European cloud provider Lyceum today announced its €10.3 million pre-seed investment led by redalpine, with participation from 10x Founders.
Lyceum is building sovereign infrastructure for AI. Headquartered in Berlin and Zurich, Lyceum operates data centres in Europe and offers a software platform that abstracts away infrastructure complexity, making it radically easier to run and scale demanding workloads.
In a world where innovation depends on immense processing power, Lyceum removes the complexity of traditional high-performance computing.
The company wants to give everyone the ability to run code in the cloud at lightning speed, by developing one-click GPU deployment, automated hardware selection, upfront pricing and price-elastic scheduling. By enforcing EU data-residency, security-by-design and transparent energy sourcing, Lyceum empowers startups, enterprises and public bodies to run AI training, large-scale simulations and data-intensive workloads without relying on extra-territorial cloud monopolies.
With a focus on sustainability, transparency, and European digital sovereignty, Lyceum serves startups, research institutions, and enterprises across the continent.
Magnus Grünewald, co-founder and CEO of Lyceum, shared:
“At Lyceum, our vision is to build the first user-centric GPU cloud, making compute accessible to everyone. Europe is lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of compute capacity, and we‘ll do whatever it takes to change that.”
According to Sebastian Becker, General Partner at redalpine:
“Lyceum is building the sovereign European answer to AI compute. We’re deeply impressed by the team’s bold vision, relentless ambition, and exceptional speed of execution.”
According to Jan Becker, Partner at 10x, Lyceum is building what Europe urgently needs: secure, sovereign infrastructure for the AI age:
“A young, ambitious team with deep technical insight and remarkable velocity, they’re operating in one of the most strategically vital markets of our time.
As compute becomes the defining commodity of the 21st century, Lyceum is positioned to become a cornerstone of Europe’s digital future.”
The fresh capital will expand engineering and commercial teams to accelerate development of the most user-centric GPU cloud on the market and deliver new features at pace.
It will also fund the rollout of fully EU-sovereign compute zones — purpose-built, renewable-powered data centre clusters that anchor the Lyceum platform in Denmark, France, and beyond
Finally, the round enables the startup to broaden strategic alliances with semiconductor makers and other hardware partners, laying the cornerstones of a truly European compute infrastructure and a strong foundation for Lyceum’s long-term expansion.
Lead image: Magnus Grünewald and Maximilian Niroomand of Lyceum. Photo: uncredited.
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