Upscale AI (Series A)
Funding Details
Awarder
SemiNews
Date Award
January 21, 2026
Vertical
AI Networking
Funding Amount
$200,000,000
Company Info
Traction
Upscale AI is experiencing strong early traction for its solutions for hyperscalers and AI infrastructure operators pursuing scalable, open networking alternatives.
Organizations Involved
Tiger Global, Premji Invest, Xora Innovation, Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures
Market
AI Infrastructure
Location
Santa Clara, California, United States
Coinvestors
Tiger Global, Premji Invest, Xora Innovation, Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures
Company Description

Upscale AI is a high-performance AI networking company accelerating AI democratization through open-standard, full-stack, turnkey solutions. Its portfolio of silicon, systems, and software is purpose-built for ultra-low-latency networking, enabling breakthrough performance and scalability across AI training, inference, generative AI, edge computing, and cloud-scale deployments.

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