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doubleAI: Capital Raising
doubleAI, a Tel Aviv-based AI infrastructure startup, closed a $220M funding round with Nvidia among investors (alongside Lightspeed and Bessemer). About half the capital is already deployed to secure roughly 1,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs for its Maxwell 'code execution model', which optimises software performance on GPUs/CPUs and charges a share of compute savings.
Source: Forkast News
- What happened
- doubleAI, a Tel Aviv-based AI infrastructure startup, closed a $220M funding round with Nvidia among investors (alongside Lightspeed and Bessemer). About half the capital is already deployed to secure roughly 1,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs for its Maxwell 'code execution model', which optimises software performance on GPUs/CPUs and charges a share of compute savings.
- Who
- doubleAI · Israel
- When
- 2026-10-20
- Source
- Forkast News
- So what
- Fresh capital is a hiring signal before it is anything else.
The leadership read
Fresh capital is a hiring signal before it is anything else. For doubleAI, a raise in the sector funds leadership depth, scale, go-to-market and operational rigour, rather than any single appointment. Watch where doubleAI hires first across EMEA; that is where the capital is really pointed.
Market context: Backdrop: a 122.7 (Hot) Talent Market Index (up 17.8 on the month) with EMEA activity easing (-17.7pts).
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AI capability is being built into executive stacks, not bolted on beneath them.
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