Arkady Volozh

European AI infrastructure company Nebius nabs $700M from Nvidia, Accel, others

Fundraising /

Nebius, the publicly-traded European AI infrastructure company formerly known as Yandex N.V., has raised $700 million in financing to power its U.S. expansion. The financing included “dozens of very well known investors,” Nebius CEO Arkady Volozh (pictured above) told TechCrunch in a press briefing today. While all the names will be revealed when the paperwork […]

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The curious case of Nebius, the publicly traded AI infrastructure ‘startup’

Enterprise /

On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space. Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering where this company had come from, as there had been little in the way of the usual fanfare that surrounds most startups’ journey to

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From Yandex’s ashes comes Nebius, a ‘startup’ with plans to be a European AI compute leader

AI /

When is a startup not a startup? When it’s a public company with 1,300 employees and $2.5 billion in capital. If that failed to conjure so much as a smile, that’s because it’s not a joke — it’s very much the reality for Nebius, a fledgling AI infrastructure business that has emerged from the ashes

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