Upscale AI (Series A-1)
Funding Details
Awarder
SemiNews
Date Award
July 27, 2026
Vertical
AI Networking Infrastructure
Premoney Valuation
$1,810,000,000
Valuation
$2,000,000,000
Funding Amount
$190,000,000
Company Info
Traction
Upscale AI is actively engaged with multiple hyperscalers and leading neocloud infrastructure providers, with customer evaluations and deployments underway across scale-out and scale-up networking environments.
Founders
Rajiv Khemani, Barun Kar
Market
AI Networking
Location
Santa Clara, California, USA
Coinvestors
NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Seligman Ventures, Temasek, Maverick Silicon, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, StepStone Group, Tiger Global
Company Description

Upscale AI is a pure-play AI networking infrastructure company enabling heterogeneous compute through open-standard, full-stack, turnkey solutions. Its portfolio is purpose-built for ultra-low-latency networking, enabling breakthrough performance and scalability across AI training, inference, and generative AI deployments.

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