Verse, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $54 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with NVIDIA also participating, to deploy AI data centres up to three years faster by bypassing grid interconnection bottlenecks.
The company uses on-site battery storage systems to power AI data centres without waiting for grid interconnection approvals, which currently take five to seven years at major hubs. Verse’s approach can get facilities online significantly sooner without compromising compute performance, addressing a critical bottleneck in AI infrastructure expansion.
NVIDIA’s involvement includes integrating Verse’s energy management software into its DSX AI Factory reference architecture, the blueprint NVIDIA publishes for gigascale AI data centres. This means Verse’s platform works alongside NVIDIA DSX deployments out of the box, though Verse CEO Seyed Madaeni described it as an integration investment rather than a formal partnership.
The funding round also saw participation from GV (Google Ventures), Norrsken VC, and existing investors. The AI data centre infrastructure space has seen intense investor interest, accounting for 78% of all built-environment venture capital deployed in 2025.
With an estimated $500 billion in annual revenue stuck in interconnection queues globally, Verse’s battery-bridging approach offers a way to unblock AI compute capacity without waiting for utility-scale grid upgrades. The company plans to use the new capital to scale its deployments and expand its engineering team.
Source: Tech Funding News
