Upscale AI, Inc., a new high‑performance AI networking company today announced its launch with over $100 million in funding. The seed round was co-led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon and included participation from StepStone Group, Celesta Capital, Xora, Qualcomm Ventures, Cota Capital, MVP Ventures, and Stanford University. Upscale AI was incubated by Auradine, a rapidly growing infrastructure player in the blockchain and AI compute space. Upscale AI is launching a next‑generation AI suite of networking solutions that delivers high‑performance connectivity for specialized compute, accelerating AI democratization with open‑standard and full‑stack turnkey solutions.
Upscale AI is pioneering open-standard networking technology to drive faster innovation along with greater choice and flexibility across AI infrastructure. Upscale AI’s portfolio is built on SONiC, Ultra Accelerator Link (UAL), Ultra Ethernet (UE), Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), and other cutting-edge open source technologies and open standards. The Upscale AI team also actively participates in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), Ultra Accelerator Link (UAL), Open Compute Project (OCP), and SONiC Foundation to advance AI networking innovation. Upscale AI enables true bring-your-own-compute flexibility while defining the future of scalable, interoperable AI networking.
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AI’s exponential growth has outpaced general-purpose compute and traditional networks, opening up a $20+ billion AI networking market. Realizing AI’s potential requires a full-stack redesign: specialized xPU clusters, ultra-low latency interconnects, and secure and power-efficient infrastructure to connect massive heterogeneous compute deployments at unprecedented speed. Upscale AI aims to meet this demand by designing robust silicon, systems, and software for ultra-low latency networking, enabling breakthrough performance and scalability for AI training, inference, generative AI, edge computing, and cloud-scale deployments.
Upscale AI, founded by serial entrepreneurs Barun Kar (CEO) and Rajiv Khemani (Executive Chairman), boasts a world class founding team and over 100 influential technologists. Kar and Khemani bring a strong history of success, having co-founded and led ventures like Palo Alto Networks, Innovium, and Cavium (acquired by Marvell). The team’s extensive experience spans decades in silicon, systems, and software, with members hailing from leading infrastructure companies such as Marvell, Broadcom, Intel, Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Juniper Networks.
“From enterprise networking to building cloud infrastructure, Upscale AI’s team has been at the center of every major computing shift over the past 20 years,” said Barun Kar, CEO of Upscale AI. “Now, our world-class team is applying its depth and breadth of expertise to the next frontier: open AI-native infrastructure. Our deep expertise enables us to architect cohesive AI infrastructure solutions, partnering with leading xPU vendors and AI innovators to meet today’s demands and power what’s next.”
“We incubated Upscale AI with a bold vision to reimagine networking for the AI era anchored in openness, performance, and scale,” said Rajiv Khemani, Executive Chairman of Upscale AI and CEO of Auradine. “As AI transforms every industry, next-generation infrastructure must keep pace. Upscale AI’s world-class team is building the foundational layer that will enable AI to reach its full potential.”
Upscale AI is rapidly developing full stack AI networking infrastructure. The product suite will focus on xPU maximization and connectivity, and will include.
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