Multiverse Computing

📂 Hardware & Deep Tech📂 Artificial Intelligence📍 Barcellona🗓️ Founded: 2019

We enable organizations to deploy safe and production-ready artificial intelligence with tailored solutions, reducing processing costs while maintaining full control over cloud, data center, and edge environments.

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About Multiverse Computing

Artificial intelligence has an infrastructure problem. The most powerful models require enormous computational resources, prohibitive energy costs, and dependence on cloud infrastructures that do not always meet the security and data sovereignty requirements of sectors such as finance, defence, and life sciences. Multiverse Computing, based in Naples, addresses this problem from an unexpected direction: making AI models more efficient, rather than making infrastructures more powerful. The company's proposition is built on advanced model compression and optimisation techniques that enable production-quality artificial intelligence to run on existing infrastructures — private clouds, corporate data centres, edge environments — without sacrificing performance. The result is a significant reduction in computational costs and greater architectural flexibility for organisations that cannot or choose not to depend on the major hyperscalers. The name Multiverse Computing evokes the company's origins in quantum computing, a field in which the team has developed deep expertise. Those capabilities now translate into a model compression approach that draws on mathematically derived quantum techniques to achieve results that traditional methods struggle to match. Target customers are organisations with stringent requirements around security, compliance, and infrastructure control: banks and financial institutions that must keep data in certified environments, energy and manufacturing companies operating on legacy systems, and life sciences research teams managing sensitive data. For these customers, the ability to run AI without ceding infrastructure control is not a nice-to-have — it is a prerequisite. In a context where technological sovereignty has become a political as well as a technical issue, Multiverse Computing positions itself as an enabler of AI that respects the real constraints of organisations, not just the ambitions of benchmark tables.

The Story

Investors Our Company Founded in 2019, we recognized the potential of quantum technology to revolutionize artificial intelligence and optimization solutions. This vision led to the creation of Singularity, our advanced platform designed to empower customers. Scientific missions and innovation program of the year 2021.

How Multiverse Computing works

Business Model

B2B software, licensing and enterprise projects for AI compression, deployment and optimisation.

Revenue Model

Software licences, enterprise services and strategic agreements with device manufacturers and infrastructure operators.

Products & Services

Key Products

  • CompactifAI — LLM compression up to 95% via tensor-network technology
  • Singularity — quantum-inspired optimization platform
  • CompactifAI App — offline AI on edge and mobile devices
  • HyperNova 60B — proprietary open-source model on HuggingFace

Core Use Cases

  • Compressione di modelli AI
  • AI on-device
  • AI sovrana
  • Ottimizzazione di data center
  • Deployment enterprise on-premise

Market & Clients

Key Customers

It targets large companies, data centers, device manufacturers, and R&D teams in the finance, energy, manufacturing, life sciences, and defense sectors that need to run efficient and secure AI models on existing infrastructures.

Geographic Presence

ITDEFRESGB

How Multiverse Computing competes

Competitors

NVIDIA TensorRTHugging Face OptimumOctoAI

Competitive Advantages

  • Ability to customize the offering based on customer needs.
  • Presence of a network or community that strengthens distribution.
  • Declared technological differentiation in the product.

How Multiverse Computing grows

Growth Strategy

Expand its efficient-model library, invest in sovereign AI factories and grow across Asia, the Middle East and North America.

Distribution Model

Direct enterprise sales, strategic partnerships and integrations with device manufacturers and infrastructure operators.

Moat (Defensibility)

Proprietary algorithms, tensor-network expertise, enterprise integrations and relationships with device and infrastructure operators.

Regulatory Context

Deployments are subject to the AI Act, sector-specific rules and national requirements covering data, cybersecurity and sovereign infrastructure.

Key Risks

  • Not all technical claims are independently verified
  • Rapid change in compression techniques
  • Dependence on enterprise partnerships
  • Announced round remains open up to its target

Strategic Insights

  • Compression may become an infrastructure layer between models and hardware.
  • Sovereignty and energy efficiency are converging in one commercial proposition.

Funding & Investors

Total Funding

800000000

Latest Valuation

1500000000 (2026)

Funding Rounds

  • 2025 - Series B: 28
  • - Grant: $20 m
  • 2025 - Series B: $219M
  • 2026 - Series C: Up to €500M
    Lead: Forgepoint Capital International, BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture Fund, Bullhound Capital

Key Investors

Forgepoint Capital InternationalBNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture FundBullhound CapitalSantander Alternative InvestmentsTikehau CapitalHP Inc.Orange VenturesEIC FundScania InvestNAventuresQatar Development BankZouk CapitalSETTHazten Scale-Up FundKutxa Fundazioa

Founding Team

Founders

Enrique LizasoCo-founder e CEO
Román OrúsCo-founder e Chief Scientific Officer

Key Metrics

Series C targetUp to €500M (2026)
Pre-money valuation€1.5B (2026)
Customers100+ (2026)

Lessons from Multiverse Computing

  • Deep scientific expertise can be repositioned into a broader market.
  • Performance claims require independent benchmarks and verifiable deployments.

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