AI cloud firm Nscale seeks US$3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing
The company is seeking to sell as much as US$1.5 billion of convertible notes to a group of investors
AI-focused cloud computing firm Nscale is seeking to raise up to US$3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing, according to sources familiar with the matter. The London-based company is in talks with numerous investors to sell up to US$1.5 billion in convertible notes, which could be supplemented by an additional US$2 billion from Nvidia, a key player in the AI infrastructure market.
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point is set to lead the investment in the convertible notes. Goldman Sachs Group is handling the fundraising efforts. The company plans to disclose that its contracts are valued at approximately US$103 billion, following a US$45 billion agreement to provide computing power to Anthropic. Nscale estimates it could generate annual revenue of around US$18.1 billion and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation of about US$13.6 billion.
The company is currently in discussions about the size and investors, with no final decisions having been made. Nscale is developing AI infrastructure campuses in Norway and West Virginia, and has contracts with Nvidia for about 194,000 Vera Rubin GPUs. The company is also providing computing capacity to robotics startup Figure and recently acquired software startup Anyscale for US$1.65 billion.
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