{"id":992463,"date":"2026-02-16T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992463"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:03:27","slug":"blackstone-to-back-neo-cloud-infrastructure-startup-neysa-with-1-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/blackstone-to-back-neo-cloud-infrastructure-startup-neysa-with-1-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone to back neo-cloud infrastructure startup Neysa with $1.2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackstone-affiliated private equity funds and co-investors have entered into definitive agreements to invest $1.2 billion in Neysa, the artificial intelligence cloud platform founded by Netmagic\u2019s Sharad Sanghi, in what marks one of the largest private capital commitments in India\u2019s AI infrastructure sector. <\/p>\n<p>The deal is structured as $600 million in equity \u2014 led by Blackstone with participation from Teachers\u2019 Venture Growth, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Assets, and Nexus Venture Partners \u2014 and an additional $600 million in debt financing that Neysa intends to secure on the back of the equity commitment, subject to documentation, the company said. The capital is expected to  fund the deployment of over 20,000 GPUs across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackstone-affiliated private equity funds and co-investors have entered into definitive agreements to invest $1.2 billion in Neysa, the artificial intelligence cloud platform founded by Netmagic\u2019s Sharad Sanghi, in what marks one of the largest private capital commitments in India\u2019s AI infrastructure sector. The deal is structured as $600 million in equity \u2014 led by Blackstone with participation from Teachers\u2019 Venture Growth, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Assets, and Nexus Venture Partners \u2014 and an additional $600 million in debt financing that Neysa intends to secure on the back of the equity commitment, subject to documentation, the company said. The capital is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}