As AI adoption accelerates worldwide, organizations are seeking more efficient ways to deploy large language models without relying exclusively on hyperscale data centers. Reducing infrastructure costs, improving energy efficiency, and enabling sovereign AI deployments have become key priorities for enterprises, governments, and infrastructure providers investing in next-generation AI.
Multiverse Computing has announced a $570 million Series C funding round at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation, marking one of the largest funding rounds in the efficient AI sector. The investment will support the expansion of the company's AI compression technology, CompactifAI, accelerate global growth, and strengthen its sovereign AI infrastructure capabilities.
The Series C round was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International, BNPP Solar Impulse Venture Fund (BNPP SIVF), and Bullhound Capital, with participation from investors including Santander Alternative Investments, Tikehau Capital, HP Inc., Orange Ventures, Scania Invest, National Bank of Canada's NAventures, Qatar Development Bank, Zouk Capital, SETT, EIC Fund, the Basque Government's Hazten Scale-Up Fund, and Kutxa Fundazioa.
Advised by J.P. Morgan and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, the financing is expected to bring Multiverse Computing's total funding to approximately $800 million, with the round remaining open to select strategic investors.
At the center of Multiverse Computing's platform is CompactifAI, an AI model compression technology that applies tensor networks, a mathematical framework originating from quantum physics, to reduce the size of large language models.
Developed under the leadership of Dr. Román Orús, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, the technology compresses LLMs by 80% to 95% while maintaining comparable performance.
The result enables AI models to operate more efficiently across smartphones, enterprise infrastructure, on-premises environments, factory floors, and sovereign data centers while reducing GPU requirements and energy consumption.
"The AI industry has accepted a false constraint for years — that powerful models require expensive infrastructure," said Enrique Lizaso, Co-founder and CEO of Multiverse Computing. "That constraint is gone. We have proven that AI can run at full performance on a smartphone, inside a sovereign data center, on a factory floor with no cloud connection. This round is the moment we scale that proof across every industry that needs it."
Multiverse's platform also includes the CompactifAI Router, which determines whether AI workloads should execute locally or in the cloud based on performance, efficiency, and deployment requirements.
The company is extending its platform with software for AI factories and sovereign AI data centers, combining model compression, GPU orchestration, AI services, and governance into a unified operating environment.
"The AI industry has built an extraordinary capability on top of an infrastructure model that wasn’t designed to sustain it. The winners in the next phase of this multi-trillion-dollar market will be the ones that make every data center, every GPU, and every enterprise deployment dramatically more efficient. Multiverse sits at the intersection of the infrastructure and the application layers and has evolved from being the leading downstream LLM compression technology to becoming a complete AI foundry and Operating System. It is the only company we've seen that has both the technical foundation and the commercial traction to be that critical platform," said Damien Henault, Managing Director and Partner at Forgepoint Capital International.
"Beyond delivering substantial cost savings for its clients, Multiverse’s solutions achieve a structural reduction in the energy intensity of LLM workloads through advanced model-compression techniques. This translates into lower GPU utilization, reduced energy consumption, and decreased infrastructure requirements, all while preserving comparable performance and accuracy levels. BNP Paribas SIVF is delighted to back Multiverse, whose transformative technology promises a significant step forward for the sustainable use of resources in AI model inference," said Yann Lagalaye, Managing Partner at BNPP Solar Impulse Venture Fund.
Since completing its Series B financing in June 2025, Multiverse Computing has increased its annualized revenue by more than 10x while recording 96x year-over-year sales growth during Q1 2026.
Its AI models are already deployed across millions of devices, including drones, satellites, cameras, vehicles, telecom infrastructure, and future AI PCs.
The company serves customers across manufacturing, finance, energy, aerospace, cybersecurity, defense, healthcare, and life sciences, including Allianz, Bank of Canada, Bosch, Iberdrola, Indra, PwC, and Telefónica.
The new funding will support continued AI research, expansion of CompactifAI models, investments in sovereign AI infrastructure, and regional growth across East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Canada, and the United States.
Multiverse Computing is the global leader in sovereign and efficient AI. The company’s deep expertise in quantum software led to the development of CompactifAI, a revolutionary compressor that reduces computing requirements and unleashes new use cases for AI across industries. Headquartered in Donostia, Spain, with offices in the United States, Canada, and across Europe, Multiverse serves more than 100 global customers, including Iberdrola, Bosch, and the Bank of Canada. For more information, visit multiversecomputing.com.
Forgepoint Capital is a leading venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future. With the largest sector focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of more than 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and its global Advisory Council of more than 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs advancing innovation globally. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and London with a presence in Madrid and Paris, Forgepoint is proud to help category-defining companies reach their market potential. For more information, visit forgepointcap.com and follow Forgepoint on LinkedIn.
The Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), a state-owned enterprise under the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, is a public entity dedicated to financing and promoting advanced and transformative technologies.
SETT’s investment is made through the Next Tech fund, aimed at encouraging private investment and improving access to financing in strategic Spanish sectors linked to digital transformation. The implementation of the Next Tech fund, part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, is among SETT’s responsibilities. Additionally, SETT manages two other financial instruments to boost the tech business ecosystem: PERTE Chip, dedicated to microelectronics and semiconductors, and Spain Audiovisual Hub, which promotes the digitalization of the audiovisual sector.
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