B3IQ targets university researchers with rent-to-own GPU machines

Startup B3IQ has found a new AI niche: Supplying rent-to-own machines to privacy-conscious university…

B3IQ offers rent-to-own GPUs (30% down, 5-year terms) to academics for predictable budgets and HIPAA compliance; in use at Stanford, NYU, Dartmouth. Niche addressing privacy/cost constraints overlooked by cloud providers; $50M 2026 revenue, $21M raised, Series A planned.