Scalvy, the Austin-based distributed power delivery company co-founded by Egyptian engineer Mohamed Badawy and Sudanese engineer Amr Ibrahem, has raised $13.9 million in an oversubscribed Series A round co-led by a strategic investor and Amman and New York-based Silicon Badia, with participation from Azolla Ventures, Climate Capital and SkyRiver Ventures.
The round brings total capital raised to approximately $17 million and will fund certification, field testing and deployment of Scalvy's platform across AI data centres, energy storage and electric mobility, alongside team expansion to meet what the company describes as accelerating customer demand.
Scalvy's patented Power Neuron platform distributes power conversion and control across compact, software-coordinated modules with built-in energy storage, deployed directly at energy load points rather than through centralised architectures. The approach allows systems to scale to megawatt-level power with greater efficiency and a smaller physical footprint, without requiring customers to redesign their existing infrastructure. The company recently demonstrated 98.3% inverter efficiency and up to 15% longer battery pack life in EV applications through a development project with French automotive supplier Valeo.
"The AI infrastructure and electric mobility industries are currently trapped: if you want higher power, you are forced to sacrifice space, increase costs, and lose usable capacity," Badawy said. "Scalvy is changing this, as the only company enabling systems to scale to massive power levels without those traditional penalties, and crucially, without requiring customers to drastically re-architect their systems."
Silicon Badia, the venture firm founded in 2012 by Fawaz Zu'bi, Namek Zu'bi and Emile Cubeisy and headquartered in both Amman and New York, was the first Arab VC fund to establish a full-time US presence.
As Namek Zu'bi put it on LinkedIn: "Every conversation in tech right now is about AI compute. What's getting far less attention is the power infrastructure that has to feed all of it. And it's not just data centres, this bottleneck shows up across industries, well beyond AI. Scalvy is tackling this at the architectural level, not patching around it."
Both founders have roots in the region. Badawy studied electrical power engineering at Cairo University before completing a PhD at the University of Akron in Ohio, then spent eight years as a tenured professor at San Jose State University, where he founded the Center of Power Electronic Converters, before leaving academia to launch Scalvy in 2022. Ibrahem, the CTO, studied at the University of Khartoum before earning a master's at Akron, where his path crossed with Badawy's, and spent nearly five years on inverter controls at Delphi and BorgWarner before co-founding the company. The team has grown from four people to nearly 40.
Scalvy has completed technical validation of its platform under real-world operating conditions with several Fortune 500 customers across mobility and energy infrastructure, and says those customers are now transitioning from validation into production-scale programmes. The company is initially targeting three markets where power has become a critical constraint: AI data centres (powering megawatt-scale, grid-interactive server racks without sacrificing compute density), energy storage (improving resilience and grid-forming capability at rack level) and electric mobility (compact, battery-integrated powertrains).
"Power electronics literally powers our world, but innovation in the category has been painfully slow," said Matthew Nordan, GP at Azolla Ventures. "Scalvy's unique architecture changes the game with minimal tradeoffs: it's just better, cheaper, and more flexible."
