Upscale AI

Upscale AI is a pure-play AI networking infrastructure company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded by industry veterans from Palo Alto Networks, Marvell, Cisco, and Google and led by CEO Barun Kar. The company builds a full-stack, open-standards AI fabric spanning silicon, systems, and software — its SkyHammer scale-up ASIC architecture and NVIDIA Spectrum-X/SONiC-based scale-out Ethernet systems connect accelerators, memory, and storage for large-scale AI training and inference. Backed by Mayfield among others (Premji Invest, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Temasek, Tiger Global), it has raised $500M total at a $2B valuation. The company publishes no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable interface surface beyond a Webflow-served llms.txt; it sells networking hardware and software evaluated by hyperscalers and neoclouds.

Upscale AI is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, AI Infrastructure, and Data Centers.

Upscale AI’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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11.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceNetworkingAI InfrastructureData CentersEthernetHardwareSONiCSanta Clara

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Upscale Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

PressReleases
PressReleases

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 Careers
Careers
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: upscale-ai
name: Upscale AI
description: Upscale AI is a pure-play AI networking infrastructure company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded
  by industry veterans from Palo Alto Networks, Marvell, Cisco, and Google and led by CEO Barun Kar. The company builds a
  full-stack, open-standards AI fabric spanning silicon, systems, and software — its SkyHammer scale-up ASIC architecture
  and NVIDIA Spectrum-X/SONiC-based scale-out Ethernet systems connect accelerators, memory, and storage for large-scale AI
  training and inference. Backed by Mayfield among others (Premji Invest, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Temasek, Tiger Global),
  it has raised $500M total at a $2B valuation. The company publishes no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable
  interface surface beyond a Webflow-served llms.txt; it sells networking hardware and software evaluated by hyperscalers
  and neoclouds.
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