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Sharon AI, a leading Australian Neocloud provider of high-performance GPU compute infrastructure, has secured up to US$200 million in equity and revenue-share investment from Digital Alpha, alongside a strategic technology partnership with Cisco, to accelerate enterprise AI and HPC expansion across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
SharonAI Holdings Inc. (SHAZ:OTC Markets, SHAZW:OTC Markets) and its subsidiaries announced a significant strategic investment and technology partnership. Digital Alpha, a digital infrastructure investment firm with an exclusive collaboration with Cisco, is providing up to US$200 million in equity and revenue-share funding. This capital will fuel substantial expansion of Sharon AI's AI and high-performance cloud compute infrastructure.
The investment supports growing customer demand for NVIDIA accelerated computing combined with Cisco networking solutions, targeting research institutions, government entities, and enterprises throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
“Sharon AI represents the next generation of cloud infrastructure providers delivering AI workloads and high-performance compute to enterprise and public sector customers,” said Rick Shrotri, Managing Partner at Digital Alpha. “We are excited to partner with the Sharon AI team to scale the Company across the Australia and Asia-Pacific region.”
Sharon AI operates an enterprise-grade high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure platform purpose-built for demanding AI workloads. This includes large language model training, fine-tuning, and real-time inference. The proprietary Sharon AI Cloud orchestration and automation platform simplifies deployment and management of high-performance GPU resources for complex, large-scale workloads.
“This partnership with Digital Alpha and Cisco enables us to further accelerate customer deployments and expand our cloud infrastructure for enterprise AI and high-performance compute in Australia and Asia Pacific,” said James Manning, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sharon AI.
The three-way collaboration integrates Cisco’s UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric switching, security, and observability technologies into Sharon AI’s infrastructure. This creates a sovereign, high-performance environment tailored for Australian businesses and regional customers.
"Sharon AI is poised to lead the Australian enterprise AI space, delivering critical use cases like inference and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Powered by Cisco’s UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric switching, security, and observability stack, Sharon AI provides a sovereign, high-performance infrastructure for Australian businesses,” said Will Eatherton, SVP, Head of Networking Engineering, Cisco. “Cisco is thrilled to partner with Sharon AI to bring these advanced AI platforms to market.”
The partnership supports accelerated AI infrastructure rollouts, full-stack integration of compute, network, and storage, and addresses the needs of diverse customers in research, enterprise, and government sectors.
This investment and collaboration align with Digital Alpha’s strategy of backing next-generation AI infrastructure platforms, drawing on its Cisco relationship and experience with portfolio companies such as Massed Compute, PacketFabric, and Cloudian.
About SHARON AI
SharonAI Holdings Inc. (“Sharon AI”) and its subsidiaries (SHAZ:OTC Markets, SHAZW:OTC Markets), a leading Australian Neocloud, is a High-Performance Computing company focused on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud GPU Compute Infrastructure. Our cloud GPU platform and compute infrastructure is accelerating the build of AI factories and sovereign AI solutions, powering the next wave of accelerated computing adoption.
About Digital Alpha
Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure, partnering with industry leaders to scale digital platforms that enable the next generation of connectivity, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions. Digital Alpha has a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco System, Inc. and works closely with other leading technology firms to accelerate the deployment of digital infrastructure.
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