Scaleway SAS Due Diligence

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France · owned by Iliad Group (France) · scaleway.com · 40 vendors

Scaleway is a European cloud provider offering a full-stack cloud platform including compute, storage, networking, and AI/ML infrastructure services. It enables developers and businesses to build, train, deploy, and scale AI models and applications on a resilient and sustainable cloud ecosystem. Scaleway is known for its commitment to European data sovereignty and environmentally responsible data center operations.

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Last updated 2026-10-23 · revision 22

40 direct vendors, 311 subvendors

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Compliance

9 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

SOC 2 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://security.scaleway.com/, https://www.scaleway.com/en/security-and-resilience/

SecNumCloud — No public evidence

Evidence: https://www.scaleway.com/en/security-and-resilience/, https://cyber.gouv.fr/prestataires-de-services-dinformatique-en-nuage-secnumcloud, https://www.scaleway.com/en/public-sector-solutions/

ISO 27001 (source) — Evidence found

Evidence: https://security.scaleway.com/, https://www.scaleway.com/en/security-and-resilience/

Financials

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Financial Resilience Score: 6/10

Scaleway benefits from strong parent backing by Iliad Group, controlled by billionaire Xavier Niel, which has committed significant capex including a publicly announced €200 million GPU/AI investment in 2023 and additional commitments thereafter. The company is strategically positioned to benefit from European sovereignty regulations (GAIA-X, EU AI Act, SecNumCloud, NIS2) that favor a French/European cloud provider over U.S. hyperscalers, particularly for public-sector and regulated customers. Its AI positioning is strong, hosting Mistral AI and Hugging Face workloads, and its early purchase of H100 GPU capacity drove scarcity-driven revenue growth in 2023-2024. However, Scaleway remains sub-scale versus hyperscalers, with annual revenue around €100M dwarfed by AWS (>$100B), Azure, and Google Cloud, creating structural cost-per-unit disadvantages. The business is capex-heavy and likely loss-making, with GPU clusters, datacenter expansion, and software platform development requiring large investment with long payback periods. Operating profitability has not been publicly confirmed. Its financial resilience depends substantially on Iliad's continued willingness and ability to fund the build-out, and Iliad itself carries significant leverage from its 2021 take-private transaction. Customer concentration risk on AI workloads and increasing competition from hyperscalers' own EU sovereign cloud offerings present additional risks.

Key strengths: Strong parent backing from Iliad Group and Xavier Niel, €200M GPU/AI investment commitment in 2023, European sovereignty regulation tailwinds (GAIA-X, EU AI Act, SecNumCloud, NIS2), Strategic AI positioning hosting Mistral AI and Hugging Face, Multi-region European footprint (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw), Stated long-term target of ~€1B revenue by 2027-2028

Risk factors: Sub-scale versus hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Capex-heavy business model with likely negative or breakeven operating profitability, Dependence on parent Iliad funding which carries significant leverage, Customer concentration risk on AI workloads (e.g., Mistral), Competitive risk from hyperscalers launching EU sovereign cloud offerings, Structural cost-per-unit disadvantages versus larger competitors

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