Nexthop AI

Nexthop AI designs and develops customized networking hardware, network operating systems and interconnects purpose-built for hyperscalers and neo-clouds running AI workloads. Its scope spans silicon to systems to cloud: customized networking hardware built to handle massive AI workload demands, hardened network operating systems developed alongside that hardware, and pre-tested optical and electrical interconnects designed to integrate into customers' optimised cloud stacks. The work is carried out as an extension of customers' engineering teams.

The company operates through a Joint Development Manufacturer (JDM) model, which is described as enabling cloud companies to build the most cost- and power-efficient AI solutions at unprecedented scale. Its technical domains include AI infrastructure, hyperscale networking, optical and electrical interconnects and cloud stack integration.

Nexthop AI was founded by Anshul Sadana, a former Arista Networks executive, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Battery Ventures. The company maintains additional locations in the Bay Area, Seattle, Vancouver, Dublin and Bengaluru, and describes its team as seasoned industry experts working in a collaborative, inclusive environment where employees directly participate in the company's success.