Shachar Fienblit

Cofounder, Vast Data

Search every verified Shachar Fienblit interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shachar Fienblit, cofounder of Vast Data, discussed the company’s recent $30 billion valuation funding round and its data platform in a June 2026 interview with TheMarker. He described Vast Data’s work as breaking trade-offs between speed, price, scale, and ease of use, framing GPUs as the engine and data as the fuel for AI. He noted that the platform aims to deliver relevant data to GPUs for training and inference, and he mentioned that Vast Data has grown revenue threefold in recent years while maintaining a lean hiring approach. He also compared new AI-focused clouds to “solar networks” in Africa, suggesting they can leapfrog legacy clouds like AWS or GCP by building with newer technologies. In a February 2026 conversation with CoreWeave, Fienblit highlighted the partnership between the two companies, describing shared engineering DNA and a focus on operational efficiency and customer needs. He said customers increasingly view data as a key asset and that the industry is moving from experimentation to production-ready AI, with attention to security. He also stated that Vast Data’s object storage delivers up to 7 gigabytes per second per GPU throughput and that the company earned a platinum award from iCloud for the second consecutive year. Fienblit emphasized the challenge of scaling with a lean mindset while empowering employees to act quickly.