Rescale, a pioneer in digital engineering platforms, has announced a $115 million Series D funding round—bringing its total raised capital to over $260 million. The round includes strategic investments from tech and deep tech giants including NVIDIA, Foxconn, Hitachi Ventures, NEC, and Applied Ventures, alongside continued support from early backers like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel. At the intersection of high-performance computing (HPC), intelligent data, and applied AI, Rescale aims to redefine how engineers and scientists design, model, and simulate the world around them. With this latest round, Rescale is poised to accelerate its growth and enable innovation at unprecedented speed across aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, semiconductors, and beyond.
Breaking Through Innovation Bottlenecks
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, the demand for faster innovation cycles is pushing enterprises to rethink how they manage compute, data, and AI integration. Yet, three persistent challenges remain:
- Limited access to high-performance compute infrastructure
- Fragmented, siloed simulation data
- Complex, non-scalable AI workflows for science and engineering
Rescale CEO Joris Poort summed it up:
“Our future breakthroughs are limited not by imagination, but by the speed at which engineers and scientists can turn ideas into reality.
A Platform Built for the AI Engineering Era
Rescale’s platform is designed to unify the complex stack of modern R&D—bringing compute, data, and AI into a cohesive experience tailored for digital engineering workflows.
Features and Capabilities:
- Cloud-native high-performance computing across 500+ global data centers
- 1,250+ supported engineering and scientific applications
- Integration with leading infrastructure partners: AWS, Azure, NVIDIA, OCI, Intel, and Arm
- AI-native search, tagging, and digital thread capabilities for simulation data
- Automated, physics-informed design validation using AI, delivering up to 1,000x speed improvement
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, noted:
“With Rescale’s full-stack NVIDIA software and infrastructure, industries can push the boundaries of AI-driven modeling and simulation—advancing discovery, design, and engineering at an unprecedented pace.”
Scaling Innovation Across Industries
Rescale is trusted by some of the world’s most advanced organizations, including:
- Arm
- General Motors Motorsports
- Samsung
- SLB
- U.S. Department of Defense
These customers collectively spend over $1 billion annually on HPC to power cutting-edge initiatives such as:
- Molecular simulations for accelerated drug discovery
- Aerodynamic optimization in aircraft design
- Automotive crash testing using digital twins
- Advanced materials research in semiconductors
Dr. Om Nalamasu, CTO of Applied Materials, emphasized the impact:
“We’ve experienced firsthand how Rescale’s platform accelerates our AI physics simulation capabilities and catalyzes digital twin adoption.”
Roadmap: Scaling Digital Engineering with AI
Rescale plans to use its new funding to:
- Expand its library of applications and computing workflows
- Enhance data unification across simulation tools via AI-native tagging and automation
- Strengthen enterprise-grade security and compliance (particularly for government and defense)
- Democratize access to AI Physics tools for engineering teams
- Accelerate delivery of AI-powered modeling and simulation at scale
This funding fuels Rescale’s long-term ambition to help every organization tap into advanced computing and applied AI—transforming simulation and R&D from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.
Engineering a Faster Future with AI
Rescale’s latest investment round underscores the growing demand for intelligent engineering platforms that combine HPC, data unification, and AI-native workflows. As digital twins, simulation intelligence, and physics-informed AI reshape how innovation happens, Rescale is uniquely positioned to lead the next generation of engineering transformation.
