NextSilicon Valuation, Funding & Investors

Inspur Cloud is a Jinan-headquartered provider launched in 2010 that supplies datacenter infrastructure and cloud services globally. Its offerings encompass servers, storage systems, artificial intelligence platforms, high-performance computing solutions, and software outsourcing for government and enterprise clients.

Xsight Labs is a Tel Aviv-headquartered developer of chiplet-based processors for data center workloads including AI training and inference. The company designs scalable compute architectures using advanced packaging to boost performance per watt in cloud environments. Its Orion platform targets hyperscale data centers with disaggregated cores for machine learning acceleration. Founded in 2021, Xsight Labs partners with TSMC for fabrication and focuses on rack-scale systems deployable by 2025.

Northern Data AG is a Business-to-Business technology company developing, using, and selling solutions on vertically integrated computing infrastructure. Its segment includes Peak Mining; Taiga Cloud and Ardent Data Centers. Geographically, it operates in Europe (excluding Germany), North America, and Germany. The company derives maximum revenue from Europe.

Tensordyne (formerly Recogni) is a systems company that designs high-performance, low-power AI inference systems for data centers. Its multimodal generative AI inference systems combine compute, memory, and interconnect to run large AI models with 16-bit precision at the computational cost of 4-bit, allowing enterprises and data centers to deploy AI models with lower total cost of ownership.

Core Scientific Inc is engaged in designing, building and operating digital infrastructure for high-performance computing. The business operates in three operating segments; Digital Asset Self-Mining, consisting of performing digital asset mining for the own account, Digital Asset Hosted Mining, consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for digital asset mining, and HPC Hosting, consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for graphics processing unit (GPU) based HPC hosting operations. The majority of revenue is derived from the Digital Asset Self-Mining Segment.

D-Wave Quantum Inc is in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services, and it is the commercial supplier of quantum computers and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. It delivers customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. Its annealing quantum computers are accessible through the company's LeapTM cloud service.

Exascale Labs Holdings Inc is an AI infrastructure provider operating a software-defined GPU compute platform and related AI infrastructure solutions. Its core business includes GPU-as-a-Service (GaaS), through which it provides reserved and on-demand access to GPU compute capacity sourced from third-party data centers, as well as GPU cluster management and optimization services for AI data center (AIDC) operators.

POET Technologies Inc is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products, and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and hyperscale data centers. Its integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. POET’s Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing, and sensing applications. The company operates geographically in the United States, Canada, Singapore and China.

Whitefiber Inc is a provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure solutions. The company owns high-performance computing data centers and provide cloud-based HPC graphics processing units services, which it terms cloud services, for customers such as AI application and machine learning developers. Its Tier-3 data centers provide hosting and colocation services. Its cloud services support generative AI workstreams, especially training and inference. It has two reportable segments: cloud services and colocation services. The cloud services segment generates revenue from providing high performance computing services to support generative AI workstreams. Colocation services generate revenue by providing customers with physical space, power and cooling within the data center facility.

Corvex Inc is an AI cloud computing company specializing in GPU accelerated infrastructure for AI workloads. The company provides AI-focused computing infrastructure that offers scalable computational resources. Its platform uses GPU-accelerated compute clusters and high-throughput storage to support performance, security, and efficiency at scale. The company's product portfolio includes GPU Clusters, Inference-as-a-Service, Confidential Computing, and GPU Node.

Firmus Technologies is an Austin-headquartered provider of AI data center infrastructure known as AI Factories, optimizing GPU clusters for maximum token generation throughput and profitability. Featuring liquid cooling across racks, power management, and AI FactoryOS operating system, it supports H100 and H200 GPUs with 99.99 percent uptime. Firmus' SMC cloud platform leverages SHARP networking for hyperscalers training large language models at scale.

Nscale is an AI infrastructure company and global hyperscaler that builds, owns, and operates data centers and high-density GPU clusters. The neocloud startup integrates everything from renewable power generation to hardware and orchestration software to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for enterprises and governments. Unlike traditional cloud providers, Nscale builds and operates its own data centers in regions with abundant, low-cost renewable energy (e.g., hydropower in Norway, renewables in Texas). In West Virginia, the company even owns behind-the-meter natural gas power plants to insulate operations from local grid fluctuations.

Super Micro Computer Inc provides high-performance server technology services to cloud computing, data centers, high-performance computing, and the Internet of Things embedded markets. Its solutions include servers, storage systems, modular blade servers, workstations, full-rack scale solutions, networking devices, server sub-systems, and server management. These turn-key solutions are designed, developed, validated, and installed for AI datacenters. The company has one operating segment that develops and provides high-performance server solutions based upon a, modular and open-standard architecture. More than half of the firm's revenue is generated in the United States, with the rest coming from Europe, Asia, and other regions.

Crusoe Energy Systems is a Denver-headquartered AI infrastructure provider that designs and operates data centers powered by renewable and waste energy sources. The company converts flared natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal into electricity for GPU clusters. Crusoe Cloud delivers Infrastructure as a Service with NVIDIA H100 and other GPUs for AI workloads. Founded in 2018, it maintains facilities in Texas, North Dakota, and Wyoming.

Nord Quantique is a Sherbrooke-based quantum computing company developing second-generation processors using bosonic codes for error correction. The firm targets fault-tolerant systems for applications in cryptography, optimization, and simulation. Its technology integrates superconducting circuits and photonic interfaces, with prototypes tested in Canadian research labs.

Enflame is a designer of AI training chips for cloud data centers under the Suiyuan Technology brand. Headquartered in Beijing, China, the company produces high-performance accelerators like the ET series supporting TensorFlow and PyTorch frameworks. Deployments power training workloads for Baidu and Tencent hyperscale clusters with architectures optimized for transformer models.

XLMEC is the brand of Chongqing Xinlian Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fabless designer of automotive-grade integrated circuits headquartered in Chongqing. It develops power management chips, sensor interfaces, and MCUs for electric vehicles and ADAS systems via xlmec.com. Certified to IATF 16949 standards, the company supplies tier-1 automakers in China's new energy vehicle sector.

Innovusion, also known as Seyond, develops high-performance, image-grade LiDAR sensor systems for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems. Founded in 2016 with core teams in Sunnyvale, California and Suzhou, China, the company designs long-range LiDAR aimed at level 4 and 5 autonomous driving, emphasizing range, resolution, sensor fusion, compact size, and cost-effectiveness. It supplies automakers including Chinese electric-vehicle maker Nio, selling sensors at roughly $1,000 per unit as a lower-cost alternative to competitors such as Velodyne and Luminar.