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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><i xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives leads oversubscribed round with strategic participation from AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus as organizations look to turn </i><i xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">AI silicon into business outcomes</i></b>

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Spectro Cloud, a leading provider of AI infrastructure management software, today announced it has raised more than $100 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with strategic participation from AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus. The new funding brings Spectro Cloud’s total capital raised to $260 million and will accelerate the company’s mission to help enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds build and operate production AI infrastructure with greater control over cost, security and governance.

</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="news-body-cta">This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260715551858/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260715551858/en/</a></p><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="bwbodyimg" style="width: 480px; float:left; padding-left:0px; padding-right:20px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px;"><img xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20260715551858/en/2852471/4/Spectro_Cloud_Series_D.jpg" alt="Spectro Cloud raises $100 million Series D funding round to accelerate global adoption of production AI infrastructure. Learn more at spectrocloud.com."></img><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" style="font-size:85%;">Spectro Cloud raises $100 million Series D funding round to accelerate global adoption of production AI infrastructure. Learn more at spectrocloud.com.</p></div><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Organizations are spending billions on AI silicon and compute capacity. But silicon alone does not create AI outcomes. It takes software to turn raw compute into governed, production-ready AI infrastructure — and that software stack is complex to deploy, secure, govern and operate at scale. As inference becomes a core production workload at scale, teams must control cost, improve utilization, enforce governance and preserve flexibility across distributed environments.

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Spectro Cloud is built for this moment. Its PaletteAI platform gives platform teams and cloud providers a single operating model to build, govern, operate and scale AI infrastructure — from GPU clusters and AI factories to distributed inference. The platform combines full-stack lifecycle management with portability across environments, multi-silicon support and multi-model flexibility, helping customers get to production faster without locking into a single vendor, stack or operating model.

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"Silicon is the starting point for AI infrastructure, but software is what turns that infrastructure into business outcomes," said Tenry Fu, CEO and co-founder of Spectro Cloud. "No two customers are starting from the same place — some are modernizing legacy infrastructure, some are scaling edge or Kubernetes operations, and others are building AI factories, sovereign clouds or neocloud services. Spectro Cloud gives them one consistent platform to manage that complexity, preserve choice across silicon and models, and adopt AI faster without losing control."

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"Infrastructure is becoming one of the largest bottlenecks to production AI adoption," said Mike Reilly, a Managing Director from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. "Spectro Cloud impresses with its ability to help customers deploy AI across heterogeneous infrastructure while maintaining the flexibility, governance and operational control that complex organizations require. As AI moves into production at scale, a consistent management platform will be essential for scaling these workloads."

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Funding to Accelerate Product, Go-to-Market and Ecosystem Expansion</b>

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The Series D funding will help Spectro Cloud accelerate three strategic priorities:

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Product:</b> Expand PaletteAI capabilities that help customers get more value from AI infrastructure by improving utilization, controlling token costs and governing AI environments at scale.

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Go to market: </b>Expand adoption across enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds, with additional focus on Europe, the Middle East and APJ/APAC, where cloud providers are racing to bring AI services to market faster and move up the stack.

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Ecosystem:</b> Deepen partnerships across the AI infrastructure stack, building on Spectro Cloud’s momentum with silicon, hardware, systems integrator and distribution partners.

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AMD’s strategic investment underscores a market shift: as inference workloads scale, AI infrastructure must be operated as a production platform, not a collection of isolated compute resources. Customers need a consistent way to operate AI infrastructure while preserving flexibility across silicon and models.

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"As AI moves into production, inference is becoming one of the most important drivers of infrastructure demand," said Patrick Rundell of AMD Ventures. "Spectro Cloud’s platform approach addresses a critical challenge for enterprises deploying production inference workloads at scale, and we&#39;re pleased to support the company&#39;s next phase of growth."

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Building on Existing Enterprise Momentum</b>

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The Series D funding builds on Spectro Cloud’s traction across infrastructure modernization, edge operations and AI infrastructure. Customers such as T-Mobile, Airbus and the U.S. Air Force use Spectro Cloud to manage mission-critical infrastructure across enterprise and public sector environments. Spectro Cloud is also helping customers modernize legacy infrastructure, including VM migration initiatives involving tens of thousands of virtual machines.

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Spectro Cloud is also seeing momentum in distributed edge operations, where customers across restaurants, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas, and defense are deploying infrastructure across large physical footprints. Customers such as Yum! Brands use Spectro Cloud to support digital experiences today and AI-enabled operations over time.

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That foundation is now extending into AI infrastructure. PaletteAI, launched in October 2025, is gaining traction with enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds. For neocloud and sovereign cloud providers, Spectro Cloud helps accelerate time to market for AI services and move up the stack from infrastructure capacity to higher-value AI offerings. Spectro Cloud’s AI infrastructure momentum is further supported by an NVIDIA-validated architecture for AI factory deployments and participation in the NVIDIA IGX and Jetson ecosystems.

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For more information, visit spectrocloud.com.

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Spectro Cloud</b>

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Spectro Cloud helps platform teams and cloud providers modernize and manage infrastructure for the AI era without adding more tools or operational complexity.

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With PaletteAI, enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds can build, govern and operate full-stack environments across VMs, Kubernetes, edge, regulated and air-gapped locations, and AI infrastructure. PaletteAI Launchpads help teams start quickly with urgent outcomes such as VMware migration, token cost control or edge modernization, then scale into enterprise-wide lifecycle management, governance and fleet operations on the same platform.

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<b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives</b>

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Spectro Cloud Raises $100 Million Series D to Help Customers Move AI Infrastructure Into Production Across Enterprise, Public Sector, Neocloud and Sovereign Cloud Environments

Goldman Sachs Leads Oversubscribed Spectro Cloud Series D for AI Infrastructure

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    <p>Goldman Sachs Alternatives led an oversubscribed Series D for Spectro Cloud, with AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus among the strategic participants. The funding backs PaletteAI, Spectro Cloud’s platform to govern AI infrastructure across multi-silicon and multi-cloud environments, addressing cost, security, and governance as AI moves into production. This investment signals GS’s ongoing focus on AI infrastructure software in growth equity and could yield long-term upside if Spectro Cloud scales.</p>
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    <ul><li>GS-led oversubscribed Spectro Cloud Series D; AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Ventures, Maximus participate.</li><li>Total raised now $260M; round accelerates AI infra software adoption.</li><li>PaletteAI targets multi-silicon, multi-cloud environments for scalable governance.</li><li>Customers include T-Mobile, Airbus, and U.S. Air Force.</li><li>GS comment emphasizes AI production bottlenecks and platform value.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li><strong>Spectro Cloud (Private)</strong>: Private AI infra software provider; Series D oversubscribed led by GS Alternatives.</li><li><strong>Goldman Sachs Alternatives (GS)</strong>: Lead investor; signals continued private-market exposure to AI infrastructure software.</li><li><strong>Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)</strong>: Strategic participant; underscores production-inference workload demand.</li><li><strong>Ericsson (ERIC)</strong>: Strategic participant; role in scaling enterprise AI infrastructure deployments.</li><li><strong>Maximus (MMS)</strong>: Strategic investor; expands GS-driven ecosystem into public-sector/government services.</li></ul>
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    <p>Industry News: private-capital funding round for a growth-stage AI infra software company, with GS and other tech strategics emphasizing AI production-scale adoption.</p>
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    <ul><li>GS-led round signals growing private-market demand for AI infra software.</li><li>AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Ventures, Maximus participate, underscoring strategic value.</li><li>PaletteAI enables governance across silicon and clouds for production AI workloads.</li><li>Spectro Cloud&#039;s customers (T-Mobile, Airbus, U.S. Air Force) validate growth runway.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li>Oversubscribed Series D &gt;$100M led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.</li><li>Total capital raised to date: $260M.</li><li>PaletteAI launched in October 2025.</li><li>Strategic investors include AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, Maximus.</li><li>GS commentary highlights AI production bottlenecks and the need for a production-planning platform.</li></ul>
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    <p>Longer-term positive optionality for GS via private-market exposure; watch for exits or follow-ons in 12–24 months.</p>
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  <p><strong>Spectro Cloud, a leading provider of AI infrastructure management software, today announced it has raised more than $100 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (GS), with strategic participation from AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus. The new funding brings Spectro Cloud’s total capital raised to $260 million and will accelerate the company’s mission to help enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds build and operate production AI infrastructure with greater control over cost, security and governance.</strong></p>

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    <h2>Investment Details and Investor Syndicate</h2>
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      <li><strong>Oversubscribed Series D</strong> led by Growth Equity at <em>Goldman Sachs Alternatives</em> (GS), with strategic participation from AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus.</li>
      <li>Total capital raised to date: <strong>$260 million</strong>.</li>
      <li>Purpose: accelerate product development, go-to-market efforts and ecosystem expansion for Spectro Cloud’s PaletteAI platform.</li>
      <li>Key focus areas include expanding adoption across enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds.</li>
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    <h2>Platform Strategy and Market Context</h2>
    <p>Organizations are spending billions on AI silicon and compute capacity. But silicon alone does not create AI outcomes. It takes software to turn raw compute into governed, production-ready AI infrastructure — and that software stack is complex to deploy, secure, govern and operate at scale. As inference becomes a core production workload at scale, teams must control cost, improve utilization, enforce governance and preserve flexibility across distributed environments.</p>
    <p>Spectro Cloud is built for this moment. Its PaletteAI platform gives platform teams and cloud providers a single operating model to build, govern, operate and scale AI infrastructure — from GPU clusters and AI factories to distributed inference. The platform combines full-stack lifecycle management with portability across environments, multi-silicon support and multi-model flexibility, helping customers get to production faster without locking into a single vendor, stack or operating model.</p>
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    <h2>Executive Perspectives on the Investment</h2>
    <p>“Silicon is the starting point for AI infrastructure, but software is what turns that infrastructure into business outcomes,” said Tenry Fu, CEO and co-founder of Spectro Cloud. “No two customers are starting from the same place — some are modernizing legacy infrastructure, some are scaling edge or Kubernetes operations, and others are building AI factories, sovereign clouds or neocloud services. Spectro Cloud gives them one consistent platform to manage that complexity, preserve choice across silicon and models, and adopt AI faster without losing control.”</p>

    <p>“Infrastructure is becoming one of the largest bottlenecks to production AI adoption,” said Mike Reilly, a Managing Director from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. “Spectro Cloud impresses with its ability to help customers deploy AI across heterogeneous infrastructure while maintaining the flexibility, governance and operational control that complex organizations require. As AI moves into production at scale, a consistent management platform will be essential for scaling these workloads.”</p>

    <p>“<em>As AI moves into production, inference is becoming one of the most important drivers of infrastructure demand</em>,” said Patrick Rundell of AMD Ventures. “Spectro Cloud’s platform approach addresses a critical challenge for enterprises deploying production inference workloads at scale, and we&#39;re pleased to support the company&#39;s next phase of growth.”</p>
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    <h2>Funding Allocation: Product, Go-to-Market and Ecosystem</h2>
    <p><strong>Funding to Accelerate Product, Go-to-Market and Ecosystem Expansion</strong></p>
    <p>The Series D funding will help Spectro Cloud accelerate three strategic priorities:</p>

    <p><strong>Product:</strong> Expand PaletteAI capabilities that help customers get more value from AI infrastructure by improving utilization, controlling token costs and governing AI environments at scale.</p>

    <p><strong>Go to market:</strong> Expand adoption across enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds, with additional focus on <em>Europe, the Middle East and APJ/APAC</em>, where cloud providers are racing to bring AI services to market faster and move up the stack.</p>

    <p><strong>Ecosystem:</strong> Deepen partnerships across the AI infrastructure stack, building on Spectro Cloud’s momentum with silicon, hardware, systems integrator and distribution partners.</p>

    <p>AMD’s strategic investment underscores a market shift: as inference workloads scale, AI infrastructure must be operated as a production platform, not a collection of isolated compute resources. Customers need a consistent way to operate AI infrastructure while preserving flexibility across silicon and models.</p>

    <p>“<em>As AI moves into production, inference is becoming one of the most important drivers of infrastructure demand</em>,” said Patrick Rundell of AMD Ventures. “Spectro Cloud’s platform approach addresses a critical challenge for enterprises deploying production inference workloads at scale, and we&#39;re pleased to support the company&#39;s next phase of growth.”</p>
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    <h2>Momentum and Customer Traction</h2>
    <p>The Series D funding builds on Spectro Cloud’s traction across infrastructure modernization, edge operations and AI infrastructure. Customers such as <strong>T-Mobile</strong>, <strong>Airbus</strong> and the <strong>U.S. Air Force</strong> use Spectro Cloud to manage mission-critical infrastructure across enterprise and public sector environments. Spectro Cloud is also helping customers modernize legacy infrastructure, including VM migration initiatives involving tens of thousands of virtual machines.</p>

    <p>Spectro Cloud is also seeing momentum in distributed edge operations, where customers across restaurants, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas, and defense are deploying infrastructure across large physical footprints. Customers such as Yum! Brands use Spectro Cloud to support digital experiences today and AI-enabled operations over time.</p>

    <p>That foundation is now extending into AI infrastructure. PaletteAI, launched in October 2025, is gaining traction with enterprises, public sector organizations, neoclouds and sovereign clouds. For neocloud and sovereign cloud providers, Spectro Cloud helps accelerate time to market for AI services and move up the stack from infrastructure capacity to higher-value AI offerings. Spectro Cloud’s AI infrastructure momentum is further supported by an NVIDIA-validated architecture for AI factory deployments and participation in the NVIDIA IGX and Jetson ecosystems.</p>
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    <h2>About Spectro Cloud and How to Learn More</h2>
    <p>For more information, visit spectrocl... </p>
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Goldman Sachs Alternatives led an oversubscribed Series D for Spectro Cloud, with AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures, and Maximus among the strategic participants. The funding backs PaletteAI, Spectro Cloud’s platform to govern AI infrastructure across multi-silicon and multi-cloud environments, addressing cost, security, and governance as AI moves into production. This investment signals GS’s ongoing focus on AI infrastructure software in growth equity and could yield long-term upside if Spectro Cloud scales.

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Spectro Cloud Raises $100 Million Series D to Help Customers Move AI Infrastructure Into Production Across Enterprise, Public Sector, Neocloud and Sovereign Cloud Environments

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