Nscale

Nscale is a London-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2024 as a spinoff of the crypto miner Arkon Energy, led by founder and CEO Josh Payne. It builds data center capacity, deploys GPUs and sells cloud services, with a backlog it puts at $103 billion, about 85% from a Microsoft supply agreement and a roughly […]
Salience Labs

Salience Labs is an Oxford company founded in 2021 that builds photonic switches for AI data centers, drawing on research from the University of Oxford and the University of Munster. Vaysh Kewada is CEO and Johannes Feldmann is CTO. It launched a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch in March 2026.SiliconANGLE reported on October 14, 2026 […]
