Vertical Data opens New Delhi AI office

Vertical Data said on April 27 that it has opened a New Delhi office to pursue artificial intelligence infrastructure business in India. (verticaldata.io) The Las Vegas company said the office will be its regional base for AI infrastructure, GPU financing and data-center development activity. Vertical Data trades on the OTCQB market under the ticker VDTA. (verticaldata.io 1) (verticaldata.io 2) Vertical Data said it has partnered with an initial two-person local team, Ratan Kapoor and Dhanraj Misra, and plans to hire more staff. The company said the team will focus on sovereign AI programs, enterprise GPU deployments, data-center development and Indian neocloud operators. (verticaldata.io) Sovereign AI usually means building and running AI systems with local control over data, computing power and models, rather than relying entirely on foreign platforms. India has been pushing that idea through its IndiaAI mission under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. (forbes.com) (pib.gov.in) The government’s IndiaAI program said it is building a national AI ecosystem, and official material tied to the mission says AI compute infrastructure is one of its core pillars. A February 2025 government document said the program’s cloud empanelment process was aimed at making 10,000 graphics processing units available for approved users. (pib.gov.in) (negd.gov.in) Vertical Data’s bet is that India’s demand for AI computing and server capacity will keep rising. Astute Analytica said India’s data-center market was valued at $8.94 billion in 2025 and projects it will reach $31.36 billion by 2035. (astuteanalytica.com) A separate estimate cited by Vertical Data says India’s installed data-center capacity could reach 9.2 gigawatts by 2030, up from about 960 megawatts. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis attributed that forecast to Nomura. (verticaldata.io) (ieefa.org) Chief executive Deven Soni said India is “one of the most important AI infrastructure markets in the world” and said the company’s mix of hardware, financing, managed services and data-center development is aimed at that demand. The New Delhi office is its first announced India base. (verticaldata.io) The move gives Vertical Data a local foothold as India expands state-backed AI compute and private data-center capacity at the same time. The next test is whether a two-person beachhead can turn those plans into contracts. (verticaldata.io) (pib.gov.in)