Hedgehog

Hedgehog builds AI network infrastructure for companies running high-performance computing at scale. Its work centres on the Hedgehog Platform, an open source network automation platform that combines the SONiC network operating system with intelligent automation. The platform is designed to let cloud teams operate GPU fabrics without specialised network engineers and to deliver cloud-like experiences for edge compute and distributed cloud infrastructure.

The company's technical scope covers network automation, GPU fabrics, Kubernetes, congestion management and lossless data transport, alongside edge computing and distributed cloud infrastructure. Its work is aimed at AI and machine learning workloads, including training, fine-tuning and inference, as well as high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure more broadly.

Hedgehog is headquartered in Seattle and operates on open source principles, advocating freedom from vendor lock-in and the flexibility to use commodity hardware. The company describes itself as born from the conviction that networking should work like the cloud, with a focus on practical problems such as congestion management, lossless data transport and operational complexity. It collaborates closely with customers on these problems.