Nscale

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Nscale is a UK-based AI-native hyperscaler and full-stack AI infrastructure platform. It combines data centers, energy, GPU compute, networking, storage, orchestration software, and managed AI services for enterprise and government workloads.

Primary product

Vertically integrated AI cloud and infrastructure: GPU compute, training/fine-tuning, inference APIs, AI Studio, managed Slurm, networking, storage, data-center capacity, and related AI services.

Founded

2024

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Team size

Approximately 500–600 (company/profile estimate; LinkedIn-derived third-party data, 2026)

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI infrastructure, cloud computing, data centers, GPU cloud, high-performance computing

Offices

London, United Kingdom

Wokingham, United Kingdom

Seattle, United States

Bellevue, United States

Houston, United States

New York, United States

San Francisco, United States

Narvik, Norway

Glomfjord, Norway

Singapore

Business model

GPU cloud consumption

Enterprise and government AI infrastructure contracts

Managed AI services

Data-center capacity and colocation

Infrastructure partnerships and joint ventures

Funding

Stage

Series C / late-stage private

Total raised

$3.7B

Latest round

Series C (including pre-Series C SAFE) · Mar 2026

Latest amount

$2B

Series C

Mar 2026 · Aker ASA and 8090 Industries

$2B

Delayed draw term loan

Feb 2026 · PIMCO, Blue Owl, and LuminArx Capital Management

$1.4B

Pre-Series C SAFE

Oct 2025

$433M

Series B

Sep 2025 · Aker ASA

$1.1B

Venture / initial financing

Dec 2024

$155M

People & investors

Leadership

Josh Payne

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Alice Takhtajan

Chief Financial Officer

Nidhi Chappell

President, AI Infrastructure

Sam Huckaby

President, Data Centers

Philippe Sachs

President, EMEA

Jing Yin

President, APAC

David Power

Chief Technology Officer

Tom Burke

Chief Revenue Officer

Daniel Bathurst

Chief Product Officer

Phoebee Gahan

Chief Legal Officer

Naeem Hatimi

Chief People Officer

Daniel Shapiro

Chief Power Officer

Sagar Rawal

Chief Infrastructure Officer

Latha Maripuri

Chief Information Security Officer

Sam Sturgess

SVP, Strategy & Corporate Development

Investors

8090 Industries

Aker ASA

Astra Capital Management

Blue Owl

Citadel

Dell Technologies

Fidelity Management & Research Company

LuminArx Capital Management

Work & culture

Public careers materials emphasize relentless innovation, openness and transparency, sustainability, ownership and accountability, customer focus, and fast collaborative execution. Specific benefits are not publicly substantiated in the reviewed sources.

Compensation

No reliable public compensation bands were identified in the reviewed sources.

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed in a standard rate card; appears to combine usage-based GPU/cloud services with enterprise contracts, managed services, and bespoke infrastructure agreements.

Differentiators

—Vertical integration from energy and data centers through GPUs, networking, software, and AI services
—Large-scale NVIDIA GPU deployment and AI-factory positioning
—European/sovereign AI infrastructure footprint
—Renewable-energy and low-cost-power strategy, including Norway hydroelectric sites
—Full-stack offering spanning raw compute through orchestration, fine-tuning, inference, and platform services

Technology

NVIDIA GPUs

GPU clusters

Kubernetes

Slurm

Apache Kafka

MySQL

Memcached

Helm

Grafana

Splunk

CrowdStrike

NVMe

GitLab

Next.js

OpenAPI

Mintlify

Optical networking

Customers

OpenAI

Microsoft

Enterprise AI developers

Government and sovereign-AI customers

Competitors

CoreWeave

Nebius

Lambda

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

AWS

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Signals & risks

Other

Mar 2026

The company is pursuing very rapid, capital-intensive expansion and reportedly considering an IPO as early as 2026; this creates execution, financing, and infrastructure-delivery risk.

Source

Acquisition

Jul 2026

Nscale announced a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale, subject to transaction completion; the deal would add a software platform for running AI workloads at scale.

Source

Latest news

Nscale enters agreement to acquire Anyscale

Nscale LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Nscale announced a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale, extending its full-stack offering from infrastructure to AI workload execution and deployment.

AI data center firm Nscale raises $1.1bn from backers including Aker, Nokia, and Nvidia

Data Center Dynamics · Jul 2026

Details the Series B, the company’s pivot from cryptomining infrastructure, UK and Norway expansion, Microsoft/OpenAI relationships, and Nokia partnership.

Nscale Raises $2 Billion in Series C — the Largest in European History

Nscale · Mar 2026

Nscale announced a $2 billion Series C at a $14.6 billion valuation, led by Aker and 8090 Industries, and announced new board directors plus full integration of the Aker joint venture.

AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6 billion valuation

CNBC · Mar 2026

Coverage of the Series C, prior financing, Microsoft and OpenAI partnerships, and possible IPO plans.

Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this Stargate Norway startup hits $14.6B valuation

TechCrunch · Mar 2026

Reports on the valuation, new board appointments, vertical-integration strategy, and Stargate Norway.

Jobs and careers at Nscale

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