Upscale AI, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) networking infrastructure company, announced Wednesday a $200 million Series A financing led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Temasek-backed Xora Innovation.

Upscale AI said in a statement that the funding also saw participation from Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures.

This new investment brings the firm’s total funding received to over $300 million.

With an additional $200 million in new financing, Upscale AI will be delivering the first full-stack, turnkey platform spanning silicon, systems, and software built to interconnect the heterogeneous future of AGI.

The company will use the funding to rapidly expand its engineering, sales, and operations teams as it moves into commercial deployment.

It is noted that the firm is experiencing strong early traction for its solutions for hyperscalers and AI infrastructure operators pursuing scalable, open networking alternatives.

Upscale AI’s networking solutions are also slated to ship this year.

“This investment accelerates our mission to fundamentally re-architect networking for the AI era,

“With a world-class team and strong customer pull, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the open AI networking platform the industry has been waiting for,” said Barun Kar, Chief Executive Officer of Upscale AI.

Rajiv Khemani, Executive Chairman of Upscale AI, said Upscale AI has built extraordinary momentum in an exceptionally short time.

He added the market is demanding open, scalable AI networking solutions, and Upscale AI is uniquely positioned to help customers break through today’s networking constraints.

It is noted that Upscale AI unifies GPUs, AI accelerators, memory, storage, and networking into a single, synchronized AI engine.

As a core element of Upscale’s AI strategy, the purpose-built SkyHammer™scale-up solution enables the unified rack by collapsing the distance between accelerators, memory, and storage, transforming the entire stack into one cohesive, synchronized system.

Upscale’s AI platform is built on and actively advances open standards and open source technologies, including ESUN, Ultra Accelerator Link (UAL), Ultra Ethernet (UEC), SONiC, and the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI).

The company is an active participant in the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Open Compute Project, and SONiC Foundation.

“AI workloads are outpacing the capabilities of traditional networks,

“Upscale AI is rebuilding the entire stack from the ground up and leading the effort to democratize AI networking infrastructure at scale,” said Phil Inagaki, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Xora Innovation.

Meanwhile, Rohit Iragavarapu, Partner at Tiger Global, said AI is fundamentally reshaping infrastructure, and networking is at the center of that transformation.

“Upscale AI combines deep technical execution with strong industry relationships to build the next generation of AI networking,” he added.

Sandesh Patnam, Managing Partner at Premji Invest, also said as AI systems scale, interconnect efficiency has become a defining driver of performance and economics — not just raw compute.

“What stands out about Upscale AI is not only their purpose-built approach to scale-up networking silicon, but the depth of experience of a team that has successfully built and deployed this class of infrastructure before,

“Their ability to deliver proprietary-grade performance while embracing open standards reflects both strong technical conviction and real-world operating insight,” he added.

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