GreenButton was founded as InterGrid in 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand, to provide small-scale customers access to job processors.

[2] The company helped software vendors use cloud computing, offering a service called GreenButton in July 2010.

[7] GreenButton partnered with the Pixar Animation Studios and Microsoft's cloud computing platform Windows Azure, on a rendering service for RenderMan image-generating software announced in January 2012.

[11] In June 2012, GreenButton announced a partnership with the GNS Science of New Zealand and American based Stillwater Group for cloud computing during seismic processing.

[6][12] In 2012 GreenButton entered into a partnership with Numerix, an American company that develops software for risk analysis of financial derivatives.