmark No.1 accuracy, built for scale: Salad delivers enterprise-grade AI Batch Transcription with the industry’s best accuracy and at least 40% less cost than others. With this API, our go... |
| 12.02.2025 | The Rise of Decentralized AI: Presearch and Jitterbit Redefine User Experience | In the fast-paced world of technology, the emergence of decentralized AI is akin to a breath of fresh air. It promises autonomy, privacy, and a break from the chains of corporate control. Two companies leading this charge are Presearch and ... |
| 11.02.2025 | Decentralized Search Engine Presearch Launches Powerful New Privacy-Centric AI Chatbot PreGPT 2.0 | The innovative AI chatbot that delivers uncensored and unbiased insights without exploiting users is more powerful than ever, with updated models, more recent training data, and multi-language support Presearch, a hyper private, non-profili... |
| 21.02.2024 | NodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud | When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making the company money, after all. NodeShift aims to take this... |
| 12.04.2022 | Chopping Up Compute: Why We Invested in Salad Technologies, Inc. | |
| 25.03.2022 | Salad Raises $17M in Series A Funding | Salad, a Salt Lake City, CA-based compute-sharing network operator, raised $17M in Series A funding. The round was led by Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures with participation from Kickstart Seed Fund, Royal Street Ventures and Carthona ... |
| - | Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck Web3 gaming startup Salad used to raise $17 million to build a decentralized supercomputer for crypto | Bob Miles is the founder and CEO of Salad. Salad This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Salad is a network where gamers exchange idle computing power for rewards. It just raised ... |