Some startups go after market share. Others? They go after the very infrastructure the internet runs on, and decide it’s time for a reckoning. NexQloud isn’t whispering about disruption from the sidelines. They just walked into the room, dropped 1,850 NanoServers like chess pieces, and told the hyperscalers to check their carbon footprint and their margins.
Founded in March 2024 and already closing a $2.3M pre-seed under Regulation CF, NexQloud is letting the crowd fuel a revolution the cloud incumbents would rather you didn’t notice. What Amazon does with a city block and a billion-dollar power bill, NexQloud does with a globally distributed swarm of energy-efficient edge machines, 12% the juice, 88% the savings. That’s not optimization, that’s flipping the gravitational center of cloud economics on its head.
Credit where it’s due, this isn’t hype, it’s precision. Mauro Terrinoni, a serial entrepreneur and ex-investment banker who speaks fluent cloud and capital, leads as Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Thomas, the Chairman and fintech heavyweight, brings battle-tested expertise in automation and decentralized systems. Add Antione McBay to the mix, crypto execution savant and community impact leader, and you’ve got a trifecta with teeth.
So what’s the product? A decentralized compute platform (DCP) with a Distributed Kubernetes Service (DKS) that lets anyone, AI shops, SaaS builders, DevOps teams, run containerized workloads using pooled global resources. Think 54,820 vCPUs, 158.83 TB RAM, 849 AI-ready GPUs, and an NXQ token economy designed to actually reward contribution, not just promise it. The throughput? Equivalent to 70 enterprise server racks, supporting up to 750,000 concurrent users. All while dodging 2,895 metric tons of CO₂ emissions a year. That’s the environmental flex and the scalability statement.
Their proprietary Layer 1 blockchain runs on Delegated Proof of Stake with patent-pending AI redundancy and global scheduling baked in. Full encryption. Zero trust. Compliance on the FedRAMP horizon. And with Docker and Kubernetes integrations already in play, this isn’t some ideologically pure science project. It’s enterprise-ready, built for performance, and dangerous to legacy players who still think “cloud-native” is cutting-edge.
The market? Cloud compute is racing toward a trillion-dollar valuation by 2027. NexQloud is placing a long bet on the under-served, those fed up with Big Cloud’s pricing, opacity, and environmental toll. This is a moonshot, yes, but one built with method, math, and a team who knows that edge compute isn’t a buzzword, it’s the new center.
