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August 13, 2026

Inside Multiverse Computing, the Spanish startup vying to be Europe's next AI champion

HQ’d in Donostia in northern Spain, Multiverse Computing has grown into one of Spain’s most high-profile tech companies. How did it get here?


Multiverse Computing's founding team

Last month, Spanish scaleup Multiverse Computing, which has built a technology to reduce the compute requirements of large AI models, announced it is nearing the close of a €500m Series C.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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