Neysa, an AI infrastructure cloud platform in India, has completed a huge $1. 2 billion funding round that was led by private equity funds connected with Blackstone. This is one of the largest capital commitments in the Indian AI infrastructure sector and puts the firm on the track for rapid growth and increased compute capacity. The signing of the main agreements allow Blackstone and co, investors to supply up to $600 million of equity capital, with Neysa expecting to obtain $600 million of debt financing on the basis of this equity commitment, subject to documentation. The capital will be used to fast track the deployment of over 20, 000 GPUs in India, a drastic increase from its present installed base, thus allowing enterprises, government agencies, and startups to locally and inexpensively train, fine, tune, and deploy AI workloads, and in the meantime, will help develop Indias overall AI capability in line with the rising global demand for domestic compute infrastructure. The transaction sees the engagement of other equity investors such as Teachers Venture Growth, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Assets, and Nexus Venture Partners, and is a demonstration of Blackstone’s strategic focus of investing in critical AI infrastructure worldwide comprising data centres and specialised cloud platforms.
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“Amit Dixit, Head of Asia Private Equity at Blackstone, said: “Over the past two decades, we have been committed to building businesses that build India, and this investment brings that to life. It reinforces Blackstone’s focus on backing the essential ‘picks and shovels’ of AI globally, including in India, a key market for Blackstone.” Ganesh Mani, Senior Managing Director in Blackstone Private Equity, added: “Digital infrastructure is one of our highest conviction investment themes globally. This investment positions Neysa to play a meaningful role in advancing AI infrastructure in India and enables businesses and public institutions to deploy AI technologies more effectively as AI adoption accelerates. We believe Neysa has the best management team in this space and look forward to partnering with Sharad and team to scale the business and support India’s innovation.” Sharad Sanghi, Co-Founder and CEO of Neysa, said: “India’s AI ambition requires production grade infrastructure built and operated at scale. Neysa is focused on delivering the execution layer of sovereign compute, and AI research enablement and adoption in alignment with the goals of India AI Mission. We seek to provide performance certainty and data assurance, enabling enterprises, hyperscalers, and global AI labs to deploy and scale reliable AI infrastructure in India.” The investment coincides with the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and underscores intensified global engagement with India’s AI compute landscape, while further bolstering Neysa’s mission to establish India as a significant AI compute destination.
