Inflect's answer
Inflect was founded in 2016 by Mike Nguyen, a serial entrepreneur who had already built Silent Partners before turning his attention to a gap hiding in plain sight: you could buy almost anything on the internet, but you could not buy the internet itself on the internet.
Finding and comparing digital infrastructure, colocation, bare metal, connectivity, DIA, was slow, opaque, and gated behind broker relationships and sales calls. Mike set out to change that by building a neutral marketplace where buyers could discover, compare, and connect with providers the same way modern buyers expect to shop for anything else.
The vision has always been bigger than a directory. Inflect is moving toward full transactability, a true marketplace where buyers can go from requirement to purchase without leaving the platform. Think of it as the Amazon of digital infrastructure.
The road has not always been smooth. Deals have fallen through, obstacles have come up, and the market has not always moved at the pace the team hoped. But Inflect has consistently come back stronger, growing its buyer and seller base, expanding its team, and building toward a platform that makes infrastructure procurement as straightforward as it should have always been.
Appdirect
Equinix
Digital Realty
CoreSite
Iron Mountain
Lightyear
Akamai
