Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTOpeyemi BabalolaSun, September 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM GMT+2 4 min readStartups spend years courting brand-name investors to build credibility before they go public. Rarely does one of those investors also happen to be the company's biggest supplier, and in a roundabout way, one of its own paying customers.Nscale, a two-year-old British AI cloud computing firm, is negotiating to raise up to $3.5 billion ahead of a planned U.S. stock listing, according to Bloomberg.Nvidia (NVDA) is expected to supply about $2 billion of that financing, with hedge fund Third Point leading a separate tranche of convertible notes and Goldman Sachs running the process.The arrangement would make Nscale's chip supplier one of its largest shareholders just weeks before the company asks public investors to back a valuation roughly double its last private round.Related: Nvidia stock flashes unusual signal for investors Nvidia's money comes with a built-in customerNscale has ordered about