Startup profile for NXAI: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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NXAI funding, valuation and investors

Austrian frontier AI and industrial modeling company developing Sepp Hochreiter's xLSTM sequence architectures.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

Stage not recorded · Linz, Austria

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-11-13

Overview

NXAI GmbH was established in Austria in February 2024 by AI researcher Sepp Hochreiter, Netural X and PIERER Digital Holding. The founding legal advisers reported PIERER Digital Holding and Netural X each owned 37%, with Hochreiter owning 26%. NXAI commercializes xLSTM recurrent memory research, including models for time-series forecasting, industrial control and future world models.

Founding equity allocations are known, but no reliable standalone cash round amount or valuation was confirmed for VCT backfill.

Why NXAI is interesting

A credible research-led alternative to transformer sequence models with a documented founding ownership structure. A published cash financing round could not be reliably verified and should not be invented.

Product & use cases

xLSTM sequence architecture, TiRex time-series foundation models and efficient recurrent-model research for industrial systems.

  • Industrial time-series forecasting and anomaly detection
  • Efficient recurrent models for edge and embedded AI
  • State tracking and robotics/world-model research

Key facts

  • Founded February 2024 by Sepp Hochreiter, Netural X and PIERER Digital Holding
  • Founding ownership: Netural X 37%, PIERER Digital 37%, Hochreiter 26%
  • No verified cash funding round recorded; company formation is not equivalent to a seed raise

Competitive landscape

Edge: Pioneer of LSTM technology and a research portfolio of modern recurrent xLSTM variants with published scientific benchmarks.

Research legitimacy is supported by published models and papers, but the February 2024 company formation was an equity joint venture, not a verifiable venture financing amount. Claims about funding totals need primary confirmation before an investment event can be created.

Market / IPO context

Editorial / static context — not a live quote.

FAQs about NXAI

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The founding advisers publicly reported 37% PIERER Digital Holding, 37% Netural X and 26% Sepp Hochreiter as of the February 2024 founding; this is not necessarily its current cap table.
No primary-source cash fundraising amount was independently verified. VCT does not infer a round amount from the founding joint-venture share split.
A modernized recurrent memory architecture designed to compete with transformer sequence modeling in text, time series and other domains.

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