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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 20-F
(Mark One)
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
OR
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
SHELL COMPANY PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of event requiring this shell company report
Commission file number: 001-35173
NEBIUS GROUP N.V.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
N/A
(Translation of Registrant’s name in English)
The Netherlands
(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
Schiphol Boulevard 165
Schiphol P7 1118 BG, The Netherlands
(Address of principal executive offices)
General Counsel
Schiphol 1118 BG, The Netherlands
Email: askIR@nebius.com
(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act.
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Ordinary Shares
NBIS
NASDAQ Global Select Market
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act. None
Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act. Class A Ordinary Shares
Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the Annual Report.(1)
Number of shares outstanding
Class A
219,465,088
Class B
33,551,883
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ◻
If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes ◻ No ⌧
Note—checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ⌧ No ◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ⌧ No ◻
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
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Non-accelerated filer
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ◻
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐
† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.
Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:
U.S. GAAP
International Financial Reporting Standards ◻as issued by the International AccountingStandards Board
Other ◻
If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. Item 17 ◻ Item 18 ◻
If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ⌧
(1) Excluding 69,023,973 Class A shares held in treasury.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I.
Item 1.
Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisors
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Item 2.
Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable
Item 3.
Key Information
Item 4.
Information on the Company
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Item 4A.
Unresolved Staff Comments
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Item 5.
Operating and Financial Review and Prospects
Item 6.
Directors, Senior Management and Employees
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Item 7.
Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions
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Item 8.
Financial Information
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Item 9.
The Offer and Listing
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Item 10.
Additional Information
Item 11.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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Item 12.
Description of Securities other than Equity Securities
PART II.
Item 13.
Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies
Item 14.
Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds
Item 15.
Controls and Procedures
Item 16A.
Audit Committee Financial Expert
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Item 16B.
Code of Ethics
Item 16C.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Item 16D.
Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees
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Item 16E.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
Item 16F.
Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant
Item 16G.
Corporate Governance
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Item 16H.
Mine Safety Disclosure
Item 16J.
Insider trading policies
Item 16K.
Cybersecurity
PART III.
Item 17.
Financial Statements
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Item 18.
Item 19.
Exhibits
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In this Annual Report on Form 20-F (this “Annual Report”), references to “Nebius Group,” the “company,” “we,” “us,” or similar terms are to Nebius Group N.V. and, as the context requires, its consolidated subsidiaries.
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and are expressed in U.S. Dollars. In this Annual Report references to “U.S. dollars” or “$” are to United States dollars.
Our fiscal year ends on December 31 of each year. References to any specific fiscal year refer to the year ended December 31 of the calendar year specified.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This Annual Report and the materials referenced herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. All statements contained or implied other than statements of historical facts, including, without limitation, statements regarding our business plans, market opportunities, capacity buildout plans, capital expenditure requirements, financing requirements and projected financial performance, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, these forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “potential,” “continue,” “is/are likely to” or other similar expressions.
In addition, these forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are not a guarantee of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted or implied by such statements, and our reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from the results predicted or implied by such statements include those described in the section headed “Risk Factors”, including our ability to:
Many of these risks and uncertainties depend on the actions of third parties and are largely outside of our control. Our actual results of operations may also differ materially from those stated in or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those described under Part I, Item 3.D. “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report.
All information in this Annual Report is as of April 30, 2026, and we undertake no duty to update this information unless required by law. In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this Annual Report, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.
We operate in an evolving environment. New risks emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the effect of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Item 1. Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisors.
Not applicable.
Item 2. Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable.
Item 3. Key Information.
D. Risk Factors
Investing in our Class A shares involves a high degree of risk. The risks and uncertainties described below and elsewhere in this Annual Report, including in the section headed “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects”, could materially adversely affect our business. These are not the only risks that we face; additional risks and uncertainties of which we are unaware, or that we currently deem immaterial, may also become important factors that affect us. Any of these risks could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In such case, the trading price of our Class A shares could decline.
Summary of Risk Factors
Risks Related to Our Business Model and Industry
Risks Related to the Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Environment
Risks Related to Our Operations
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Risks Related to Legal and Regulatory Matters
Risks Related to Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Insurance
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Risks Related to Our Financial Results and Reporting
Risks Related to Our Class A Ordinary Shares
Risks Related to US Shareholders
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General Risks
Detailed Overview of Risk Factors
Although our Class A shares have been listed on Nasdaq since 2011, our current businesses are relatively young and operate in highly competitive and evolving markets characterized by rapid commercial and technological advancements. We encounter risks frequently experienced by growing companies that operate at an early stage in rapidly changing and capital-intensive sectors, including those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section. These factors may make it difficult for investors to evaluate our current business and future prospects. For example, if our assumptions regarding these risks change due to fluctuations in our markets, such as any material reduction in AI spending or changes in demand for specialized AI cloud infrastructure, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations, and our future prospects could be adversely affected. Furthermore, our current businesses have never been profitable and may never reach profitability. If we are unable to expand and develop our businesses to the scale we hope or at all, our financial condition, results of operations and future prospects would be adversely affected.
Although we have grown and continue to grow rapidly, our businesses are relatively immature, not currently profitable and extremely capital intensive. We have made, and intend to continue to make, significant financial investments into our business, including expenditures related to the enhancement and expansion of our data centers and the procurement of key components (including GPUs), and other future growth opportunities including potential acquisitions. Accordingly, we expect to raise additional equity or debt financing, either through the public or private markets or other third-party sources, potentially including local or state incentives, to support our growth. We will likely also pursue secured financing arrangements, including asset-backed or other collateralized structures, which could provide additional sources of liquidity and capital flexibility. The management of a more complex capital structure, including multiple layers of secured and unsecured indebtedness with differing covenants, maturities and priorities, could increase our financial and operational risks and restrict our strategic and financial flexibility, including our ability to incur additional indebtedness, make investments or acquisitions, pay dividends or repurchase shares, or otherwise deploy capital, and could heighten the risk of disputes among creditors or claims against pledged assets. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to obtain such financing on acceptable terms or at all, or successfully manage the additional risks arising from a more complex capital structure.
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Our ability to raise additional capital on acceptable terms could be affected by the broader macroeconomic environment. The trading prices of public companies and terms of debt facilities have been, and may continue to be, highly volatile as a result of broader geopolitical and macroeconomic dynamics, including conflicts, political tensions, recession risks or other sustained adverse market events, inflation risk, protectionist measures, interest rate volatility, and/or market downturns, any of which may reduce our ability to access capital on favorable terms or at all.
Any failure to fund the necessary level of capital expenditures to maintain and expand our operations, meet our growth targets and/or invest in future growth opportunities, could have a material adverse effect on our expansion, revenues, cash flow, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, equity or convertible debt issuances could result in our existing shareholders suffering significant dilution and/or result in the issuance of securities that have preferential rights and privileges in addition to those of our existing Class A shares, and debt financings could entail significant additional cost and operational complexity. Even if we are able to raise sufficient capital, we cannot guarantee that we will deploy it in a manner that allows us to achieve better operating results or grow our business.
The market for our offerings is intensely competitive and evolving at a rapid pace. To remain competitive, we must evolve our products and differentiate our offerings from those of our competitors while the market experiences volatility, changes in customer requirements and industry standards, regulatory developments, advancements in technology, and the frequent introduction of new or improved solutions. Additionally, we may incur significant costs and may experience delays in developing new solutions and enhancements to our offerings in order to adapt to the changing AI landscape, and may not achieve our desired return on any investment. A failure to compete successfully could materially adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and future prospects.
For our core AI infrastructure business, our key competitors are specialized cloud service providers focused on AI, including CoreWeave, Crusoe and Lambda. We also compete with general purpose cloud computing providers including Amazon (AWS), Google (Google Cloud Platform), Microsoft (Azure), and Oracle. In addition, national governments have announced or launched initiatives in certain jurisdictions, including the U.S., to sponsor, support or otherwise encourage the development of AI infrastructure, which may intensify the competition in our core sector. Our smaller business units also face significant competition in their respective sectors. Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, marketing, sales, and other resources, greater name recognition, longer operating histories, and a larger customer base. We expect to continue to face intense competition from current and new entrants into the market. Our ability to compete effectively depends on a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, and in particular:
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If we are not able to compete effectively with current and future players, our businesses’ abilities to generate income and sustainably fund development will be negatively impacted.
Our ability to maximize revenues and cash flow relies heavily on our ability to develop and grow a balanced customer base, continue to attract new customers and retain and expand our longer-term business with existing customers. Our ability to attract and retain customers will depend on a variety of factors, some of which are outside of our control, including, without limitation:
In addition, while we have secured longer-term customer contracts with Meta and Microsoft, most of our customer engagements to date have been relatively short-term. As a result, we have limited experience in delivering large customer contracts. If our efforts to expand our relationships with existing and prospective customers, and to conclude and effectively deliver on our existing and future longer-term contracts, are not successful, this may have an adverse impact on our revenues, cash flow, financial condition and results of operations.
Although we have entered into, and expect to continue to pursue, longer-term customer arrangements such as those we have secured with Meta and Microsoft, including multi-year agreements that may involve significant capital expenditures, technical requirements, service level commitments and capacity reservations, we have limited experience in delivering, implementing and managing such contracts at scale. These arrangements will require substantial upfront capital expenditures, long-term infrastructure commitments and ongoing operational support, and may expose us to performance obligations, service credits, penalties, termination rights, pricing adjustments and other contractual liabilities. Longer-term contracts also require us to forecast customer demand, utilization levels, costs and technological developments over extended periods, and our assumptions may prove inaccurate.
If we are unable to effectively implement, operate and manage these longer-term customer arrangements, we may experience cost overruns, underutilized capacity, reduced margins, delays in revenue recognition, customer disputes or
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early terminations. In addition, such contracts may limit our operational flexibility and increase the complexity of our business. Any of the foregoing could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, cash flow, financial condition and results of operations.
AI technologies have been developing, and will likely continue to develop, at a rapid pace. In addition, the market is immature and volatile, and it is uncertain whether it will sustain high levels of demand and market acceptance. We are unable to predict whether additional computing power will continue to be required to develop larger, more powerful AI models or to support inference or other use cases. Technological advancements with open-source AI models, devices, chip design and inference may lead to compute and other efficiencies that may impact the demand for AI services, including our offerings. Furthermore, market acceptance, understanding, and valuation of solutions and services that incorporate AI technologies are uncertain, and the perceived value of AI technologies used and/or provided by our customers could be inaccurate. Any decreased or differing demand for our offerings may adversely affect our revenue and profitability.
If we are unable to develop enhancements to and new features for our existing offerings or acceptable new offerings that keep pace with rapid technological developments, or if the AI landscape does not develop to the extent and in the manner we anticipate, our business, results of operations and financial condition will be harmed. Moreover, we may incur significant costs and experience delays in developing new offerings, or enhancing our current offerings, in order to adapt to market changes, and may not achieve our targeted return on such investment.
We have been expanding our global sales team rapidly in recent quarters from a low base. We may not be able to successfully build, expand, and deploy our sales organization on schedule and to the scale we hope, if at all, or to successfully hire, retain, train, and motivate our sales personnel, in which case our growth and long-term success could be adversely affected.
Sales to customers of our core offerings can involve relatively long and unpredictable sales cycles. Before a customer is willing to purchase our products and services, they may require extensive education and testing opportunities with our offerings, which further lengthens our sales cycle. As a result, it is difficult to predict when we will obtain new customers and commence generating revenue from these customers. If we are unable to build out our sales team, that team is not successful in capturing customers, or our sales cycles lengthen, our future revenue could be lower than expected in a given period or overall, which would have an adverse impact on our operating results.
The pricing for our key offerings continues to mature as our industry develops and competition increases. We anticipate that increasing competition may lead to further pressures on pricing and differentiation. In addition, in a weakened economy, companies that have competing products may reduce prices which could require us to reduce our average selling prices and harm our operating results. We may also encounter pricing pressure in respect of capacity for older generations of GPUs as newer generations are introduced. We may be unable to effectively calibrate our prices, whether through increases or decreases, in order to remain competitive and attract new customers and develop our existing customer base.
Given our relatively early stage of development and the immaturity of the market, there is limited experience with respect to determining the most favorable prices and pricing models for our offerings. As customer demand shifts to inference and other use cases, we may experience changing pricing dynamics. In addition, larger competitors with more diverse offerings may reduce the price of any offerings that compete with ours or may bundle them with other solutions and services. This could lead customers to demand greater price concessions or additional functionality at the same price levels. These risks may reduce our margins and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and future prospects.
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Market estimates are subject to significant uncertainty, particularly in a new and rapidly evolving market with newly emerging use cases, and are based on assumptions that may not prove to be accurate and variables that change over time. Accordingly, our forecasts for market growth should not be taken as indicative of our future growth. If our assumptions about the adoption or growth rates of AI and AI cloud infrastructure prove to be inaccurate, we may fail to meet our growth targets, which could negatively affect our financial condition, results of operations and future prospects.
Our smaller business units, Avride and TripleTen, operate in new and evolving industries and sectors, are at early stages of development and face significant competition in their respective sectors. The limited operating history of these businesses, the dynamic and rapidly evolving markets in which they operate and other factors beyond their control may make it difficult to evaluate these businesses and their future prospects and trends. In addition, we are actively pursuing third-party investment into Avride, including transactions in which we may cede control, as we did in May 2025 in the case of our former Toloka business unit. We may be unsuccessful in securing such investments, which could limit the growth prospects of the Avride business.
Our autonomous vehicles business unit, Avride, requires substantial capital expenditures and operating funds to support its growth and respond to a dynamic business environment. We have made significant financial investments into Avride to date and are actively exploring third-party financing into this business. In October 2025, Uber participated alongside us in an investment of up to $375 million into Avride. Any such future financing may be from a wide variety of different parties including financial investors, competitors or strategic buyers, and may take a variety of forms including minority or majority investments and may come with varying levels of requirements or conditions. In the event that we are unable to secure further significant third-party financing for Avride, however, the likelihood that it will be able to meet its business objectives, if at all, will be significantly diminished. In addition, Avride’s business model is heavily reliant on commercial partnerships to expand into different business models and geographies. If it is unable to secure and retain commercial partnerships, its ability to meet its business objectives may be significantly limited.
In addition, any failure of the Avride business to adhere to stringent safety and product liability requirements, or satisfy applicable regulatory obligations, could harm its reputation, limit its ability to attract third-party financing or business partners, result in liability claims, and significantly impede its growth prospects.
Geopolitical risks, including those arising from trade tensions and/or the imposition of tariffs, terrorist activity, or acts of civil or international hostility, are increasing and could have a negative effect on our business and could disrupt our business, partners, customers, supply chains or the economy as a whole. The introduction of tariffs, stock market volatility and interest rate increases, have had, and may continue to have, an impact on our ability to forecast our anticipated financing alternatives and expected cash flows and operating results, margins, business, operating results, financial condition, and future prospects. The trading prices of public companies in the markets in which we operate have recently been highly volatile as a result of general macroeconomic and political conditions in the markets and regions where we operate including for those reasons described in this “Risk Factors” section.
Many jurisdictions have taken, and will likely continue to take, a proactive and protectionist approach to international trade generally. Governments and regulators are also increasingly recognizing the importance of data centers
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in ensuring the availability, resilience, security and stability of important services, including in relation to national security, healthcare and financial and banking services. As a result, foreign ownership of data centers may come under heightened scrutiny in certain jurisdictions.
Our overall performance also depends in part on worldwide economic conditions and the economic health of our current and prospective customers. Weak global and regional economic conditions affect the rate of information technology spending, including in the area of generative AI, and could adversely affect our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase our offerings.
The markets in which we operate are at risk of sudden and material changes as a result of numerous factors, many of which are outside of our control. We anticipate that market developments, including consolidation of potential or current customers, recent and future acquisitions by our competitors, or partnerships or strategic cooperation between competitors, advancements in technology and the emergence of new entrants, will continue to change the competitive environment in which we operate. For example, acquisitions or strategic arrangements completed by our competitors may allow them to offer more directly competitive offerings and adapt more quickly to changes in the markets in which we operate. It is also possible that some customers may develop their own infrastructure that may compete with our offerings or adopt a competitor’s infrastructure for services that they currently acquire from us. These changes, and any failure to accurately predict and adapt to such changes and compete effectively, could materially and adversely affect our revenue, cash flow, financial condition and results of operations.
We currently rely on Nvidia for the GPU chips we use and on a limited number of other suppliers for other key components in our infrastructure. The concentration of our suppliers exposes us to a number of risks including:
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Should we be required to change our current suppliers, including where our customers have contractually specified our use of certain suppliers for specified components, our ability to meet our obligations to our customers, including scheduled compute access, could be adversely affected and our solutions may not perform at the level of quality intended, which could adversely affect our growth plans, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our suppliers themselves rely on complex networks of third-party suppliers for semiconductor manufacturing, hardware components, and other critical inputs, which introduces further risks throughout our supply chain and over which we have no control. Any kind of disruption in the supply chain may affect our suppliers’ ability to meet our requirements. To the extent any of our suppliers’ businesses are impacted by business, legal compliance, litigation, and financial concerns, including regulatory scrutiny and export controls, our business may be adversely affected. For example, the use of protectionist policies including, but not limited to tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, sanctions and export controls, may impact the cost and availability of GPU chips or other hardware. In the event of any supply disruption, it may not be possible for us to secure alternate sources of components in a timely and cost-effective manner, or at all.
We intend to continue to purchase, build-to-suit or enter lease agreements with respect to additional data center capacity. In particular, we are developing several facilities in the U.S., a market in which we have limited experience operating, and in Europe, and are exploring other appropriate locations.
The expansion of our data center infrastructure, including new data centers, will be complex, and delays in the completion of these projects or the cost, availability or access to components necessary for these projects may result in increased expenditures, operational and project inefficiencies, delays, or interruptions in the delivery of our services to our clients. Moreover, problems related to our data center infrastructure may only become evident once we have launched operations and may not be discovered during the design and testing phases, which could limit or delay our growth plans.
Construction projects expose us to a variety of significant risks, including:
The selection of sites is a critical factor in our data center expansion plans. We may not be able to identify adequate or appropriate properties that have the appropriate specifications required for our business including power capacity, connectivity, and other considerations, or to obtain required permits and regulatory approvals for such sites. Specific projects may also face opposition from local communities, environmental groups or other parties, including public
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or private entities. We may also face increasing competition for appropriate sites as data center development expands rapidly in our markets.
Moreover, many of the leases we have entered or expect to enter for third-party data centers have multi-year terms and fixed capacity. If we are unable to accurately predict the data center capacity that our customers require, we could incur additional costs as a result of leasing more capacity than our customers require. We may also need to seek additional data center capacity in the event customer demand exceeds our forecasts, or if any leases with third parties are terminated or not renewed, which we may be unable to do on reasonable terms or at all.
Additionally, the global energy market is currently experiencing significant volatility and inflationary pressures, driven by a combination of geopolitical events, military conflicts, shifts in energy supply and demand, regulatory changes, and broader macroeconomic factors. We expect the cost of power to remain volatile, unpredictable, and subject to inflationary pressures. Changes in energy prices, availability, or supply stability could materially affect our capital and operating costs, including the cost of powering our data centers. Prolonged increases in energy costs or interruptions in supply could impair our ability to operate efficiently, negatively impact our financial forecasting and results, and materially affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and prospects.
In addition, national and regional governments have announced or are exploring proposals that, if adopted, would require data center operators to bear a greater share of the electricity generation, transmission, grid expansion, or related infrastructure costs associated with their operations. Such measures may include requirements to procure or construct dedicated or on-site power generation facilities, fund grid upgrades, make advance capital contributions to utility providers, enter into long-term capacity payment arrangements (including for unused capacity), or otherwise pay for certain costs and expenses with respect to energy consumption.
In some jurisdictions, regulatory frameworks may also require or encourage data center operators to pair electricity demand with local generation or storage capacity, accept curtailment or operational restrictions during periods of grid stress or implement measures that could delay, curtail or otherwise limit access to power. In addition, certain governments may restrict, condition, delay or temporarily suspend new data center development in order to assess grid capacity. These trends may be reinforced by increasing public and community scrutiny of data center development, including concerns regarding energy consumption, environmental impact, land use and strain on local infrastructure, which may result in political pressure, permitting delays, voter-driven initiatives or referenda, more stringent regulatory requirements, litigation, or opposition to new or expanded projects which could restrict, condition, delay or temporarily suspend new or existing data center development.
The implementation of such requirements, as well as adverse public sentiment or opposition, or uncertainty regarding the scope, timing or applicability of such requirements, could significantly increase our capital expenditures and operating costs, delay or prevent development timelines, reduce the economic attractiveness of certain markets, or limit our ability to secure power, permits, incentives or other governmental approvals on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
As part of our growth strategy, we are evaluating and may pursue the development or acquisition of data center capacity as part of expanding our data center footprint in new geographic markets where we have limited or no prior operating experience. Entering new territories involves risks and uncertainties that may be greater than those associated with expansion in markets where we have established operations or prior experience.
These risks include, among others, unfamiliar or evolving regulatory frameworks; political and economic instability; sanctions or trade restrictions; challenges in obtaining land rights, permits, licenses and governmental approvals; difficulties in enforcing contractual and property rights; limitations in local infrastructure, including reliable power, water and telecommunications capacity; construction and supply chain constraints; currency volatility and restrictions on capital movement; heightened security risks; corruption concerns; and limited availability of experienced personnel. In certain markets, we may also face increased risks relating to governmental intervention, abrupt regulatory changes, or changes in tax regimes. Because we have limited or no operating history in some regions in which we may seek to expand, such as Asia and Central Asia, we may underestimate the costs, timelines and operational challenges
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associated with entering and operating in such markets. If we are unable to successfully identify, develop and operate data center facilities in new territories on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, or if geopolitical, regulatory or infrastructure-related risks materialize, our expansion plans could be delayed or curtailed, our costs could increase, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our data centers and associated infrastructure may be subject to physical or cybersecurity attacks or failures, including as a result of outside nefarious parties (whether private or state-backed), human error, malfeasance, internal threats, various kinds of system errors, system vulnerabilities, lack of or inadequate cybersecurity controls and protective mechanisms, which may result in service outages and adversely affect our ability to provide our services to customers. We are unable to ensure that the security measures that we take will be adequate to prevent or protect our data centers and associated infrastructure against a cybersecurity attack, and any impact to our data centers will affect our services and may also impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Various factors, many of which are beyond our control, can adversely affect the performance, availability, and delivery of our services to our customers including:
We are investing significantly in continuously increasing the compute capacity we are able to make available to our current and future customers and expanding the number, size and efficiency of our data centers worldwide. These expansion efforts require significant investment in capital, resources, personnel and management time. Our expected returns are dependent on customer demand for the additional compute capacity that we build. There are many factors that can reduce or constrain increases in customer demand that are beyond our control, including pricing of competitors, advancements in technologies, changes to customer needs and specifications, our inability to develop enhancements to our data centers and our service and platform offerings that meet customer needs and attract customers, and other factors including those described in this “Risk Factors” section.
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We depend on being able to secure reliable and cost-effective power, network and internet connectivity and other services such as water to operate our data center facilities. Any inability to secure these requirements at acceptable cost, or shortages, supply chain issues or lack of availability of any of the services upon which we rely, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and future prospects.
In particular, limitations on the availability of power sources, transmission and distribution may limit our ability to obtain the power that we require to implement our growth plans and adequately service our customers. Moreover, regulators or public agencies in the power market, power providers, or other market participants may impose onerous operating conditions on the availability or provision of, or approval for, power. Our inability to secure sufficient power or any power outages, shortages, supply chain issues, capacity constraints, or significant increases in the cost of securing power may lead to significant delays, increased costs or lack of availability of the level of power required to operate our current business and implement our future growth plans.
The rapid expansion of AI and large-scale data center development has significantly increased electricity demand in certain markets, such that U.S. policymakers, utility providers, and regulators are increasingly scrutinizing the impact of data centers on ratepayers and grid reliability. As a result, we may face increased scrutiny, additional regulatory conditions, cost allocation requirements, or limitations on access to grid capacity. Competition for fuel sources, generation equipment, transmission capacity, and grid interconnection may increase costs, extend development timelines, or limit our ability to secure reliable and economically viable power on acceptable terms or at all. If regulators impose additional obligations on data center operators to mitigate consumer energy cost impacts, our financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
The recent rapid growth in demand for AI products and services and AI-related infrastructure may reflect accelerated industry expansion and heightened market expectations rather than sustainable long-term adoption of AI applications. A significant portion of our recent growth has been driven by customers investing in AI initiatives and expanding AI-related workloads. If customer spending on AI solutions slows, is deferred, reprioritized, or fails to scale as anticipated, our financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
In addition, industry participants have significantly increased capital expenditures related to AI infrastructure in response to anticipated future demand. If expected AI workloads do not materialize, customers reduce AI-related budgets, or monetization of AI applications proves more limited than projected, excess industry capacity could develop, leading to volatility in the public markets and significant corrections. Such conditions may result in pricing pressure, reduced utilization rates, longer sales cycles, contract renegotiations, or impairment charges. Any slowdown or correction in AI-related spending or investment could materially and adversely affect our revenue growth, results of operations, financial condition and share price.
Expanding or integrating a broader software stack into the services we offer may involve a number of risks, including challenges with interoperability between systems, scalability limitations, data migration issues, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and unforeseen technical or operational complexities. Our AI cloud offerings rely on sophisticated software, hardware, and network infrastructure, and any failure, delay, or degradation in these systems could adversely affect the functionality, reliability, or availability of our services.
The introduction of new products and services may also expose us to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, software bugs, or other security incidents that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of data. In addition, the implementation of new capabilities may require significant employee training, changes to operational processes, or coordination across multiple teams or third-party partners, any of which could lead to delays, increased costs, or service disruptions.
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Moreover, the rapid pace of technological change in AI and cloud computing may result in our solutions becoming less competitive or requiring frequent updates to remain relevant. Regulatory, compliance, or industry standards may also evolve, and new products or features may need to meet additional legal or contractual requirements, including data privacy, export control, or ethical AI standards. Failure to anticipate, address, or respond effectively to these challenges could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Our future success is dependent, in part, on our ability to hire, integrate, train, manage, retain, and motivate the members of our senior management team and key technical team. The loss of existing key personnel, particularly Arkady Volozh, our founder and Chief Executive Officer, and our key infrastructure and technical personnel, could disrupt our operations and have an adverse effect on our ability to achieve our goals.
Competition for highly skilled talent in our industry is intense, and we may not ultimately be successful in identifying, hiring or retaining qualified personnel to satisfy our current or future needs. Moreover, in the event that our direct or indirect competitors recruit our current or prospective employees, our level of expertise and ability to execute our business plan could be negatively impacted.
In addition, current and prospective employees may give significant weight to the value of equity awards, and if the value of our Class A shares decreases or fluctuates materially, it may significantly impact our ability to attract, retain and appropriately incentivize the talent we require. If we were required to increase the cash component of our compensation, this would increase our cash expenditures which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition, and if we were required to increase the size of our equity awards to remain competitive in the employment market, this could result in greater than expected dilution for our shareholders.
We are subject to various environmental and health and safety laws and regulations in the United States and at our non-U.S. locations, including those concerning the generation, storage, handling and disposal of hazardous substances and other regulated materials. Some of these laws and regulations may impose joint and several liability, without regard to fault, for investigation and cleanup costs on current as well as on former owners and operators of real property and persons who have disposed of or released hazardous substances into the environment. Some of our operations also involve the use of hazardous substances and other regulated materials including natural gas for power generation and petroleum fuel for emergency generators, as well as batteries, cleaning solutions, refrigerants and other materials that are available and present at our data center sites. There may be unknown hazardous substances or regulated materials present at sites that we own, operate or lease, including in the soil or groundwater. To the extent that any hazardous substances and other regulated materials must be investigated, cleaned or removed from sites that we own, operate or lease, we could be responsible under health and safety laws and regulations for the cleanup and removal of such materials which could require significant time and expose us to material liabilities and costs. Failure to observe best practices with respect to environmental management may also result in reputational harm to our company.
As part of our growth strategy, we have in the past and expect to continue to make investments in and/or acquire complementary companies, services, products, technologies, or talent with the goal of developing our current businesses by adding capabilities and clients or by expanding into new markets and verticals. For example, in February 2026 we completed the acquisition of Tavily, an agentic search business.
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Acquisitions may present operational challenges, particularly with respect to companies that have significant or complex operations or that provide services where we do not have significant prior experience. We also may not have success in identifying, executing and integrating acquisitions in the future or negotiating acceptable terms, or at all. The occurrence of any of these risks could have an impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Furthermore, we may assume, or become subject to, liabilities, risks, or obligations arising from a target company’s past actions, omissions, or non-compliance, including undisclosed, contingent, or unknown liabilities. Such legacy risks may include, among others, regulatory or legal violations, contractual breaches, employment or tax matters, environmental liabilities, health and safety risks, data protection or cybersecurity incidents, litigation exposure, or other compliance deficiencies including regulatory investigations. Although we seek to conduct appropriate due diligence and negotiate contractual protections including appropriate representations, warranties and indemnities, such measures may not identify all risks or may prove insufficient to fully protect us against liabilities arising from a target’s historical operations.
In addition, if we are unsuccessful at integrating existing and future acquisitions, or the technologies and personnel associated with such acquisitions, the business, operating results, financing condition, and prospects of the combined company could be adversely affected. Additionally, integrations could take longer than expected, or if we move too quickly in trying to integrate an acquisition, it may demand significant attention from our management team, and we may fail to achieve the financial and strategic goals that were contemplated at the time of the transaction, which may materially adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and prospects.
We are exposed to risks arising from geopolitical instability and armed conflicts, including the ongoing hostilities involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. A portion of our operations, personnel, assets and business relationships are located in or connected to Israel. As a result, our facilities, infrastructure, employees and supply chain partners in the region are subject to the risk of disruption, damage or destruction due to military actions, terrorist activities, cyberattacks or other conflict-related events. Such events could result in business interruptions, delays in production or delivery, loss of critical data, increased security costs or harm to our personnel, any of which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, the expansion or escalation of regional conflicts, or the outbreak of new conflicts elsewhere, could adversely affect the global economy, including through increased financial market volatility, disruptions to international trade routes, sanctions or export controls, and reduced investor and consumer confidence. Geopolitical tensions involving major energy-producing regions may also lead to significant fluctuations in energy prices, which could increase our operating costs, including the cost of powering data centers.
Furthermore, global conflicts could disrupt the supply, availability and pricing of raw materials and components critical to the semiconductor industry and advanced chip manufacturing, including specialty gases. These disruptions may result in shortages, increased costs or delays in procurement, which could impair our ability to deliver our services in a timely and cost-effective manner or at all. Adverse effects on our suppliers arising from such conditions could further exacerbate these risks.
The extent and duration of these geopolitical and economic impacts are uncertain and difficult to predict. Any of the foregoing factors, individually or in the aggregate, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may seek to expand our businesses by entering into strategic partnerships, joint ventures or other arrangements with third parties including for distribution of our services. Identifying strategic relationships with appropriate counterparties, and negotiating and documenting relationships with them, may take significant time and resources and distract members of senior management and key personnel. For example, in March 2026, we announced that we entered into a strategic partnership with Nvidia to expand our relationship to develop and deploy the next
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generation of hyperscale cloud for the AI market. In addition, we may not be successful in realizing the underlying benefits we anticipate from any strategic partnership within the timeframe expected, or at all. Third parties may not meet our or our customers’ needs, demands or specifications, and, as a result, our services to customers may be adversely affected and our business, growth plans, financial condition and future prospects may be harmed. Conflicts may arise with strategic partners including regarding the expectations of each party, their responsibilities, and the interpretation of terms of the agreement. These disagreements may also lead to disputes in litigation or arbitration which would take significant time of our senior management, require significant costs, and adversely affect our reputation. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining strategic relationships with third parties, our ability to compete or to grow could be impaired and our business, operating results, financial condition, and future prospects could be adversely affected.
As the market for cloud infrastructure and AI solutions continues to evolve at a rapid pace, regulators and lawmakers have begun proposing and adopting regulations and guidance on the responsible use of AI and data centers, including, for example, the AI Act in the European Union, and we expect the continued introduction of measures with respect to AI, cybersecurity, data privacy and sustainability. In addition, the recent and continuing strengthening of export controls in many jurisdictions will likely impact our supply chains and operations. Any changes to existing regulations, their interpretation and/or implementation, or new regulations, could impact our customers’ ability to use and commercialize AI tools, which in turn would impact demand for our platform and solutions, and could materially impair our ability to implement our business model and result in an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
We strive to comply with all laws and regulations that apply to our business. We may incur greater costs in connection with such compliance requirements than anticipated. If we fail to comply with applicable laws, regulations and requirements we may become subject to investigations, enforcement actions, civil and criminal penalties or injunctions. If any of these risks materialize, our businesses, results of operations, financial condition and future prospects could be seriously harmed.
In the U.S. and other markets in which we operate, we must comply with various economic and trade sanctions. Given the nature of our core business, we are monitoring regulatory developments concerning export controls regarding the semiconductor industry and their impact on our sourcing of equipment for our cloud computing infrastructure. In addition, we are monitoring a proposed rule from BIS, which if implemented as proposed, would impose requirements on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”) providers and their foreign resellers to verify the identity and beneficial ownership of foreign person customers and to perform related reporting to BIS, as well as provide BIS authority to restrict certain IaaS transactions with foreign persons.
We have implemented procedures and safeguards to facilitate our compliance with applicable laws and regulations concerning economic sanctions and export controls. We also conduct customary “know-your-customer” and onboarding procedures for third parties that we contract with, including suppliers and customers, in accordance with our internal policies. Notwithstanding these measures, we are unable to ensure that we have complied with all economic sanctions and export control laws and regulations, in particular given that the relevant rules implemented by some jurisdictions can be ambiguous. In addition, any failure by third parties outside of our control, our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, agents or intermediaries to comply with such laws and regulations could have negative consequences for us, including reputational harm and penalties, and could adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and future prospects.
Furthermore, changes in the enforcement or scope of existing economic sanctions and export controls, or changes in the targets of such laws and regulations, could result in an inability to export or sell our offerings to existing and potential customers with international operations, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations and future prospects.
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Global governmental and regulatory focus on privacy issues continues to increase and evolve, and laws and regulations concerning the handling, protection, disclosure and transfer of personal data and data sovereignty have become more complex and stringent. Many jurisdictions in which we do business, including the European Union, have laws and regulations concerning data privacy, data protection and information security that are often more restrictive than those in the U.S. In addition, data privacy, data protection and information security laws across the various markets and jurisdictions in which we operate are subject to uncertainty and conflicting interpretations and applications. Our efforts to comply with new and existing laws result in significant costs for our business. If these laws and regulations are amended, interpreted or applied in a manner not consistent with current practice, we could face fines or orders requiring that we change operating practices, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. If any inspections result in the determination that we fail to comply with the applicable data protection legislation, our competitive position, reputation, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely impacted.
Companies are experiencing an increasing number and variety of attacks on their networks on an evolving basis, presenting unprecedented cybersecurity challenges, some of which are augmented by developments in generative AI. These risks are particularly acute for technology and cloud infrastructure companies.
Third parties have in the past attempted, and in the future may attempt, to interfere with our network and offerings. Third parties may also attempt to fraudulently induce employees or customers to disclose sensitive information in order to gain access to our data or our customers’ data. In addition, state-sponsored cyberattacks may continue to rise in connection with regional geopolitical conflicts. We expect these risks, and the risks associated with other malicious cyber activities, will continue to increase. Any actual or perceived physical or cybersecurity breaches and incidents could adversely affect market perception of our infrastructure and would adversely affect our financial condition and future prospects.
We have implemented and rely on sophisticated IT and other security measures to protect our, our customers’ and partners’ businesses, information, data and personal details, as well as to safeguard the seamless operation of our offerings. While no incidents have had a material impact on our financial condition or business relationships to date, we are unable to guarantee that material incidents will not occur in the future. Despite our efforts, we may not be able to predict or recognize a cybersecurity incident, or implement adequate preventative measures, as the techniques used to sabotage systems and/or gain unauthorized access are ever-changing and may not be identified until the cyberattack has been launched against us. In the event of a serious cybersecurity breach, we could risk the loss of information, litigation and possible liability, which could cause material harm to our financial condition, reputational damage or damage to our business relationships.
In order to protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary information, we rely on, among other things, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret laws and other related laws in the markets in which we operate, together with confidentiality procedures, contractual commitments and controls. Any significant infringement of our intellectual property rights and proprietary information could adversely affect our competitive position, business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, we cannot guarantee that the steps we take to protect our intellectual property and technology rights will be sufficient to deter any misappropriation or unauthorized use of our intellectual property and
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proprietary information or provide us with any competitive advantages. For example, there is no guarantee that any confidentiality or license arrangements that we enter into with, among others, our employees, customers and partners are enforceable. Legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights can be uncertain and any inadequate protection in some jurisdictions may hinder our international expansion efforts.
We may be required to incur significant costs and dedicate significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary information. If we are unable to successfully protect these rights, we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage. Furthermore, technology companies are actively developing patents covering AI, cloud infrastructure and internet-related technologies, and disputes regarding the ownership of technologies and rights associated with online activities are likely to increase in the future. We may find ourselves having to initiate claims or litigation in order to defend our intellectual property rights or to establish the validity of such rights. Any such litigation could result in significant expense for our business and could affect our results of operations, financial condition, and future prospects.
We may in the future be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their intellectual property or proprietary rights resulting from claims that our current or future offerings infringe or otherwise misuse such rights and/or breach our arrangements with them. The cloud infrastructure and technology industries are characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of proprietary rights. We expect that the volume of these claims, regardless of validity, will increase as the number of competitors in our market continues to grow, as we continue to grow and expand into new businesses, and the volume of issued hardware and software patents and patent applications in our industry continues to increase.
Third parties may in the future claim that our current or future offerings infringe or otherwise misuse their intellectual property rights and/or breach our agreements with them. Such claims may result in legal claims against us, our customers and our third-party partners. If we are found to be in violation of a third party’s intellectual property rights, we may have to pay significant damages or compensation and/or stop using the technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights or release source code to third parties, possibly under open-source license terms, or require us to satisfy indemnification obligations owed to our customers and other third parties. In addition, we may have to seek a license for the technology, which may not be available on commercially favorable terms or at all and may significantly increase our operating expenses. Furthermore, we may have to dedicate significant time and resources to develop an alternative non-infringing technology. If we are unable to license or develop the relevant technology for any potentially infringing aspects of our business, we may be forced to limit, stop selling or redesign our offerings, which could adversely affect our competitive position, financial condition and results of operations.
The use and distribution of open-source software may involve different risks than the use of third-party commercial software. For example, generally speaking, open-source licensors provide no warranties or indemnification on such code and open-source software may have unknown bugs and other security vulnerabilities which could impact the performance and security of our offerings. In addition, open-source software licenses can impose significant limitations on the use of their proprietary software. While we believe we comply with the license terms of the open-source software that we incorporate in our offerings, from time to time we may face claims from the copyright holders of open-source software alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract for failure to meet the open-source license terms. Although we have tools and processes in place relating to software development and design to help us identify the usage of open-source software in our proprietary software, and take various steps to mitigate such exposures, it is possible that we may not be aware of all instances where open-source software has been incorporated into our proprietary software or used in connection with our solutions or our corresponding obligations under open-source. Furthermore, the copyright holders of certain open-source software could demand the release of the source code of any of our proprietary code that is a derivative work of the open-source software, or otherwise seek to enforce, have us specifically perform, or recover damages for the alleged infringement or breach of, the terms of the applicable open-source license. While we would not expect there to be any grounds for such claims or for them to be successful, any actual or claimed requirement to disclose our proprietary
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source code or pay damages for breach of any open-source software licenses could adversely affect our competitive position, sales prospects, results of operations, financial condition, and future prospects.
Any claims in connection with our use of open-source software, regardless of validity, could result in litigation, require us to purchase a license at unfavorable cost or on unfavorable terms, or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our offerings in order to replace contested open-source software with third party licensed software or our own proprietary software. The terms of various open-source licenses have been interpreted by courts to a very limited extent, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions, obligations or restrictions on our use of the open-source software. We endeavor to use open-source software in a manner that complies with the terms of the open-source licenses while at the same time not requiring the disclosure of the source code of our proprietary software. The above risks could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations and future prospects.
We carry liability, property, business interruption, cybersecurity, and directors’ and officers’ insurance and other insurance policies to cover insurable risks to our business. We select the types of insurance, including the limits and deductibles, based on our specific risk profile, including risks prevalent in our markets, the cost of the insurance coverage versus its anticipated benefit and general industry and market standards.
There can be no guarantee that any or all costs or losses incurred will be partially or fully recouped from such insurance. In addition, as cyberattacks and cyber incursions increase in frequency and degree, in particular in our industry and against technology companies, we may be unable to obtain cybersecurity insurance in amounts and on terms we view as adequate for our operations.
Furthermore, insurance coverage is becoming increasingly expensive, and in the future, we may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost or in ample amounts to protect us against losses due to liability. Any of the limits of insurance that we purchase could prove to be inadequate, which could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We have experienced fluctuations in our results of operations, and we expect that our operating results will continue to vary from period to period. Accordingly, our financial results in any one quarter should not be relied upon as indicative of future performance. The fluctuations in our results of operations may cause the market price of our Class A shares to be volatile and/or negatively impacted. We may experience significant fluctuations in our results of operations in the foreseeable future due to a variety of factors, many of which are described in this “Risk Factors” section, and including the following factors relating to the early stage of the development of our business and of the markets in which we operate:
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Any of the foregoing factors, individually or in the aggregate, or other factors discussed elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
As a public company, we are subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures, and internal control over financial reporting, and evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. The process of designing and implementing effective internal controls compliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a continuous effort and requires the investment of substantial time and resources, including by members of our senior management. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires us to include a report of management on our internal control over financial reporting in our annual report on Form 20-F, together with an attestation of our independent registered public accounting firm. The report prepared by management assessing the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting needs to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting.
While preparing the financial statements that are included in this Annual Report on Form 20-F, we identified two material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
We have concluded that these material weaknesses reflected the significant growth in our business in 2025 and the substantial changes in our organization following the complex divestment transaction we completed in 2024. Although we made significant progress in 2025 and to date in 2026 in implementing a robust controls infrastructure for our large and growing business, we were unable during 2025 to complete the implementation of all necessary controls or to remediate all material weaknesses that were identified as of December 31, 2024. In particular, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over fixed assets, and over revenue recognition in respect of our TripleTen business unit. We believe that these control deficiencies did not result in a misstatement in our annual or interim financial statements.
The material weaknesses identified were as follows:
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During the year ended December 31, 2025, and to date in 2026, our management undertook the following remedial actions to address these material weaknesses:
In 2025 and to date in 2026, management implemented a number of measures to improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and successfully remediated two of the three material weaknesses and several other control deficiencies that had been identified as of December 31, 2024. These efforts included measures to improve the overall control environment related to fixed assets management, and revenue recognition in respect of our Triple Ten business. Although we made significant progress in this regard in 2025 and to date in 2026, the remediation efforts in respect of the material weaknesses identified as of December 31, 2025 are ongoing. We expect our remediation efforts to be completed by the end of 2026.
If we are unable to remediate these material weaknesses, or if we identify additional material weaknesses in the future or otherwise fail to establish and maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations, or fail to prevent malfeasance, any of which could result in our shareholders losing confidence in our reported financial information, limitations on our access to capital markets, sanctions or investigations by regulatory authorities, harm to our results of operations and a decline in the market price of our Class A shares.
We will not be able to fully remediate the identified material weaknesses until the ongoing steps described above have been completed and our internal controls have been operating effectively for a sufficient period of time. We have already made significant improvements to our control environment and business processes to support and scale with our large and growing operations and we believe we will make further significant progress in our remediation plan by the end of 2026. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to fully remediate the material weaknesses by such time. We may also continue to incur significant costs to execute various aspects of our remediation plans but cannot provide a reasonable estimate of such costs at this time.
Furthermore, we can provide no assurance that we have identified all material weaknesses. In the future, it is possible that additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies may be identified that we may be unable to remediate promptly. As our business matures and develops, we will also need to further develop our internal control systems and procedures to keep pace with our growth and successfully implement or scale improvements to our systems, processes, and controls in an efficient, timely and cost-effective manner. Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate because, among other reasons, they may not keep pace with our growth or the conditions in our business may change. Any future growth will continue to add complexity to our business. In order to evaluate and improve our internal controls over financial reporting, we will need to continue to incur substantial professional fees and internal costs for our accounting and finance functions, expend significant management efforts, and continue to implement, and validate through testing, plans developed to address areas that we have identified as requiring improvement.
If we are unable to successfully remediate our existing or any future material weaknesses, or identify any
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additional material weaknesses, the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting may be adversely affected, we may be unable to maintain compliance with securities law requirements regarding timely filing of periodic reports and applicable Nasdaq listing requirements, and investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting.
We are subject to complex tax laws, regulations and systems in numerous jurisdictions, including income, sales, value-added, dividend withholding, transaction and other taxes. During the ordinary course of our business, there are many activities, arrangements and transactions for which the ultimate tax analysis and determination is uncertain. Ambiguities, uncertainties, and changes in taxation, and arbitrary or inconsistent government action, including the application of tax laws and tax audits by regulatory authorities in the jurisdictions in which we operate, may materially adversely affect our future tax obligations and financial results.
Furthermore, due to the expanding scale of our international business activities and operations, any changes to the taxation of our activities could impact the tax treatment of our foreign earnings, increase our worldwide effective tax rate, increase the amount of taxes imposed on our business, and harm our financial position. The foregoing changes may also apply retroactively and result in taxes greater than the amounts estimated and reported in our financial statements.
Moreover, in connection with any potential future financing efforts, arrangements, acquisitions, or other strategic transactions, we may decide to restructure our corporate group or operations. Restructuring or reorganizing our operations may introduce additional operational and organizational complexity, and could give rise to further tax implications, including changes in the tax treatment of our activities, recognition of deferred tax liabilities, or other unintended tax consequences. Any of these factors could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, or prospects.
Our management must make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements, including with respect to the useful lives of our long-lived assets. Our estimates of useful lives of property, plant and equipment primarily relate to our server and network equipment, and to a lesser extent to the investments in infrastructure and our own-built data center facilities. Such estimates are based in part on our historical experience in operating assets of a similar nature, market inputs, if available, and multiple other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable.
We anticipate that depreciation and amortization expense will increase in absolute terms as we continue to invest in our technology infrastructure and data center facilities. Given our limited history of operations in respect of our current business, and the immature and evolving market in which we operate, our estimates of the useful lives of such assets may be subject to change. Our reported results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions.
We operate internationally and have experienced, and may continue to experience, gains and losses resulting from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The functional currency of our parent company, Nebius Group N.V., is the U.S. dollar, while the functional currency of our group’s other businesses is generally the respective local currency. Accordingly, fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates have a direct impact on how our international results of operations translate into U.S. dollars.
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The market price of our Class A shares has been and may continue to be volatile, particularly in light of the relatively early stage of the development of our businesses and immaturity of the industry in which we operate. The market price of our Class A shares depends on a number of factors, including those described in this “Risk Factors” section, some of which are beyond our control and/or unrelated to our operating performance or prospects.
Furthermore, on the back of current global macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty and disruption, the stock market, and the market for technology companies in particular, have recently experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have often been unconnected or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These effects have been particularly pronounced among companies active in the AI infrastructure sector, amidst substantial capital expenditures and intense public attention in this space. The market price of our Class A shares has been and may continue to be negatively impacted as a consequence of these conditions, regardless of our actual operating performance. Companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their shares have been subject to securities class action litigation. Securities litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and/or damages, and divert management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business.
The foregoing factors and fluctuations could cause our shareholders to lose all or part of their investments as they may not be able to resell their Class A shares at or above the price at which they acquired such shares.
In order to expand our businesses and invest in our future prospects, we may consider offering Class A shares and securities that are convertible into our Class A shares, and we may issue additional Class A shares in connection with acquisitions or joint ventures. If we sell additional Class A shares, the ownership interests of our existing shareholders will be diluted to the extent that they do not participate in such offering. We have also granted and will in the future grant equity awards to our employees, directors and consultants, which upon settlement will also dilute the interest of our current shareholders. In addition, although our articles of association do not currently authorize the issuance of preference shares, we may in the future seek shareholder approval for such shares in order to provide for flexibility in our future financing efforts. Any such preference shares may have rights senior to those our of Class A shares.
We issued convertible notes in June and September 2025 and March 2026, which are convertible into up to an aggregate of approximately 66 million Class A shares. If and when such notes are convertible, and if the holders elect to convert them and to sell, it could create downward pressure on our share price.
We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation and growth of our business and do not anticipate paying any dividends on our Class A shares in the foreseeable future. Additionally, our ability to pay dividends or make distributions may in the future be limited by certain restrictions in debt instruments we may decide to pursue. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their Class A shares after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments.
Our Class B shares carry ten votes per share and our Class A shares carry one vote per share. As of March 31, 2026, our CEO, directors, employees and other pre-IPO shareholders together held Class A and Class B shares carrying
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approximately 59% of the voting power of our ordinary shares; and a family trust established by our CEO held Class B shares carrying approximately 52% of the voting power of our ordinary shares (representing an approximately 11% economic interest in our company). To the extent these shareholders continue to hold a large percentage of our share capital and voting rights, they will remain in a position to control the election of the directors of our company and in other corporate actions that require shareholder approval.
Our Class A shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, and our Board relies upon the listing requirements and rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market to assist it in its determinations of director independence. Because Mr. Volozh beneficially holds approximately 52% of the voting control as of March 31, 2026 and holds greater than 50% of the voting power for election of directors, Nebius is a “Controlled Company” as defined by Rule 5615 of the Nasdaq Stock Market rules. As a Controlled Company, we may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the Nasdaq Stock Market, including:
While our Board currently includes a majority of independent directors and our audit and compensation committees consist solely of independent directors, Mr. Volozh is a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee. For so long as we remain a Controlled Company, we may take advantage of some or all of the exemptions to the independence requirements available to Controlled Companies. Nasdaq Stock Market’s independence standards are intended to ensure that directors who meet the criteria are free from conflicts of interest that could influence their decision-making. As a result, shareholders may not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that fully comply with all Nasdaq corporate governance requirements.
As a foreign private issuer whose shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, we are permitted in certain cases to follow Dutch corporate governance practices instead of the corresponding requirements of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. We follow Dutch corporate governance practices with regard to the quorum requirements applicable to meetings of shareholders and the provision of proxy statements for general meetings of shareholders. In accordance with Dutch law and generally accepted business practices, our articles of association do not provide quorum requirements generally applicable to general meetings of shareholders. Although we do provide shareholders with an agenda and other relevant documents for the general meeting of shareholders, Dutch law does not have a regulatory regime for the solicitation of proxies and the solicitation of proxies is not a generally accepted business practice in the Netherlands. Accordingly, our shareholders may not be afforded the same protection as provided under Nasdaq’s corporate governance rules.
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Our corporate affairs are governed by our articles of association and by the laws governing companies incorporated in the Netherlands. The responsibilities of members of our Board of Directors under Dutch law are different than under the laws of some U.S. jurisdictions. In the performance of its duties, our Board of Directors is required by Dutch law to consider the interests of the company and its group, its shareholders, its employees and other stakeholders and not only those of our shareholders. In addition, as a Dutch company, we are not required to solicit proxies or prepare proxy statements for general meetings of shareholders.
Furthermore, the rights of our shareholders are governed by Dutch law and our articles of association and differ from the rights of shareholders under U.S. law. For example, Dutch law does not grant appraisal rights to a company’s shareholders who wish to challenge the consideration to be paid upon a merger or consolidation of the company.
Based on certain management estimates with respect to our gross income and the average value of our gross assets and on the nature of our business, we believe that we were not a “passive foreign investment company,” or “PFIC”, for U.S. federal income tax purposes for the 2025 tax year, and do not expect to be a PFIC in the foreseeable future. Our PFIC status for any taxable year will depend on the composition of our income and assets and the value of our assets in such year, and because this is a factual determination made annually after the end of each taxable year and there are uncertainties in the application of the rules, there can be no assurance that we will not be considered a PFIC for the current taxable year or any future taxable year. In particular, the value of our assets may be determined in large part by reference to the market price of our Class A shares, which has fluctuated, and may continue to fluctuate, significantly. If we were to be treated as a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. holder held our Class A shares, certain adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences could apply to the U.S. holder.
Foreign private issuers are not required to comply with certain disclosure requirements that apply to U.S. domestic public companies. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of proxy statements. In addition, while we continue to qualify as a foreign private issuer, we are not required under the Exchange Act to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as U.S. domestic issuers, and we are not required to disclose in our periodic reports all of the information that U.S. domestic issuers are required to disclose. While we currently expect to continue to qualify as a foreign private issuer, we may cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer in the future, in which case we would incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur as a foreign private issuer that could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
We divested all our group’s businesses in Russia and related businesses in certain international markets in 2024. We do not have any customers, suppliers or business partners in Russia, own or hold any interest in any businesses or legal entities in Russia, or derive any revenues from Russia, and have undertaken a comprehensive operational, legal, HR and technical review of all aspects of our business to ensure that no legacy connections to Russia exist. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, our legacy could create challenges for our businesses, including more protracted client on-boarding and “know-your-customer” processes with counterparties and financial institutions.
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Our multiple-class share structure may discourage others from initiating any potential merger, takeover or other change-of-control transaction that our public shareholders may view as beneficial. Our articles of association also contain additional provisions that may have the effect of making a takeover of our company more difficult or less attractive, including:
The Dutch public offer rules, which impose substantive and procedural requirements in connection with the attempted takeover of a Dutch public company, only apply in the case of Dutch target companies that have shares listed on a regulated market within the European Union. We have not listed our shares, and do not expect to list our shares, on a regulated market within the European Union, and therefore these rules do not apply to any public offer for our Class A shares.
As a Dutch company, we are subject to the Dutch Corporate Governance Code, or “DCGC”. The DCGC contains both principles and best practice provisions for management boards, supervisory boards, shareholders and general meetings of shareholders, financial reporting, auditors, disclosure, compliance and enforcement standards. The DCGC applies to all Dutch companies listed on a government-recognized stock exchange, whether in the Netherlands or elsewhere, including the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The principles and best practice provisions apply to the board (in relation to role and composition, conflicts of interest and independence requirements, board committees and remuneration), shareholders and the general meeting of shareholders (for example, regarding anti-takeover protection and obligations of the company to provide information to its shareholders) and financial reporting (such as external auditor and internal audit requirements). The DCGC requires that companies either “comply or explain” any non-compliance and, in light of our compliance with Nasdaq requirements and as permitted by the DCGC, we have elected not to comply with all of the provisions of the DCGC. This may affect the rights of our shareholders who may not have the same level of protection as shareholders in a Dutch company that fully complies with the DCGC.
Most of our assets are located outside of the United States, our company is incorporated in the Netherlands, and some of our directors and most of our senior management are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult to serve process on us or persons within the United States. Although arbitration awards are generally enforceable in the Netherlands, investors should note that judgments obtained in the United States or in other foreign courts, including those with respect to U.S. federal securities law claims, may not be enforceable in the Netherlands. There is no mutual recognition treaty between the United States and the Netherlands, and no Dutch law provides for the recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgments. Therefore, it may be difficult to enforce any U.S. or other foreign court judgment obtained against our company, any of our operating subsidiaries or any of our directors in the Netherlands.
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We are committed to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) principles. The implementation of our sustainability and ESG-related objectives are overseen by our Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, coordinated by our group’s sustainability manager, and monitored by executive teams and management at the level of the individual business units.
Regulators, investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders are increasingly focused on sustainability matters, including climate change. There is also an increased focus on AI businesses and their impact on the environment, in particular with respect to the high power-demands involved and the reliance on critical materials. To address these goals and concerns, where possible, we plan to invest heavily in the energy efficiency of our infrastructure to reduce our environmental footprint. Furthermore, we plan to pursue opportunities to improve energy and water efficiency. For example, our data center in Finland features innovative free cooling and heat recovery systems, and hosts one of Europe’s most energy-efficient supercomputers. As a consequence of these and other initiatives, we intend to make progress towards reducing our environmental impact and global carbon footprint, meet our climate related commitments, as well as ensuring that our business remains viable in a low-carbon economy.
Pursuing these objectives may involve additional costs for conducting our business, which could adversely affect our financial position and results of operations. There is also a risk that our ESG and sustainability objectives will not be successful. A failure to meet our ESG goals, or significant controversy regarding these goals and how we achieve them, could adversely affect public perception of our business or customer, stakeholder or community support, which could result in a decline in the market price for our Class A shares.
We also may face potential governmental enforcement actions or private litigation challenging our ESG and sustainability goals, or our disclosure of those goals and our metrics for measuring achievement of them. New or changing regulation or public opinion regarding our ESG and sustainability goals or our actions to achieve them may result in adverse effects on our financial performance, reputation or demand for our services and products, or may otherwise result in obligations and liabilities that cannot be predicted or estimated at this time. We may also face conflicting and contradictory requirements in the Netherlands, U.S. and other relevant jurisdictions, and therefore face challenges in meeting competing demands and expectations.
There is some indication that ESG and sustainability goals are becoming more controversial, as some governmental entities in the U.S. and certain investor constituencies question the appropriateness of, or object to, ESG and sustainability initiatives. Some investors may use ESG-related factors to guide their investment strategies and may choose not to invest in us, a factor that would tend to reduce demand for our shares and possibly affect our share price adversely.
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Item 4. Information on the Company.
Overview
Nebius, a global AI cloud platform, delivers a unified full-stack AI cloud that spans the complete AI journey – from compute capacity to software and services that enable fast and efficient training and inference at scale. Founded around deep in-house technological expertise, Nebius offers a comprehensive and integrated suite of AI and ML cloud solutions, including both hardware and software built in-house. This combination of AI-optimized hardware and software enables us to deliver high-performance GPU compute clusters, storage, managed services, and advanced tools for AI model training and inference at enterprise-scale.
Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, Nebius Group offers one of the few global, at scale, multi-tenant clouds purpose built for AI, with a significant presence in Europe, the U.S., and other geographies around the world.
Nebius Group includes Nebius as well two distinct businesses that operate under separate brands: Avride, a leading developer of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, a leading edtech platform reskilling people for careers in tech.
Nebius Group also owns significant equity stakes in ClickHouse and Toloka, both of which have been spun out of the group.
Nebius: Full-stack AI cloud platform
Nebius provides a full-stack AI cloud - from silicon to software - encompassing data centers, in-house-designed infrastructure, and an integrated software layer with advanced tools to support any use case across the AI lifecycle, from data preparation and model training to inferencing and production deployments at scale.
Our platform is architected to serve the different types of workloads at any stage of scale or maturity of the underlying business. Nebius offers solutions for:
The foundation of our cloud is a highly efficient and sustainable hardware infrastructure layer that delivers scalable compute, storage, and networking resources engineered for high-performance AI workloads. We build our infrastructure from the ground up, designing servers and racks in-house, embedding innovation in the design of our data centers and developing software for workload orchestration and optimization. We believe this results in greater maximization of compute performance and lower customer Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The performance of our hardware is supported by our long-standing partnerships and collaboration with leading chipmakers and OEMs, such as NVIDIA, and a consistent track record of being one of the first-to-deploy the latest generation of NVIDIA GPU chips. Our designs optimize power and cooling efficiency, lower latency, and create seamless integration with our cloud platform. This improves our performance and reliability while also strengthening our value proposition by combining the reliability and user experience of a hyperscaler with the flexibility and efficiency of purpose-built AI infrastructure.
Built on top of this robust foundation is our proprietary, purpose-built AI cloud platform, which streamlines and accelerates AI development and deployment. We operate one of the few global, multi-tenant AI-specialized clouds on the market. We can quickly and efficiently provision compute resources on demand from a single node to thousands of nodes with high-performance storage GPU-to-GPU networking, and managed services, including advanced AI and ML tools. This global, multi-tenant architecture provides flexibility and ensures that customers can handle everything from small-scale experiments to large-scale enterprise-grade AI workloads – such as model pre-training, training and data pipelines, post-training/fine-tuning, and inference at enterprise-scale, without over-provisioning, adjusting resources dynamically to meet their evolving needs. Our cloud is designed to serve the needs of organizations of all sizes with built-in enterprise-grade observability, security and compliance.
As AI is rapidly becoming a general-purpose technology, we are well positioned to service customers from large enterprises, established software vendors, scaled AI companies and startups to research labs and individual developers building the next generation of AI models, applications and services. We believe they choose our platform for its flexibility, reliability, and comprehensive support for diverse AI workloads of all sizes. Our customers are building transformative applications across a diverse range of industries, such as physical AI, healthcare and life sciences and media and entertainment.
The following sections highlight the key layers of the Nebius full-stack platform.
Data Centers
Our team has decades of experience in developing capacity at scale. For this reason, we build our infrastructure from the ground up, designing servers and racks in-house and embedding innovation in the design of our data centers resulting in optimization of compute performance. The performance of our hardware is supported by our long-standing partnerships and collaboration with leading chipmakers and OEMs, such as NVIDIA, and a consistent track record of being one of the first-to-deploy the latest generation of NVIDIA GPU chips. We leverage our advanced data center design to enhance unit economics by reducing energy overheads, optimizing IT workload allocation, and lowering server maintenance costs. This design also improves utilization and helps to ensure seamless scalability at each site. We select data center sites based on access to power, existing industrial zoning, and alignment with local governments on delivering economic benefits to the region.
In 2025, we owned and operated a data center in Finland, signed a build-to-suit location in New Jersey and signed several co-location agreements in Kansas City, the UK, Israel, France and Iceland. In February 2026, we announced the expansion of our data center footprint to include nine additional sites across seven locations in the US (Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Minnesota) and Europe (France, UK) and the Middle East (Israel), bringing our total contracted power to more than 2 GW. The majority of this capacity will be deployed from data centers that we own and design internally.
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We operate four types of data centers:
Greenfield
We own the land and manage the power infrastructure, and our engineers design every aspect of the data center. This approach offers the greatest flexibility for optimizing energy efficiency and performance. Our Missouri and Finland data centers are greenfield facilities. Finland features what we believe to be one of the world’s leading power usage effectiveness (PUE) levels, employs an air-based free-cooling for high-density workloads that does not rely on external water intake. The site also integrates heat recovery, which has historically supplied up to two-thirds of local heating demand. In 2025 this system reused almost 20 GWh of server heat, contributing to an estimated 10% reduction in household heating costs. Similar cooling system designs will be implemented across new greenfield sites, such as Missouri and Alabama (announced in early 2026).
Brownfield
To accelerate speed to market, we also consider land that has existing assets already in place, including buildings, power facilities, and other structures. These sites provide additional opportunities to utilize our unique designs and generate optimal data center efficiency with faster time to market.
Build-to-suit
We may also partner with a developer who owns the land and has secured the power. Under such agreements Nebius would still provide custom specifications for the data-center buildout. This allows us to drive energy efficiency and infrastructure optimization within the facility. Our New Jersey facility follows a build-to-suit model.
Co-location
We lease capacity at existing data centers through third-party providers, enabling us to rapidly deploy compute resources. While we do not own these facilities, we apply rigorous selection criteria to ensure they meet our performance, reliability and scalability standards. Operational efficiencies are achieved through the deployment of our in-house-designed racks, optimizing power consumption. Locations of some of our current co-location sites include France, Iceland, UK, Israel, and Kansas City in the US.
Data center footprint
We have a broad data center footprint across Europe and the US. We primarily define our data center capacity in three ways:
Our preferred method of acquired capacity is through greenfield data centers, though we remain opportunistic with co-locations as this offers faster time-to-market capacity. We are actively exploring additional sites to significantly expand our capacity.
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We operate or are in-contract across more than 16 data center locations, including:
Europe and Middle East
United States
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Racks and Servers
Designing our servers and racks in-house gives us full control over server prototyping, production and deployment, which is a key factor in reducing operational costs, accelerating time-to-market and scaling AI infrastructure. Our servers are engineered to operate at temperatures up to 40°C (105°F), compared to the ASHRAE standard limit of 27°C (80°F). This makes air cooling sufficient to maintain optimal performance for the current generation of chips, even those with high thermal density. Beyond energy savings, our proprietary server firmware and toolless rack design simplify maintenance and repairs, so components can be replaced within minutes instead of hours, improving reliability and uptime and offering significant TCO gains for our customers. This also reduces staffing requirements, allowing one engineer to manage thousands of servers. Furthermore, our streamlined design enhances workplace safety, reducing risks associated with complex traditional server maintenance.
Our hardware stack consists of the following core components:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Built on top of this robust foundation are our proprietary, purpose-built IaaS solutions for AI-native workloads. We operate one of the few global, multi-tenant AI clouds on the market. We can quickly and efficiently provision compute resources on demand from a single node to thousands. Embedded orchestration across resource usage enables efficient scaling and fewer performance bottlenecks supported by a unified control plane, enabling efficient scaling of distributed training and inference workloads. Our cloud is designed to serve the needs of large organizations by embedding enterprise-grade security and governance functionality. Teams across DevOps, IT Operations and Platform Engineering operate in this layer. Key capabilities include:
This global, multi-tenant, virtual architecture provides flexibility and ensures that customers can have quick and easy access to AI-optimized compute resources and handle everything from small-scale experiments to enterprise-grade AI workloads – such as data preparation, model pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference at enterprise-scale, without over-provisioning, adjusting resources dynamically to meet their evolving needs.
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This AI-optimized IaaS layer provides the foundation for higher-level software capabilities, enabling customers to move from infrastructure provisioning to model development and deployment without managing the underlying hardware.
Machine-learning operations (MLOps) layer
On top of this virtual infrastructure, the MLOps functionality streamlines the entire machine-learning lifecycle, from data preparation, pre-training and post-training/fine-tuning, as well as serving models, offering complete choice for users, depending on the requirements of their use case and infrastructure control. By integrating model optimization and deployment workflows, the MLOps layer reduces time-to-production and enables efficient transition from experimentation to live environments. Data Scientists, ML Researchers and ML Engineers can schedule jobs and deploy applications to align with their own workflows and tooling, at various levels of infrastructure expertise. It includes:
Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) layer
We also natively integrate a set of features that address the needs of AI Engineers and Product Managers that require less infrastructure complexity to easily serve and fine-tune models in production, at scale. This enables easy access to existing open source and commercial models. Our AIOps layer supports the deployment and operation of AI systems in production, abstracting infrastructure complexity while providing performance, reliability, and governance. These layers are natively integrated into our platform to enable customers to move from infrastructure provisioning to model development and into production deployment within a single platform. Such solutions include:
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Enterprise Platform
Our cloud is designed to serve the needs of any type of organization by embedding enterprise-grade security and governance functionality. Our multi-tenant cloud platform provides a unified control layer that enables customers to securely access, consume, manage, and operate AI workloads at scale. It integrates self-service interfaces, enterprise-grade security and compliance, cost visibility and resource controls, and robust operational capabilities to ensure reliability and performance across the full AI lifecycle. Our enterprise platform includes:
Customers and Go-to-Market Strategy
Our primary customers today range from large enterprises, established software vendors, scaled AI companies and startups to research labs and individual developers building the next generation of AI models, applications and services. We believe they choose our platform for its flexibility, reliability, and comprehensive support for diverse AI workloads of all sizes. Our customers are building transformative applications across a diverse range of customer segments and industries.
With respect to our go-to-market efforts, we have made and continue to make significant investments in our sales and marketing functions to expand our customer base and build our brand recognition. Our direct sales and channel teams continue to scale, supported by growing pre-sales and post-sales teams that seek to ensure customer success from initial engagement through deployment. This includes dedicated system architects who lead proofs-of-concept and accelerate onboarding, as well as robust ongoing technical and engineering support.
We plan to strategically focus our sales and go-to-market organization build out targeting a number of key enterprise verticals that represent end markets that are already seeing early traction in AI adoption and have the potential for long-term value creation. We see attractive opportunities in growing our footprint in physical AI, healthcare and life sciences and media and entertainment, as well as retail and e-commerce and financial services.
Below we provide more details on our key target customer segments:
Enterprise Customers
These include mid-market and larger enterprises that plan to use AI to drive efficiencies and optimized results within their organization. Use cases can range from in-house model development and fine-tuning to the deployment and inferencing of open-source AI models. We anticipate that the scale of deployments from enterprise customers and related compute requirements, in particular inference workloads, will grow substantially over time as AI models become more widely available and cost effective to deploy in production systems.
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Software Vendors
These companies include technology firms that are adopting AI to enhance an existing suite of software services, or to develop new products and applications that harness the power of our AI cloud platform to generate new sources of revenue and heightened efficiency. Our business with software vendors has already started to scale rapidly, for both training and inference workloads, as these customers have already started taking the next step from model building to application deployments at enterprise-scale.
AI-Native Tech Companies
These are generally VC-backed AI-native technology companies that are building AI-specific solutions and need a full-stack AI cloud service that is flexible, scalable, and able to meet their AI workload needs. The AI workloads that these customers run with Nebius include training, fine-tuning and inferencing using both proprietary and open-source models. Typically, these customers make use of a range of different products and services that are available on our platform, including managed services for workload management and orchestration as well as MLOps tools. This customer segment also includes independent developers and researchers who are able to access our AI cloud platform via our self-service offering, which provides instant access to GPUs on demand.
AI Labs
These companies are at the forefront of AI research and development and require massive, scalable compute infrastructure to support the training, fine-tuning and deployment of large-scale AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) that utilize hundreds of billions or trillions of parameters. Their workloads are computationally intensive, demanding high-performance GPUs, low-latency networking and distributed storage solutions to process vast datasets efficiently.
Hyperscaler Contracts
AI hyperscalers represent important large scale customers for AI compute capacity. The purchasing behavior of these industry-leading technology companies (some of which may offer competing solutions to our AI cloud) differs from our primary customer base and may not include our primary AI cloud services. We may engage in such customer contracts when the supply conditions and economic terms are in the best interests of the company. In 2025 and early 2026, we secured significant long-term committed contracts with two large hyperscalers, Microsoft and Meta. These multi-year, multi-billion dollar agreements offered attractive economics and financing terms, which enabled us to invest in and grow our core AI cloud business.
Other businesses and equity stakes
Avride
Avride is a developer of autonomous driving technology for self-driving cars and delivery robots for use-cases across ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, food and grocery delivery. The company’s main operations are in Austin, Texas, with additional R&D hubs in Europe, Israel and South Korea.
In 2024, Avride signed a multiyear partnership with Uber to deploy its autonomous vehicles and delivery robots for Uber and Uber Eats in the US. As part of this collaboration, Uber Eats launched delivery services utilizing Avride’s sidewalk robots in Austin and Dallas, TX, in 2024, with further expansion to Jersey City, NJ, in February 2025. The partnership also encompasses autonomous vehicle solutions, which launched commercially on the Uber ride-hailing platform in Dallas in December 2025.
Avride has also partnered with Grubhub, deploying its sidewalk robots for last-mile deliveries at the Ohio State University campus. Within the first month of deployment, the number of daily deliveries reached approximately 1,200. In September 2025, Avride also launched campus service at The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Avride continues to expand its presence beyond campuses and food delivery to include use cases in supermarkets at H-E-B and, in Japan, the company is providing autonomous retail logistics deliveries for Mitsui Fudosan at the country’s largest outlet mall.
Core to Avride’s growth and distribution strategy is expanding the partner network. During 2025, Avride onboarded Shake Shack, Wendy’s, and White Castle, and signed commercial agreements with Uber Eats and Grubhub to utilize those distribution platforms.
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In March 2025, Avride entered a strategic partnership with Hyundai for the joint development of an autonomous driving platform and the expansion of its fleet. As part of this collaboration, Avride will initially deploy 100 Hyundai Ioniq 5 SUVs retrofitted with autonomous driving technology in the near-term, with plans for further fleet expansion.
In October 2025, Avride announced a strategic partnership with Uber. Under the agreement, both Uber and Nebius will make strategic investments and other commitments of up to $375 million in Avride. This investment accelerates Avride’s capacity to advance its autonomous technology, continue building its fleet of vehicles, and expand its coverage map.
We are actively exploring further third-party investment into Avride, including transactions in which we may cede control.
TripleTen
TripleTen is an edtech platform focused on reskilling individuals for careers in technology and driving broader AI education. As of December 31, 2025, the company offered seven immersive program tracks – AI / Machine Learning, AI Automation, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Quality Assurance, AI Software Engineering, and UX/UI design – principally in the US and Latin America. In September 2025, the company expanded the offerings of Nebius Academy as a B2B solution that helps companies and large organizations educate their workforces.
TripleTen operates on a proprietary tech stack and automated platform that enables scalable course development, localization, and expansion at minimal incremental cost.
Material Equity Stakes
In addition to our core AI cloud and other businesses, we own equity stakes in both ClickHouse and Toloka, two businesses that were both created and developed by our in-house engineering teams and spun out from the group.
We hold a significant minority stake in ClickHouse, an open-source, column-oriented, database management system provider that was spun off from the group in September 2021.
We also hold a significant equity stake in Toloka, a leading data provider for LLM and GenAI developers, which was spun off from the group in May 2025.
Competition
The markets that we target are highly competitive and rapidly changing. Given the current pace of innovation and technological advancement, we anticipate continued high levels of competition in the industry.
As a full-stack AI cloud provider, we face competition from cloud computing providers that are scaling AI-specific offerings, such as Amazon (AWS), Google (Google Cloud Platform), Microsoft (Azure) and Oracle.
Given the breadth of our services, we also face different competitors across the AI cloud stack. For example, on the compute layer, we see other AI-centric providers offering bare-metal GPU clusters and GPU-centric data center operations. This group of competitors includes CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Lambda Labs, among others. Solutions such as Token Factory may face competition from AI-native inference-as-a-service solutions such as Fireworks AI and Together AI.
We believe that our core competitive advantages include:
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The other businesses within the group also face their own competitors in the markets in which they compete. For example, Avride competes with other major developers of self-driving technologies, including Waymo, Zoox, and others. TripleTen primarily competes with a number of US-based education technology bootcamp providers.
Employees and workforce culture
As of December 31, 2025, Nebius had approximately 1,500 employees, the majority of whom are engineers.
Talent is the foundation of our business, and we have historically built our products around people. Our full-stack AI cloud offering is a direct result of the expertise in our team across domains including data-center construction and operations, hardware engineering and R&D, cloud solutions development, AI and ML engineering, backed by experienced business development and management professionals.
Our HR approach is built on our principles of fairness, transparency and compliance with local labor regulations across all our global locations.
Nebius offers competitive compensation packages in line with industry standards. We aim to promote professional growth and high performance, and to support employee wellbeing. We offer flexible working arrangements, including remote working options, as well as mental health support services. Our benefits program is designed to support both short-term and long-term employee needs, including meal and transportation allowances, home-office support for remote employees, and healthcare plans.
Commitment to sustainability
Sustainability is at the core of our business, enhancing efficiency, reliability and affordability while reducing environmental impact. We integrate responsible practices across our operations and technology stack to align growth with resource management with long-term community benefit. Alongside building AI cloud that delivers maximum performance per watt, we prioritize supporting the communities where we operate through a growing set of initiatives across education partnerships, training programs and access to compute resources for academia and research.
Our sustainability efforts focus on three key areas: sustainable computing, empowerment through technology, and reliability and security.
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Sustainable Computing
As AI workloads scale and demand for compute grows, we focus on driving efficiency across the entire technology stack – from hardware and data center systems to software tools for workload orchestration and optimization – to optimize resource use. This enhances infrastructure reliability, results in economic benefits for both our business and our customers, and reduces environmental impact.
Empowerment through Technology
We leverage our full-stack AI infrastructure and expertise to support innovators, researchers and organizations developing next-generation technologies, while helping individuals build the skills required in an AI-driven economy. Our cloud platform enables advanced AI workloads across high-impact domains such as healthcare, life sciences and robotics, supporting applications in areas including genomics, drug discovery, precision diagnostics and autonomous systems. For example, our infrastructure has been used by companies such as Prima Mente, which trained Pleiades, a large-scale epigenetic foundation model, enabling analysis of DNA methylation patterns for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
We also support early-stage innovation through targeted programs. In 2025, we launched the AI Discovery Award, providing GPU credits to startups working on areas such as cancer prediction, protein targeting, transcriptomic mapping and precision diagnostics, with the aim of accelerating high-impact research and fostering collaboration between startups and investors.
Through Nebius Academy, our AI education platform for researchers and engineers, we provide training, certifications and academic partnerships designed to equip participants with practical skills in data science, machine learning and generative AI. These programs are complemented by initiatives we are developing to expand access to AI resources, including cloud grants and compute access for academic and research institutions.
Our approach also extends to the communities where we operate. Throughout 2025, we have been engaging with local stakeholders to understand community priorities, with the objective of delivering sustained, long-term local benefits alongside infrastructure development. Our community engagement plan includes building local partnerships with educational institutions and training providers, offering AI literacy and workforce development programs, and prioritizing local hiring and skills development where possible.
Reliability and Security
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of information security and operational resilience. Our services adhere to stringent security certifications, and we work to establish a comprehensive array of safety controls in our pioneering work with autonomous technologies.
More details on our sustainability initiatives can be found at nebius.com/sustainability.
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History and Development of the Company; Organizational Structure
Nebius Group N.V. is a Dutch public company with limited liability. The registered office is at Schiphol Boulevard 165, 1118 BG, Schiphol, The Netherlands. Nebius’s Class A ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol NBIS.
In July 2024, we completed the divestment of all our group’s businesses in Russia and related businesses in certain international markets. The divested businesses constituted more than 95% of the group’s consolidated revenues, assets and employees at that time. Following the divestment, the group continues to be headquartered in Amsterdam, with principal operations in Europe, the US and Israel. Trading in our shares resumed on October 21, 2024, following the completion of the divestment.
Nebius Group N.V. is the holding company of the group. Our principal operating subsidiaries are Nebius B.V., Nebius Inc. and EdTech Plus B.V.
Item 4A. Unresolved Staff Comments.
None.
Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects.
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report. In addition to historical information, this discussion contains forward-looking statements based on our current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth in the “Risk Factors” and “Forward Looking Statements” sections and elsewhere in this Annual Report. The historical results described below relate to the results of our continuing operations.
Nebius, a global AI cloud platform, delivers a unified full-stack AI cloud that spans the complete AI journey – from compute capacity to software and services – that enable fast and efficient training and inference at scale. Founded around deep in-house technological expertise, Nebius offers a comprehensive and integrated suite of AI and ML cloud solutions, including both hardware and software built in-house. This combination of AI-optimized hardware and software enables us to deliver high-performance GPU compute clusters, storage, managed services, and advanced tools for AI model training and inference at enterprise-scale.
Nebius Group includes Nebius as well as two distinct businesses that operate under separate brands: Avride, a leading developer of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, a leading edtech platform focused on reskilling people for careers in tech.
We believe the most significant factors that affect our businesses are the following:
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Refer to “Risk Factors” (Part I, Item 3 of this Annual Report) for a discussion of these factors and other risks.
Operating Segments
Our primary business, Nebius, delivers a unified full-stack AI cloud platform that spans the complete AI journey – from compute capacity to software and services that enable fast and efficient AI application deployment and inference at scale. Founded around deep in-house technological expertise, our platform offers a comprehensive and integrated suite of AI cloud solutions, including both hardware and software built in-house, designed to support the entire AI lifecycle - from silicon to software. This combination of AI-optimized hardware and software enables us to deliver high-performance GPU compute clusters, storage, managed services, and advanced tools for AI model training, application building and deployment, and inference at enterprise-scale.
In addition to our core Nebius cloud business, Nebius Group also holds two distinct businesses that operate under separate brands:
Starting the second quarter of 2025, the Company introduced the following changes to the segments under which it previously reported financial results:
Toloka, an AI development platform, previously constituted an operating segment within the Group. In May 2025, following the completion of a third-party investment in Toloka, Nebius ceased to hold majority voting power in Toloka and no longer includes Toloka’s results in Nebius’s consolidated financial statements; we now report our stake as an equity method investment. Comparative financial information appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report has been recast to reflect the results of Toloka within discontinued operations.
Key Trends Impacting Our Results of Operations
The key factors affecting our results of operations include the current geopolitical and macroeconomic environment (including geopolitical conflicts and the potential impact of tariffs and other trade restrictions), the current demand-supply imbalance of GPUs, supply chain constraints in semiconductor and data center components, high competition for power as well as engineering talent and data center personnel, access to investment capital, inflationary pressures, and regulatory shifts impacting the technology and AI infrastructure sectors. These factors can influence our cost base, capacity expansion plans, capital expenditures and overall market demand. During the year ended December 31, 2025, these factors outlined above did not have a meaningful impact on our financial results.
We anticipate that our results of operations will continue to be significantly affected by the level of expenditures we incur to expand our compute capacity, the cost of capital available to us to finance this growth, and the pricing and supply/demand dynamics in our competitive and rapidly evolving industry.
Additionally, in 2025 and early 2026, we signed strategic, long-term contracts to provide capacity to Microsoft and Meta. Our ability to provide capacity to these customers will be critical to our operating and financial performance as we fulfill our obligations to these customers over the life of contracts (five years).
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
Our core AI cloud business generates revenue by providing our customers with a comprehensive and integrated AI cloud platform, underpinned by high-performance GPU compute capacity, storage, and networking resources, as well as value-add software solutions. The core AI cloud business is designed to support the entire AI lifecycle - from building and deploying AI models, to managing large-scale AI applications and producing inference tokens. Revenue from the cloud platform is recognized as services are provided in accordance with customer contract due dates and the applicable contract model. We offer both on-demand “pay-as-you-go” pricing and fixed “reserved capacity” contracts.
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TripleTen generates revenue from educational services to individual customers (students) through boot camps and project-based learning opportunities by providing online educational products.
Avride has made only a limited contribution to the total revenue to date.
Operating costs and expenses
We classify operating costs and expenses as follows: cost of revenues; product development; sales, general and administrative; and depreciation and amortization.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues primarily consists of costs of operation and co-location of data center facilities, the electricity, utility and maintenance costs in data centers, personnel costs, payment processing and students’ tuition fees and other related expenses. The group’s owned Finland data center together with rented data center facilities and co-location agreements are significant components of the group’s cost of revenues.
Product development
Product development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs incurred for the development of, enhancement to and maintenance of the group’s technology platforms, from infrastructure to software. Product development expenses also include rent and utilities attributable to office spaces occupied by development staff.
Sales, general and administrative
Sales, general and administrative expenses include expenses for personnel engaged in sales and promotion of products to the market, or performing general or administrative functions, including share-based compensation expenses; rental of office space and related utilities in proportion to the number of employees performing these functions; training and hiring expenses; advertising and marketing expenses, including the costs of organizing promotions; legal and audit services; and other expenses related to the group’s wider operating activities.
Depreciation and amortization
Depreciation and amortization expenses relates to the depreciation of property and equipment, mainly servers and networking equipment, data center related infrastructure equipment and office furniture, and the amortization of intangible assets.
Share-based compensation
In the consolidated statements of operations, share-based compensation expense is recorded in the same functional area as the expense for the recipient’s cash compensation. As a result, share-based compensation expense is allocated among the cost of revenues; product development expenses; and sales, general and administrative expenses.
Interest income
Interest income is mainly generated from short-term bank deposits and cash account balances.
Interest expense
Interest expense primarily consists of contractual interest and the amortization of debt discounts and issuance costs associated with our outstanding debt obligations. It also includes interest accretion related to significant financing components arising from differences between the timing of the transfer of goods or services to customers and the timing of customer payments. Interest expense is reflected net of capitalized interest.
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Gain from revaluation of investments in equity securities
Gain from revaluation of investments in equity securities includes primarily the remeasurement of our investment in ClickHouse, following a third-party investment in that company.
Income / (loss) from equity method investments
Income / (loss) from equity method investments includes the results of Toloka, which was deconsolidated in the second quarter of 2025 and subsequently accounted for under the equity method, and minor stakes in venture capital funds.
Other income / (loss), net
Other income / (loss), net consists of gains from investments in money market funds and foreign exchange gains and losses. Dynamics of foreign exchange gains and losses reflect changes in the U.S. dollar value (the group’s reporting currency) of monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in other currencies (primarily the euro), as well as changes in the functional currencies of foreign subsidiaries' monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in currencies different from their respective local currencies.
Results of Operations
The following table presents our historical consolidated results of continuing operations for the periods indicated:
Year ended December 31,
2023
2024
2025
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
Revenues
9.8
91.5
529.8
Operating costs and expenses:
Cost of revenues
19.6
43.7
166.2
87.1
114.8
177.3
159.5
255.5
380.1
29.3
77.1
417.9
Total operating costs and expenses
295.5
491.1
1,141.5
Loss from operations
(285.7)
(399.6)
(611.7)
3.3
63.6
31.8
—
(61.5)
598.9
(10.9)
0.4
(24.3)
(3.7)
(17.4)
80.6
Net income / (loss) before income taxes
(297.0)
(353.0)
13.8
Income tax expense / (benefit)
2.0
(1.0)
4.0
Net income / (loss) from continuing operations
(299.0)
(352.0)
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Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025
The table below presents information about the revenues of the reportable segments:
Year on year growth
2023 to 2024
2024 to 2025
(as a percentage, %)
Nebius
9.6
68.3
480.3
611
%
603
0.3
1.3
n/m
333
8.2
28.8
54.1
251
Total segment revenues
17.8
97.4
535.7
447
450
Eliminations
(8.0)
(5.9)
(26)
Total revenues
834
479
Eliminations represent the elimination of transactions between the reportable segments, such as use of our Nebius cloud platform by other segments within the group.
Revenues by reportable segment:
Total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $438.3 million, or 479%, from $91.5 million in 2024 to $529.8 million in 2025. This increase was predominantly driven by the revenues generated by our core AI cloud business, Nebius, and to a lesser extent, growth in TripleTen.
Total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $81.7 million, or 834%, from $9.8 million in 2023 to $91.5 million in 2024.
Avride made only a limited contribution to the total revenue for the group during both periods.
Operating Costs and Expenses
Changes
123
280
as a percentage of revenues
200
as a percentage of operating costs and expenses
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Cost of revenues for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $122.5 million, or 280%, from $43.7 million in 2024 to $166.2 million in 2025. The increase was primarily driven by the expansion of our Nebius AI cloud business, including a $87.4 million increase of expenses related to co-location arrangements and operating lease agreements as we scaled our infrastructure capacity, a $21.7 million increase in outsource services and data center utilities, and a $7.2 million increase in personnel-related expenses due to additional hiring to support the growth of data center operations.
Cost of revenues for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $24.1 million, or 123%, from $19.6 million in 2023 to $43.7 million in 2024. The increase was due to the expansion of our Nebius AI cloud business. Growth accelerated in the second half of 2024, after we completed the material divestment transaction in 2024, as we were then able to increase our data center capacities in the form of co-location agreements and hiring of additional personnel.
Avride and TripleTen businesses made limited contribution to the overall increase in cost of revenues in both periods.
Product Development Expenses
Product development expenses
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Product development expenses for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $62.5 million, or 54%, from $114.8 million in 2024 to $177.3 million in 2025. The increase was primarily due to an increase in headcount of personnel engaged in product development activities from 653 to 813.
Product development expenses for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $27.7 million, or 32%, from $87.1 million in 2023 to $114.8 million in 2024. The increase was primarily due to an increase in headcount of personnel engaged in product development activities.
Sales, General and Administrative Expenses
Sales, general and administrative expenses
60
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Sales, general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $124.6 million, or 49%, from $255.5 million in 2024 to $380.1 million in 2025. This increase was primarily due to a $28.3 million increase in personnel-related expenses, primarily reflecting higher salary expense and business travel costs associated with increased headcount, a $27.8 million increase in advertising and marketing expenses and a $21.4 million increase in share-based compensation expenses allocated to personnel engaged in sales, general and administrative activities. The increase also included a one-time, non-recurring expense of $43.6 million related to equipment loss during transportation. These increases were partially offset by a $20.5 million decrease in consulting, legal and other professional fees.
Sales, general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $96.0 million, or 60%, from $159.5 million in 2023 to $255.5 million in 2024. This increase is primarily due to an increase of $61.7 million in consultancy, legal and professional fees which were incremental to our main operating activities, and related to the public launch of Nebius Group and the divestment transaction. The increase of $37.0 million in share-based compensation expense allocated to personnel engaged in sales, general and administrative activities was the second largest contributor to the growth, followed by a $7.4 million increase in advertising and marketing expenses, partially offset by a $10.4 million decrease in office and recruitment expenses.
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Depreciation and Amortization Expenses
Depreciation and amortization expenses
163
442
Depreciation and amortization expenses for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $340.8 million, or 442%, from $77.1 million in 2024 to $417.9 million in 2025. Depreciation and amortization expenses for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $47.8 million, or 163%, from $29.3 million in 2023 to $77.1 million in 2024. The increases in both periods were primarily attributable to higher depreciation expenses related to server and network equipment and infrastructure systems, reflecting the expansion of our data center footprint and GPU capacity in our AI cloud business, Nebius.
Share-based Compensation
Share‑based compensation expense included within:
0.2
0.5
150
20.9
16.6
(54)
73
7.7
44.7
66.1
481
Total share‑based compensation expense
54.5
83.2
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Share-based compensation expense for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $28.7 million, or 53%, from $54.5 million in 2024 to $83.2 million in 2025. The increase was primarily attributable to growth in total headcount, the impact of restricted share units (“RSUs”) granted under the company’s equity incentive program in the second half of 2024, and grants of share options in 2025 to the Group’s senior management, including one executive director.
Share-based compensation expense for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased by $25.7 million, or 89%, from $28.8 million in 2023 to $54.5 million in 2024. The increase was due to the awards of RSUs granted under the company’s equity incentive program in 2024, following a period of more than two years during which no grants had been made.
See Note 14 — “Share-based compensation” of the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Interest Income
(50)
Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2025 decreased from $63.6 million in 2024 to $31.8 million in 2025. The decrease was primarily attributable to the reallocation of excess cash into money market funds as part of our cash management strategy, resulting in reduced amounts invested in traditional interest-bearing financial instruments.
Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased from $3.3 million in 2023 to $63.6 million in 2024. After the completion of the divestment, we placed a substantial portion of the proceeds in highly liquid, interest-bearing financial instruments.
Interest Expense
Interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $61.5 million. The amount was primarily attributable to contractual interest and the amortization of debt discount associated with the convertible notes issued in June and September 2025, net of interest capitalized in a total amount of $52.6 million for the year. Interest expense also included $4.5 million of interest accretion related to the significant financing component associated with prepayments received under strategic customer contracts.
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No interest expense was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024.
Gain from Revaluation of Investments in Equity Securities
Gain from revaluation of investments in equity securities for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $598.9 million. The gain was attributable to the remeasurement of our investments in ClickHouse Inc. and other smaller investments, resulting in gains of $597.4 million and $1.5 million, respectively. The revaluation was based on observable price changes resulting from third-party investments in these entities during the period.
In January 2026, ClickHouse completed a Series D convertible preferred stock financing (the “Series D Financing”) raising $400 million at a valuation of approximately $15 billion. The Series D Financing represents an observable price change in an orderly transaction involving equity securities of the same issuer that are similar to our investment. Accordingly, pursuant to ASC 321, we will remeasure the fair value of our investment in ClickHouse as of the transaction date and will present the results of such remeasurement in the unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations for the quarter ending March 31, 2026.
No revaluation gains or losses were recognized for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024.
Income/(Loss) from Equity Method Investments
Income/(loss) from equity method investments
Loss from equity method investments was $24.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2025. The loss primarily reflects our share of losses related to our remaining interest in Toloka, which was deconsolidated in the second quarter of 2025 and subsequently accounted for under the equity method. The loss was partially offset by income recognized from cash distributions received from our minority interests in venture capital funds.
Income from equity method investments was $0.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. The income primarily represents cash distributions received from our investments in venture capital funds.
Loss from equity method investments was $10.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The loss primarily reflects impairment charges related to our investments in venture capital funds, as well as our share of net losses from equity method investees.
See Note 5 — “Investments in equity securities and equity investments” of the consolidated financial statements for more information.
Other Income / (Loss), net
Foreign currency exchange gain / (loss), net
(2.4)
(17.8)
27.2
642%
Gain from investments in money market funds
0.8
55.2
(1.3)
(0.4)
(1.8)
(69)%
350%
Total other income / (loss), net
370%
Other income, net was $80.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025. The amount primarily consisted of gains from investments in money market funds of $55.2 million, reflecting returns generated on excess cash that we began investing in such funds during 2025 as part of our cash management strategy. The amount also included foreign exchange gains of $27.2 million, primarily attributable to favorable movements in currency exchange rates during 2025.
Total other loss, net was $17.4 million and $3.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. The amounts primarily consisted of foreign exchange losses.
Foreign exchange gain/(loss) dynamics reflect changes in the U.S. dollar value (the Group’s reporting currency) of monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in other currencies, as well as changes in the functional currencies of foreign subsidiaries' monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in currencies different from their respective local currencies.
Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) by reportable segments
Our management uses Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) as a financial measure of performance of our businesses. Adjusted EBITDA (loss) means U.S. GAAP net income/(loss) from continuing operations before (1) depreciation and amortization, (2) certain SBC expense1, (3) one-off restructuring and other expenses2, (4) interest income, (5) interest expense, (6) income/(loss) from equity method investments, (7) gain from revaluation of investments in equity securities, (8) other income/(loss), net, (9) income tax expense/(benefit). For a reconciliation between total Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) and net income / (loss) before income taxes see Note 15 — “Information about segments & geographic areas” of the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
1 We settled certain RSU equity awards granted to employees prior to 2022 in cash during 2023 and 2024. As a result, a portion of stock-based compensation expense for 2023 and 2024 was included in Adjusted EBITDA/(loss). There were no cash settlements in 2025, as such, we excluded the entire amount of stock-based compensation expense from Adjusted EBITDA/(loss).
2 One-off restructuring and other expenses primarily include costs related to the divestment transaction in 2023 and 2024 and equipment loss during transportation in 2025.
The table below presents information about the Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) of the reportable segments:
(134.1)
(128.5)
59.0
(69.6)
(67.0)
(82.7)
(37.0)
(30.8)
(41.2)
Total segment adjusted EBITDA loss
(240.7)
(226.3)
(64.9)
Adjusted EBITDA loss by reportable segments:
Total segment Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) for the group for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 was $240.7 million, $226.3 million and $64.9 million, respectively.
Adjusted EBITDA for the Nebius business was $59.0 million in 2025 compared to an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $128.5 million in 2024. The significant improvement was primarily driven by revenue growth of more than 600%, partially offset by corresponding increases in cost of revenues and sales, general and administrative expenses. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the Nebius business improved by $5.6 million in 2024 compared to 2023 due to revenue growth, partially offset by increase in cost of revenue and sales, general and administrative expenses.
Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) of Avride increased by $15.7 million in 2025 compared to 2024 primarily due to higher operating expenses associated with business expansion and development initiatives. Adjusted EBITDA loss of Avride improved by $2.6 million in 2024 compared to 2023 primarily due to a reduction in sales, general and administrative expenses.
Adjusted EBITDA / (loss) of TripleTen increased by $10.4 million in 2025 compared to 2024 primarily due to targeted investments in the expansion of its customer base during the first half of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA loss of TripleTen improved by $6.2 million in 2024 compared to 2023, primarily driven by revenue growth.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The group’s principal sources of liquidity to date are a combination of equity and debt financing, including convertible notes issued in June 2025 and September 2025, a public equity offering completed in September 2025 and advances received from strategic customer contracts. In November 2025, we established an at-the-market equity program covering up to 25 million Class A shares, enabling us to access equity funding on an ongoing basis. We have not used the program to date.
Before 2025, the Group’s principal source of liquidity was the cash consideration received in connection with the divestment completed in 2024.
As of December 31, 2025, $3,678.1 million was recorded in cash and cash equivalents. Cash equivalents mainly consist of bank deposits with original maturities of three months or fewer and investments in money market funds.
The group’s main cash outflows are as follows: acquisitions of server and infrastructure equipment, investments in construction of new capacities at our proprietary data center in Finland, in build-to-suit facilities and in new greenfield sites (including land acquisition), lease payments for co-location agreements and other general corporate activities. Our
businesses expect to fund their operations, to the extent required, through debt or equity financing, as well as achieve positive operating cash flow.
Contractual Obligations
We have various contractual obligations and commitments, such as long-term leases, purchase commitments and long-term debt, that are disclosed in the footnotes to the consolidated financial statements.
See Note 8 — “Leases” and Note 11 — “Commitments and Contingencies” of the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for more information on our lease contracts, including leases not yet commenced, and purchase commitments and other non-cancellable purchase obligations.
Cash Flows
Set out below is a summary of cash flows from continuing operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities
(222.0)
(269.9)
401.9
Net cash (used in)/provided by investing activities
(92.9)
672.0
(4,229.2)
Net cash provided by financing activities
656.8
5,125.5
Cash flows (used in)/provided by operating activities.
Our primary source of cash from operating activities is cash collections from sales to our customers. Cash used in operating activities primarily consists of payments to employees and payments for operating expenses, including rent and utilities, payments to suppliers for professional and other services, and other general corporate expenditures.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, net cash provided by operating activities was $401.9 million. The increase mainly resulted from advances received from customers under strategic customer agreements in amount of $982.5 million and changes in working capital reflecting improved operating margins in our Nebius AI cloud business. This was offset by changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily driven by increases in accounts receivable, VAT receivable, and other assets.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, net cash used in operating activities was $269.9 million. Changes in operating assets and liabilities resulted in a net cash outflow of $72.4 million, primarily due to changes in interest receivable, accounts payable, other accrued liabilities, and prepaid expenses.
Cash flows (used in)/provided by investing activities.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, net cash used in investing activities was $4,229.2 million. The amount was primarily related to purchases of property and equipment of $4,066.0 million, investments in term deposits of $75.0 million, and cash paid for equity securities of ClickHouse and Toloka of $50.0 million and $42.7 million, respectively, partially offset by $4.5 million of net cash provided by other investing activities.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, net cash provided by investing activities was $672.0 million. The amount primarily consisted of the net proceeds from the divestment in the aggregate amount of $1,467.4 million, including the effect of the deconsolidation of the Group’s former subsidiaries, partially offset by purchases of property and equipment in amount of $807.5 million.
Cash received for the divestment consisted of $2,458.1 million received at the first closing in May 2024 and $184.2 million received at the second closing in July 2024 (see Note 3 — “Acquisitions, Disposals and Discontinued Operations” of the consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report). As a result of the divestment, we deconsolidated $1,174.9 million in cash and cash equivalents related to discontinued operations as of the date of the first closing.
For the year ended December 31, 2023, net cash used in investing activities was $92.9 million. The amount primarily consisted of purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets of $82.9 million and investments in debt securities of $10.0 million.
The table below presents information about our purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets:
Purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets
82.9
807.5
4,066.0
Purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets are our capital expenditures relating primarily to our investments in GPUs and data center hardware. After the completion of the divestment in July 2024 we substantially increased the pace of our investments in this area to support the growth of our core AI cloud business.
Cash flows provided by financing activities.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, net cash provided by financing activities was $5,125.5 million. The amount was primarily related to gross proceeds from issuance of convertible notes of $4,162.5 million, gross proceeds from sale of equity securities of $1,150.0 million, proceeds from issuance by Avride of SAFE instruments of $100.0 million and proceeds from exercise of share options of $8.4 million.
In June 2025, we issued convertible notes in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000.0 million, in two equal tranches due 2029 and 2031. In September 2025, we issued additional convertible notes in an aggregate principal amount of $3,162.5 million, in two equal tranches due 2030 and 2032. The convertible notes represent senior unsecured obligations of the company. Concurrently with the September 2025 convertible notes offering, we issued 12.4 million Class A shares in a public offering for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,150.0 million.
Proceeds from financing activities were partially offset by $89.3 million of issuance costs related to the convertible notes issued in June and September 2025, $23.8 million of issuance costs related to the equity offering, $181.5 million of Dutch dividend withholding tax paid in connection with the portion of the consideration for the divested businesses received in the form of the company’s Class A shares, and $0.8 million of debt repayments.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, net cash provided by financing activities was $656.8 million. The amount primarily consisted of the sale of approximately 33.3 million Class A shares from treasury in a private placement completed in December 2024, which generated gross proceeds of $700.0 million. Those proceeds were partially offset by $32.5 million of issuance costs related to the private placement, $10.0 million paid to repurchase equity-classified awards associated with one of our business units, and $0.7 million of cash payments related to the repurchase of convertible notes restructured in 2022.
Off-Balance Sheet Items
Nebius Group does not currently engage in material off balance sheet financing arrangements, and does not have any material interest or obligation, including any contingent obligation arising out of a variable interest in entities referred to as variable interest entities, which include special purpose entities and other structured finance entities.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make judgments in selecting appropriate assumptions for calculating accounting estimates, which inherently contain some degree of uncertainty. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis of making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates
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under different assumptions or conditions. The significant accounting policies affecting our financial condition and results of operations are more fully described in Note 1 — “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
We believe the following estimates are most critical to aid in understanding and evaluating our reported financial results:
Useful Lives of Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are depreciated over their estimated useful lives on a straight-line basis. We monitor conditions related to these assets to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining amortization or depreciation period. We test these assets for potential impairment whenever management concludes that events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. In estimating useful lives, we consider factors such as technological obsolescence, expected hardware refresh cycles, utilization levels, historical retirement patterns, and the period over which the assets are expected to provide economic benefit. Changes in estimated useful lives can materially affect depreciation expenses and our results of operations. Given the rapidly evolving nature of our young industry and our limited history operating under our current business model, there may be a greater risk that our estimates of useful lives may be subject to change over time. Our main assets, GPUs, are currently depreciated over four years.
In January 2026, the Company completed an assessment of the useful lives of servers and network equipment based on updated information and usage patterns obtained subsequent to year-end and concluded that the estimated useful lives of such assets should be extended from four to five years. Management is considering the application of this change in accounting estimate prospectively beginning January 1, 2026. Based on the servers and network equipment placed in service as of December 31, 2025, we expect this change in accounting estimate will reduce the depreciation expenses for fiscal year 2026 by approximately $167.6 million. The actual impact in future periods will depend on the timing and level of future capital expenditures and asset retirements. We will continue to evaluate the appropriateness of our estimated useful lives and may revise them in future periods if warranted. Any such revisions will be accounted for prospectively.
Recoverability of Deferred Tax Assets
We recognize deferred tax assets for deductible temporary differences and net operating loss carryforwards. The recoverability of these deferred tax assets requires significant management judgment because realization depends on our ability to generate sufficient future taxable income within the applicable carryforward periods. In assessing recoverability, we evaluate both positive and negative evidence, including historical operating results, forecasts of future taxable income, the timing of reversal of existing temporary differences, and available tax planning strategies. A valuation allowance is recorded when, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. If actual results differ from management’s estimates, or if we revise our estimates of future taxable income, we may be required to increase or decrease the valuation allowance in future periods, which could materially impact income tax expense and our results of operations.
Accounting for Leases
We determine if an arrangement meets the definition of a lease at the inception of the lease. The accounting for leases requires significant management judgment, particularly in determining the lease term and the discount rate used to measure our right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities. Because our lease liabilities are measured at the present value of future lease payments, changes in these assumptions can materially affect the amount of ROU assets and lease liabilities recognized on our consolidated balance sheets, as well as lease expense over the lease term.
In determining the lease term, we evaluate renewal and termination options and include such options when we are reasonably certain to exercise them. This assessment requires judgment and is influenced by factors such as the strategic importance of the facility, the availability of alternative capacity, and the level of investment in leasehold improvements.
To determine the present value of our lease payments, we utilize the interest rate implicit in the lease agreement. If the implicit interest rate is unknown, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments. Estimating the incremental borrowing rate requires judgment and consideration of market conditions, our credit profile, and the lease
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term. Changes in the discount rate assumption could materially affect the measurement of our lease liabilities and ROU assets.
We make an accounting policy election regarding the distinction of lease and non-lease components for each group of underlying assets. For co-location spaces at data center facilities, we apply an accounting policy election to separate lease and non-lease components. The allocation between lease and non-lease components affects the amount recognized as lease liabilities and operating expense.
We continue to evaluate the assumptions used in measuring our lease obligations. Revisions to the lease term or discount rate assumptions, or changes in our lease portfolio, could materially affect our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
Valuation of Investments in Equity Securities
We hold investments in equity securities, including investments accounted for under the equity method and investments without readily determinable fair values accounted for under the measurement alternative. The valuation of these investments requires significant management judgment, particularly when assessing whether an impairment has occurred and estimating the fair value of an investment when observable market prices are not available.
For equity method investments, we evaluate whether events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. For investments accounted for under the measurement alternative, we perform periodic qualitative assessments to determine whether the investment is impaired. Indicators of impairment may include deterioration in the investee’s financial performance, adverse changes in market or industry conditions, reductions in recent financing valuations, or other entity-specific developments. When impairment indicators are present, we estimate the fair value of the investment, which may require the use of valuation techniques such as discounted cash flow analyses or market-based approaches using comparable company data. These valuation techniques involve significant assumptions, including projected financial results, discount rates, and market multiples, all of which are inherently uncertain. Changes in these assumptions could result in materially different fair value estimates.
If we determine that an investment’s fair value is below its carrying amount and the decline is not temporary, we record an impairment charge in other income / (loss), net. Because these estimates are based on information that may be limited or not publicly available, actual results could differ from our estimates, and future impairments could materially affect our results of operations.
Provisions and Contingent Liabilities
We accrue a provision or contingent liability when our management determines that it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. In determining the appropriate accounting for loss contingencies, we consider the likelihood of loss or impairment of an asset or the incurrence of a liability, as well as our ability to reasonably estimate the amount of loss. Estimating provisions for contingent liabilities requires us to evaluate available information, including legal interpretations, historical experience, and discussions with external advisors. These assessments are inherently uncertain and may change as additional information becomes available or as matters are resolved. We regularly evaluate current information available to us to determine whether an accrual should be established or adjusted. Estimating the probability that a loss will occur and estimating the amount of a loss or a range of loss involves significant judgment.
A significant portion of the consideration for the businesses we divested in 2024 was received in the form of our Class A shares. The acquisition of such shares by our company is treated as a repurchase of its own shares for Dutch tax purposes, which would be subject to withholding tax at a rate of 15%, unless the shares so acquired qualify as "temporary investments". Based on our use of a portion of these shares in 2024 for financing purposes and our equity incentive program, in the fourth quarter of 2024, we accrued a contingent tax liability in respect of approximately 117 million repurchased Class A shares in the amount of $180.9 million, which was subsequently settled in February 2025. The determination of this accrual required significant judgment regarding the interpretation of applicable tax regulations and the characterization of the shares for tax purposes. Different interpretations or changes in the relevant facts could have resulted in a materially different outcome.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
See Note 1 — “Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
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Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our exposure to foreign currency exchange risk significantly decreased in 2024, following the divestment transaction. We monitor our foreign currency exposures to maximize the economic effectiveness of our foreign currency positions. Our principal currency exposures include the Euro and, to a lesser extent, the Israeli shekel and Icelandic krona.
For example, if the Euro had been stronger/weaker by 10% relative to the value of the U.S. dollar as of December 31, 2025 we would have recognized additional foreign exchange gains/losses before tax of $8.0 million.
The functional currency of our parent company, Nebius Group N.V., is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the group’s other businesses that are incorporated outside the U.S. is generally the respective local currency. The U.S. dollar is our reporting currency. The financial statements of our foreign entities are translated into U.S. dollars using the current rate method, where balance sheet items are translated into U.S. dollars at the period-end exchange rates and revenue and expenses are translated using weighted average exchange rates for the relevant period. The resulting translation effects are recorded as part of accumulated other comprehensive losses in the consolidated balance sheets and amounted to a loss of $22.1 million and of $0.1 million, as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, we reclassified other comprehensive loss in amount of $2,428.6 million and other comprehensive income in amount of $0.8 million, respectively, from equity to earnings upon deconsolidation of the divested businesses, which consisted solely of currency translation adjustments.
Interest Rate Risk
As of December 31, 2025, we had cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds and short-term bank deposits, in the amount of $3,678.1 million. Our cash and cash equivalents are held for further expansion of our infrastructure facilities and for working capital purposes. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes.
In June 2025 and September 2025, we issued convertible notes with an aggregate principal amount of $4,162.5 million. We carry the convertible notes on our balance sheet at face value, net of unamortized discount and issuance costs, and present their fair value for disclosure purposes only. Although the convertible notes bear interest at a fixed rate, changes in interest rates may affect their fair value. Generally, the fair value of the convertible notes increases as interest rates decline and decreases as interest rates rise. In addition, the fair value of the convertible notes may fluctuate with changes in the market price of our Class A shares. For further information refer to Note 12 — “Convertible Debt” of our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Item 6. Directors, Senior Management and Employees.
Board of Directors
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to each of the executive and non-executive members of our board of directors (the “Board”) and their respective age and position as of the date of this Annual Report:
Name
Age
Date of Expiration of Current Term of Office
Director or Executive Officer Since
Title
Arkady Volozh
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2026
Executive Director, CEO
Ophir Nave
Executive Director, COO
John Boynton
2000
Non-Executive Chairman
Elena Bunina
Non-Executive Director
Arne Grimme
Kira Radinsky
Charles Ryan
2011
Matt Weigand
Arkady Volozh is the principal founder of Nebius Group and was appointed as executive director and CEO of Nebius Group in August 2024. Mr. Volozh previously served as the founder, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company between 2000 and 2022. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Volozh’s background in computer science led to the inception of several successful IT enterprises, including InfiNet Wireless and CompTek International, the latter of which he also served as CEO. Mr. Volozh has invested in and served on the board of Face.com, an Israeli face-tagging company (sold to Facebook in 2012), and was an early investor in Getir, a Turkish based company and pioneer in the ‘quick commerce’ market, being the first to introduce the 15-minute grocery delivery model. Mr. Volozh has also served as a board member for US-based Neurosteer, the company responsible for developing the world’s first wearable, medical-grade brain activity interpretation platform used across a wide range of medical and lifestyle applications. Mr. Volozh holds a degree in applied mathematics from Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas.
Ophir Nave was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Nebius Group in May 2024 and became an executive director in August 2024. Previously, Mr. Nave was a Lead Partner in the Corporate and M&A Practice at the Israeli law firm Arnon, Tadmor-Levy, where he also served on the firm’s executive committee. His legal career includes positions at the U.S. law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, clerking for Justice Theodor Or of the Israeli Supreme Court, and lecturing on corporate finance at Tel Aviv University. Mr. Nave holds a Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard Law School, an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technion.
John Boynton has served as Chairman of the Board since 2016 and as a non-executive director of the Board since 2000. A founding shareholder of Yandex, he has played a key role in developing the company’s governance practices over more than two decades and guiding it through exceptionally challenging circumstances in recent years. Through Firehouse Capital, Inc., his private investment firm, Mr. Boynton backs early-stage technology companies and select real estate opportunities. In recent years, he has focused on the sports industry, particularly professional women’s ice hockey and soccer, as well as sports tech and data companies. Most recently, Mr. Boynton co-founded Litix, a vertical SaaS company powered by AI that serves public sector organizations. He holds a BA from Harvard College.
Elena Bunina became a non-executive director of our Board in August 2024. Ms. Bunina is a university professor, Israel-based businesswoman and an accomplished mathematician with more than 70 research publications and with a particular focus on algebra and model theory. She currently serves as the Head of Science and Education for the Nebius Group. Ms. Bunina previously served as the Head of Academic and Educational Services across the Company’s group, as well as the General Director and director of Human Resources of the company’s former Russian subsidiary, stepping down in April 2022. Ms. Bunina holds a Doctor of Science degree, in addition to having a Ph.D in Mathematics, from the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University, where she served as a professor for 12 years until 2022. She currently serves as a professor of Mathematics at Bar Ilan University, in Israel.
Arne Grimme became a non-executive director of our Board in August 2025. Mr. Grimme has been a partner of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, a leading Dutch law firm, since 2003, and serves as the Head of the firm’s Corporate M&A practice. He mainly advises listed companies on various corporate matters and complex cross-border transactions. Previously, he worked for Ernst & Young and a different law firm. Mr. Grimme is also a member of the Supervisory Council of the National Maritime Museum. He has studied at the University of Utrecht and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Kira Radinsky became a non-executive director of our Board in August 2024. Ms. Radinsky is the chief technology officer and chairwoman of Diagnostic Robotics, a US-based technology business working in the field of AI to make healthcare better, cheaper and more widely available. As a result of Ms. Radinsky’s technology expertise, she founded Mana Bio, an AI-based drug delivery business, and cofounded San Francisco based SalesPredict in 2012, where she led the research and development aspects of data mining. When SalesPredict was sold to eBay in 2016, Ms. Radinsky became eBay’s director of data science and chief scientist. Ms. Radinsky has also served on the board of directors for Esh Digital Bank (Tel Aviv), Maccabi Health Care Data Science Institute (Tel Aviv) and HSBC Technology Board (London). Aside from her corporate roles, Ms. Radinsky is a visiting professor at the Technion focusing her research on how web dynamics and knowledge can help predict future global events. Ms. Radinsky has a B.Sc. and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.
Charles Ryan has been a non-executive director of the Board since 2011. A finance professional with 34 years of experience in international markets, Mr. Ryan co-founded United Financial Group (UFG) and became its Chairman and CEO in 1994. In 1998, Mr. Ryan initiated the New Technology Group within UFG Asset Management, which sponsored an early-stage technology investment in ru-Net Holdings. In 2006, Deutsche Bank acquired 100% of UFG's
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investment banking business, and Mr. Ryan was appointed chief country officer and CEO of Deutsche Bank Group in Russia and remained in that position until the end of 2008, when he became chairman of UFG Asset Management. From 2008 through the end of 2010, Mr. Ryan was a consultant for Deutsche Bank. Prior to founding UFG, Mr. Ryan worked as an associate and principal banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London from 1991 to 1994 and as a financial analyst with CS First Boston from 1989 to 1991. Mr. Ryan is also a founder and the general partner of Almaz Capital Partners, an international VC firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley, which connects entrepreneurs and engineering talent in the USA and Eastern European /CIS countries and brings prominent startups to the global market. Mr. Ryan has a degree in government from Harvard University.
Matt Weigand became a non-executive director of our Board in August 2025. Mr. Weigand is a partner at Accel, a global venture capital firm, which he joined in 2013. He focuses on investments in enterprise software, financial technology, and security businesses. Prior to Accel, he worked with William Blair’s technology investment banking group. Mr. Weigand graduated from Miami University.
Elena Bunina, a non-executive director and Head of Science and Education, and Roman Chernin, our Chief Business Officer, are married. To our knowledge, there are no other family relationships among any of our directors, executive officers or senior managers as of the date of this annual report.
Senior Management
The senior management team consists of the following executive officers as of the date of this Annual Report:
Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez has served as Chief Financial Officer of Nebius since June 2025. Ms. Alonso is a global finance executive with more than 25 years of experience leading finance organizations and shaping strategy for high-growth, digital-first companies across technology, e-commerce, and online platforms. Prior to joining Nebius, Ms. Alonso served as Group CFO at Berlin Brands Group where she was a member of the executive team overseeing all financial matters from 2022 to 2024. Prior to that, Ms. Alonso served as Group CFO and Board member at Azerion. She also has experience in finance and financial controls at Booking.com and Amazon where she helped manage complex international operations and supported rapid growth across multiple markets and business models.
Marc Boroditsky has served as Chief Revenue Officer of Nebius since May 2025. Mr. Boroditsky previously served as President of Revenue at Cloudflare, Inc., a global cloud services provider, from November 2022 to August 2024. Prior to that, he served in a variety of senior management roles at Twilio Inc., a cloud communication platform, beginning in February 2015, including as SVP of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer from April 2017 to August 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Boroditsky co-founded a number of technology companies. Mr Boroditsky has served on the board of directors of OneSpan Inc., an identity verification and electronic signature company, since June 2019. He also has served as a member of the board of directors of Asana, a work management software company since April 2025.
Roman Chernin is Chief Business Officer and co-founder of Nebius. He leads business strategy and product direction, including Token Factory, Nebius' enterprise-grade inference platform for deploying and scaling open-source models. Before co-founding Nebius, he spent more than a decade at Yandex leading Search and later Maps and Navigation.
Andrey Korolenko is Chief Product and Infrastructure Officer and co-founder of Nebius. Prior to his role at Nebius, Mr. Korolenko was the Head of Infrastructure at Yandex. Mr. Korolenko has extensive hardware and software experience that includes managing the development, construction, and operations of efficient, high-performance GPU-
driven data centers, as well as the creation and development of software applications and related technology services.
Danila Shtan is the Chief Technology Officer of Nebius. Prior to his role at Nebius, Mr. Shtan was a Vice President leading Developer Infrastructure, and CTO for Classifieds at Yandex. Mr. Shtan has extensive leadership and operations experience within fast-growing and large organizations building developer tools and related technology.
Boaz Tal has served as General Counsel of Nebius since January 2025. Prior to joining Nebius, Mr. Tal was the Deputy CEO and General Counsel at Israel Shipyards Industries Ltd from March 2020 to January 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Tal held a variety of other positions in the Israel Shipyards Group. He also served as a board member of IWI International and other subsidiaries of Naska Industries between 2010 and 2024. He has extensive experience establishing and leading legal departments and partnering with executive leadership on business and strategy development.
Compensation and Share Ownership of Executive Officers and Directors
The aggregate cash compensation paid or accrued in 2025 for members of our senior management (including our executive directors) (a total of eight persons), as a group, was $5.9 million. In addition, in 2025, we granted an aggregate of 6,350,000 share options and 226,312 RSUs to the members of our senior management (including our executive directors). Awards generally vest over four years with one-sixteenth vesting each quarter.
The aggregate cash compensation paid or accrued in 2025 for our non-executive directors (a total of six persons), as a group, was $0.9 million. In addition, in 2025, we granted an aggregate of 27,198 RSUs to our non-executive directors as a group. RSUs generally vest over four years with one-sixteenth vesting each quarter.
For information on share ownership and options held by our directors and senior management, please see “Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions”.
Our Class A ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and our Board relies upon the listing requirements and rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market to assist it in its determinations of director independence. Because Mr. Volozh beneficially holds approximately 52% of the voting control as of March 31, 2026 and holds greater than 50% of the voting power for election of directors, Nebius is a “Controlled Company” as defined by Rule 5615 of the Nasdaq Stock Market rules. As such, we are not required to have a majority of independent directors on our Board, nor are we required to have an independent nominating and corporate governance committee or compensation committee. While our Board currently includes a majority of independent directors and our compensation committee consists solely of independent directors, our nominating and corporate governance committee does not consist entirely of independent directors and instead relies on the exemption under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market. Our audit committee consists solely of independent directors. For so long as we remain a Controlled Company, we may take advantage of some or all of the exemptions to the independence requirements available to Controlled Companies.
The principal standing committees of our board of directors are the audit, compensation, and nominating and corporate governance committees. We have adopted a charter for each of these committees.
Audit Committee
Our audit committee consists of Messrs. Ryan (chairperson), Boynton and Weigand. Each member satisfies the independence requirements of the Nasdaq listing standards, and Mr. Ryan qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as defined in Item 16A of Form 20-F and as determined by our board of directors. The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of our consolidated financial statements. The audit committee is responsible for, among other things:
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Compensation Committee
Our compensation committee currently consists of Ms. Radinsky (chairperson), and Messrs. Boynton and Weigand. Each member satisfies the independence requirements of the Nasdaq listing standards. The compensation committee assists our board of directors in reviewing and approving or recommending our compensation structure, including all forms of compensation relating to our directors and senior management. The compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
The nominating and corporate governance committee consists of three members: Messrs. Volozh (chairperson) and Boynton and Ms. Radinsky. The majority of the members satisfy the independence requirements of the Nasdaq listing standards. Mr. Volozh serving on the nominating and corporate governance committee is considered to be in the best interests of the сompany and its shareholders, and permitted under the Nasdaq rules applicable to Nebius Group as a Controlled Company. The nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:
Employment Agreements
Substantially all of our employees are employed by our operating subsidiaries. Our employment agreements generally contain the minimum statutory notice periods required under local law. The employment agreements generally contain non-competition and non-solicitation provisions.
Employees
The following table indicates the composition of our workforce as of December 31 each year indicated:
Netherlands
474
584
171
351
Israel
190
185
Other
360
423
Total
1,195
1,543
653
813
Sales, general and administration
430
580
Cost of sales
112
Our employees are not represented by any collective bargaining agreements and we have never experienced a work stoppage. Pursuant to the requirements of Dutch law, our employees in the Netherlands have formed an employee
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works council. The works council has the right to be informed by and/or to advise management on specific matters in accordance with the Dutch Works Council Act. In addition, the Works Council Act provides that various decisions with respect to employment conditions of general application require the works council's consent. If withheld, such consent may be replaced with a judgment from the cantonal court. The works council has the right to render advice on any proposed decision to appoint or dismiss a director of the Board. We believe our employee relations are good.
Employee Plan
We grant equity awards in the form of stock options (“Options”), share appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted shares, restricted share units (“RSUs”) and performance share units (“PSUs”) (together, the “Company Awards”) under our Nebius Group N.V. Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan was approved by the general meeting of shareholders on May 27, 2016, and was amended on June 27, 2019, and amended and restated on August 15, 2024. The Plan currently provides that the maximum number of shares available for issuance under the Plan (and predecessor plans) is approximately 33 million.
Additionally, the Plan provides employees of certain business units in the group, currently including Avride, (the “Participating Subsidiaries”), the opportunity to receive equity awards (and synthetic awards) in respect of shares in the equity of those Participating Subsidiaries (the “Business Unit Equity Awards”). The maximum number of ordinary shares of any Participating Subsidiary, which may be subject to awards over the term of the Plan (together with any shares that may be sold to business unit management outside the Plan), is determined by the Board but may not exceed 20% of the aggregate number of such Participating Subsidiary shares issued and outstanding from time to time. In the future, additional of our business units, or new business units, may be designated Participating Subsidiaries by our Board of Directors.
Plan administration. Our Board of Directors or its Compensation Committee administers our Plan. Although our Plan sets forth certain terms and conditions of our equity awards, our Board of Directors or its Compensation Committee determines the provisions and terms and conditions of each grant. These include, among other things, the vesting schedule, repurchase provisions, forfeiture provisions, any performance conditions and forms of payment upon exercise.
Eligibility. We may grant Company Awards to employees, directors, advisors and consultants to our Company and its subsidiaries. We may also grant Business Unit Equity Awards to employees, officers, directors, advisors and consultants of a Participating Subsidiary. No participant has an automatic right of participation, and no participant will have a right to automatic top up or replenishment of awards when outstanding awards vest or are exercised.
Exercise price and term of equity awards. With respect to Company Awards, the exercise price of options or measurement price of share appreciation rights awards is the fair market value of an underlying Class A Share, which means (A) at any time when the Class A Shares are not publicly traded on an internationally recognized stock exchange, the price per share most recently determined by our Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, to be the fair market value thereof, which determination shall be made at least once every six calendar months; and (B) at any time when such shares are publicly traded on an internationally recognized stock exchange, (i) in the case of RSUs, the closing price per share on the date of such determination; and (ii) in the case of options and SARs, the average closing price per share on the 20 trading days immediately following the date of determination, subject to compliance with applicable law. RSU and PSU awards have no exercise or measurement price. Equity awards are generally exercisable up until the tenth anniversary of the grant date so long as the participant’s relationship with us has not terminated and any performance or other pre-determined conditions have been fulfilled. The Plan does not permit re-pricing of options without shareholder approval except in cases of major capital events, and similar, to arrive at an equitable position akin to that prior to the event.
Vesting schedule. The notice of grant specifies the vesting schedule. Company Awards generally vest quarterly over a four-year period, with 4/16ths vesting after one year and an additional 1/16 vesting each quarter thereafter unless otherwise determined by our Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee and set forth in a specific award agreement; awards granted to employees who have been with the Company for more than one year generally vest quarterly over four years. When a participant’s employment or service is terminated, the participant may generally exercise his or her options that have vested as of the termination date within 90 days of termination or as determined by our Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee.
Amendment and Termination. Subject to any shareholder approval requirements under the rules of any stock
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exchange that are applicable to the Company at any time or applicable law, our Board of Directors may amend or suspend the Plan or any portion thereof at any time. Unless otherwise specified in the amendment, any amendment to the Plan will apply to, and be binding on the holders of, all Company Awards outstanding under the Plan at the time the amendment is adopted, provided that Board of Directors determines that such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of participants under the Plan.
Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions.
The following table contains information concerning each of our executive and non-executive directors, each executive officer, and each shareholder known by us to beneficially own more than five percent of each class of our outstanding ordinary shares. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and includes voting or investment power with respect to our shares.
The number of shares outstanding used in calculating the percentage for each listed shareholder includes restricted share units in respect of Class A shares and the shares underlying options held by such shareholder that were exercisable as of March 31, 2026. The percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 220,406,311 Class A shares and 33,491,883 Class B shares outstanding as of March 31, 2026. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and includes voting or investment power with respect to Class A ordinary shares. Generally, a person “beneficially owns” our Class A ordinary shares if the person has or shares with others the right to vote those shares or to dispose of them, or if the person has the right to acquire voting or disposition rights within 60 days of March 31. All holders of our ordinary shares, including those shareholders listed below, have the same voting rights with respect to such shares. Class A shares have one vote per share, and Class B shares have 10 votes per share.
Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each beneficial owner listed on the table below is c/o Nebius Group N.V., Schiphol Boulevard 165, 1118 BG Schiphol, the Netherlands.
Shares Beneficially Owned as of March 31, 2026
Class A Shares
Class B Shares
Total Percentage
Number of
By Voting
By Number of
Name of Beneficial Owner
Shares
Power(1)
Directors:
Arkady Volozh(2)
118,289
*
28,655,509
85.56%
51.62
11.33
Ophir Nave(3)
1,042,084
John Boynton(4)
433,910
Elena Bunina(5)
462,720
Arne Grimme(6)
4,533
Kira Radinsky(7)
15,402
Charles Ryan(8)
322,533
Matt Weigand(9)
Executive Officers:
Dado Alonso
Marc Boroditsky(10)
21,662
Roman Chernin(11)
1,000,000
Andrey Korolenko(12)
658,233
Danila Shtan(13)
15,712
Boaz Tal(14)
13,666
All directors and executive officers as a group (14 persons)(15)
4,113,277
1.87
85.56
52.34
12.91
Principal Shareholders:
LASTAR Trust(11)
11.29
Vladimir Ivanov (16)
6,496,854
2.95
3,318,884
9.91
7.15
1.31
Total shares held by directors, executive officers and 5% holders
10,610,131
4.81
31,974,393
95.47
59.49
16.77
Represents beneficial ownership of less than one percent of such class.
Related Party Transactions
See Note 16 — “Related party transactions” of the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Item 8. Financial Information.
See the financial statements beginning on page F-1.
Dividends
We do not have any present plan to pay cash dividends on our shares in the near term. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on then existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.
If and when we pay dividends in the future, they will be payable on a pari passu basis on the outstanding Class A and Class B shares. Although our Class C shares are technically entitled to a maximum dividend of 1% of the nominal value of such Class C shares when we declare dividends on our Class A and Class B shares, we intend to repurchase all Class C shares issued upon conversion of our Class B shares promptly following their issuance such that no dividends would be payable on our Class C shares. Cash dividends on our shares, if any, will be paid in U.S. dollars.
Item 9. The Offer and Listing.
Markets
Our Class A ordinary shares are currently listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, under the symbol “NBIS”.
Item 10. Additional Information.
Articles of Association
The material provisions of our articles of association as currently in force and relevant provisions of Dutch law and the Dutch Corporate Governance Code are summarized below or included in Exhibit 2.1 to this Annual Report. This summary does not restate our articles of association or relevant Dutch law in their entirety. Although we believe that this summary contains all of the information about our articles of association important to your decision to purchase our Class A shares, it does not include all of the provisions that you may feel are important. It is the articles of association, and not this summary, that will define the rights of holders of our shares (and therefore, the rights of holders of our Class A shares).
Our articles of association are filed with the Dutch Trade Register, and an English translation has been filed with the SEC. Our articles of association were amended most recently on August 21, 2025.
As provided in Article 3 of our articles of association, the stated objectives of our company are:
Amendment of the Articles of Association
Our articles of association may only be amended upon a proposal of our board of directors by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast at a general meeting of shareholders.
In addition to such vote, the approval of a three-fourths majority of the votes cast at a separate meeting of holders of Class A shares is required for any amendment that:(i) eliminates or affects the rights, including but not limited to the calculation of entitlement to any profits, of holders of Class A shares (including any change in the dividend or liquidation entitlement of the holders of Class B shares or Class C shares); (ii)amends certain specific provisions and/or articles as set out in our articles; (iii)changes the transferability and conversion features of the Class B shares; or (iv) increases the number of authorized Class B shares.
We acknowledge the importance of good corporate governance. The Dutch Corporate Governance Code, or the Code, was released in 2003 and last amended in 2025. The Code contains both principles and best practice provisions for management boards, supervisory boards, shareholders and general meetings of shareholders, financial reporting, auditors, disclosure, compliance and enforcement standards. The Code applies to all Dutch companies listed on a government-recognized stock exchange, whether in the Netherlands or elsewhere, including the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Such companies are required under Dutch law to disclose in their Dutch annual reports filed in the Netherlands whether or not they comply with provisions of the Code and, if they do not comply with those provisions, to explain why they deviate from any such provision.
We have not generally applied the provisions of the Code and, except as described under the heading “—Management—Corporate Governance,” we instead comply with the applicable corporate governance rules of the SEC and Nasdaq applicable to U.S. domestic issuers.
Differences in Corporate Law
The following is a brief comparison between Dutch corporate law, which applies to us, and Delaware corporation law, the law under which many publicly listed corporations in the United States are incorporated. Although we believe this summary is materially accurate, the summary is subject to Dutch law, including Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code and the Dutch Corporate Governance Code (see "—Corporate Governance") and Delaware corporation law, including the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Duties of directors
The Netherlands. In the Netherlands, a listed company typically has a two-tier board structure with a management board comprised of the executive directors and a supervisory board comprised of the non-executive directors. It is, however, also possible to have a single-tier board of directors, comprising both executive directors and non-executive directors. We have a single-tier board of directors.
In accordance with our single-tier board structure, the executive directors are responsible for the management of the day-to-day affairs of the company. The non-executive directors are responsible for the supervision of the execution of the duties and responsibilities of the directors and of the general course of affairs of the company and its business. Each director has a duty towards the company to properly perform the duties assigned to him or her. Furthermore, each board member has a duty to act in the corporate interest of the company. Under Dutch law, the corporate interest extends to the interests of all corporate stakeholders, such as shareholders, creditors, employees, customers and suppliers. The duty to act in the corporate interest of the company also applies in the event of a proposed sale or break-up of the company, whereby the circumstances generally dictate how such duty is to be applied. Any board resolution regarding a significant change in the identity or character of the company requires shareholders' approval.
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Delaware. The board of directors bears the ultimate responsibility for managing the business and affairs of a corporation. In discharging this function, directors of a Delaware corporation owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to the corporation and to its stockholders. Delaware courts have decided that the directors of a Delaware corporation are required to exercise informed business judgment in the performance of their duties. Informed business judgment means that the directors have informed themselves of all material information reasonably available to them. Delaware courts have also imposed a heightened standard of conduct upon directors of a Delaware corporation who take any action designed to defeat a threatened change in control of the corporation. In addition, under Delaware law, when the board of directors of a Delaware corporation approves the sale or break-up of a corporation, the board of directors may, in certain circumstances, have a duty to obtain the highest value reasonably available to the stockholders.
Director terms
The Netherlands. In line with the Dutch Corporate Governance Code, a director of a listed company is generally appointed for an individual term of a maximum of four years, although all directors currently serving on the Board have been appointed for a one-year term. Our articles of association provide that our directors will be appointed for individual terms of a maximum of one year, with no limit on the number of consecutive terms a director may serve. A director may be suspended and/or removed at any time, with or without cause, by the general meeting of shareholders. Our articles of association provide that a resolution to this effect requires a two-thirds majority of the votes cast representing at least 50% of our issued share capital.
Delaware. The Delaware General Corporation Law generally provides for a one-year term for directors, but permits directorships to be divided into up to three classes with up to three-year terms, with the years for each class expiring in different years, if permitted by the certificate of incorporation, an initial bylaw or a bylaw adopted by the stockholders. A director elected to serve a term on a "classified" board may not be removed by stockholders without cause. There is no limit in the number of terms a director may serve.
Director vacancies
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, new members of the board of directors of a company such as ours are appointed by the general meeting of shareholders.
Delaware. The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that vacancies and newly created directorships may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office (even though less than a quorum) unless (i) otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the corporation or (ii) the certificate of incorporation directs that a particular class of stock is to elect such director, in which case any other directors elected by such class, or a sole remaining director elected by such class, will fill such vacancy.
Conflict-of-interest transactions
The Netherlands. Our articles of association provide that any director may not take part in any vote on a subject or transaction in relation to which he has a conflict of interest with our company. If, as a direct result of the foregoing, no resolution can be adopted by the Board, such resolution will be put before the general meeting of shareholders and subsequently the general meeting of shareholders can resolve the matter. The Dutch Corporate Governance Code contains a number of best practice provisions as to conflicts of interest. Our articles of association provide that in the event that we have a conflict of interest with one or more members of the board of directors, we may still be represented by our executive directors.
Delaware. The Delaware General Corporation Law generally permits transactions involving a Delaware corporation and an interested director of that corporation if:
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The Delaware General Corporation Law also provides certain safe harbor procedures for transactions in which a director or officer, or a controlling stockholder or control group, may have a conflict of interest.
Proxy voting by directors
The Netherlands. An absent director may issue a proxy for a specific board meeting but only to another director in writing.
Delaware. A director of a Delaware corporation may not issue a proxy representing the director's voting rights as a director.
Shareholder Rights
Voting rights
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, the number of voting rights per share depends on the par value thereof (i.e. each Class A share with a par value of €0.01 carries the right to cast one vote, each Class B share with a par value of €0.10 carries the right to cast ten votes and each Class C share with a par value of €0.09 carries the right to cast nine votes). All shareholder resolutions are taken by an absolute majority of the votes cast, unless the articles of association or Dutch law prescribe otherwise. There is no required quorum under Dutch law for shareholder action at a properly convened shareholder meeting.
If so resolved by the board of directors, shareholders as of the record date for a shareholders' meeting are entitled to vote at that meeting. The record date is at the 28th day before the meeting. There is no specific provision in Dutch law for adjournments.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, each stockholder is entitled to one vote per share of stock, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. In addition, the certificate of incorporation may provide for cumulative voting at all elections of directors of the corporation, or at elections held under specified circumstances. Either the certificate of incorporation or the bylaws may specify the number of shares and/or the amount of other securities that must be represented at a meeting in order to constitute a quorum, but in no event will a quorum consist of less than one-third of the shares entitled to vote at a meeting.
Stockholders as of the record date for the meeting are entitled to vote at the meeting, and the board of directors may fix a record date that is no more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of the meeting, and if no record date is set then the record date is the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or if notice is waived then the record date is the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. The determination of the stockholders of record entitled to notice or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting, but the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
Shareholder proposals
The Netherlands. Pursuant to our articles of association, extraordinary shareholders' meetings will be held as often as the board of directors deems necessary. Pursuant to our articles of association, one or more shareholders who solely or jointly represent at least 10% of the issued share capital may request the board of directors to convene a shareholders’ meeting. Such written request must specify in detail the business to be considered. If our board of directors has not convened a meeting within six weeks of the request, the requesting person(s) may, at his/her/their request, be authorized by a court in preliminary relief proceedings to convene the meeting themselves.
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The agenda for a meeting of shareholders must contain such items as the board of directors or the person or persons convening the meeting decide. The agenda shall also include such other items as one or more shareholders, representing at least 3% of the par value of our issued share capital may request together with an explanation in writing, at least 60 days before the date of the meeting. No resolutions shall be adopted on items other than those which have been included in the agenda.
Given the disproportionate par value of our Class B shares, it will be difficult for the holders of our Class A shares to meet the required thresholds described above.
Delaware. Delaware law does not specifically grant stockholders the right to bring business before an annual or special meeting. However, if a Delaware corporation is subject to the SEC's proxy rules, a stockholder who owns at least $2,000 in market value, or 1% of the corporation's securities entitled to vote, may propose a matter for a vote at an annual or special meeting in accordance with those rules.
Action by written consent
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, shareholders' resolutions may be adopted in writing without holding a meeting of shareholders, provided that, among other things, the resolution is adopted unanimously by all shareholders that are entitled to vote. For a listed company this method of adopting resolutions is, therefore, not feasible.
Delaware. Although permitted by Delaware law, publicly listed companies do not typically permit stockholders of a corporation to take action by written consent.
Appraisal rights
The Netherlands. Subject to certain exceptions, Dutch law does not recognize the concept of appraisal or dissenters' rights. See "—Differences in corporate law—Shareholder rights—Shareholder vote on certain reorganizations."
Delaware. The Delaware General Corporation Law provides for stockholder appraisal rights, or the right to demand payment in cash of the judicially determined fair value of the stockholder's shares, in connection with certain mergers and consolidations.
Shareholder suits
The Netherlands. In the event a third party is liable to a Dutch company, only the company itself can bring a civil action against that party. The individual shareholders do not have the right to bring an action on behalf of the company. Only in the event that the cause for the liability of a third party to the company also constitutes a tortious act directly against a shareholder does that shareholder have an individual right of action against such third party in its own name. The Dutch Civil Code does, however, provide for the possibility to initiate such actions collectively. A foundation or an association whose objective is to protect the rights of a group of persons having similar interests can institute a collective action. The collective action can result in a collective settlement or an order for payment of monetary damages. An individual injured party may also itself institute a civil claim for damages.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a stockholder may bring a derivative action on behalf of the corporation to enforce the rights of the corporation. An individual also may commence a class action suit on behalf of himself and other similarly situated stockholders where the requirements for maintaining a class action under Delaware law have been met. A person may institute and maintain such a suit only if that person was a stockholder at the time of the transaction which is the subject of the suit. In addition, under Delaware case law, the plaintiff normally must be a stockholder not only at the time of the transaction that is the subject of the suit, but also throughout the duration of the derivative suit.
Repurchase of shares
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, a company such as ours may not subscribe for newly issued shares in its own capital. Such company may, however, subject to certain restrictions of Dutch law and its articles of association, acquire
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fully paid-up shares in its own capital. We may acquire our own shares either without paying any consideration, or in the event any consideration must be paid only if (i) the shareholders' equity less the payment required to make the acquisition is not less than the sum of called and paid-up capital and any reserve required by Dutch law and our articles of association, (ii) we and our subsidiaries would not thereafter hold or hold as a pledgee shares with an aggregate par value exceeding 50% of the par value of our issued share capital, (iii) our articles of association permit such acquisition, which currently is the case, and (iv) the general meeting of shareholders has authorized the board of directors to do so from time to time for the maximum period allowed under Dutch law and our articles of association, being 18 months. We intend to regularly repurchase, for no consideration, any Class C shares upon the conversion of Class B shares, in which case the above requirements do not apply.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation may purchase or redeem its own shares unless the capital of the corporation is impaired or the purchase or redemption would cause an impairment of the capital of the corporation. A Delaware corporation may, however, purchase or redeem out of capital any of its preferred shares or, if no preferred shares are outstanding, any of its own shares if such shares will be retired upon acquisition and the capital of the corporation will be reduced in accordance with specified limitations.
Anti-takeover provisions
The Netherlands. Neither Dutch law nor our articles of association specifically prevent business combinations with interested shareholders. Under Dutch law various protective measures are possible and permissible, within the boundaries set by Dutch case law and Dutch law. We have adopted several provisions that may have the effect of making a takeover of our company more difficult or less attractive, including:
In the event of a hostile takeover bid, in general our board of directors reserves the right to use all powers available to it in the interest of our company and its stakeholders.
Delaware. In addition to other aspects of Delaware law governing fiduciary duties of directors during a potential takeover, the Delaware General Corporation Law also contains a business combination statute that protects Delaware companies from hostile takeovers and from actions following the takeover by prohibiting some transactions once an acquirer has gained a significant holding in the corporation.
Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law prohibits "business combinations," including mergers, sales and leases of assets, issuances of securities and similar transactions by a corporation or a subsidiary with an interested stockholder that beneficially owns 15% or more of a corporation's voting stock, within three years after the person becomes an interested stockholder, unless:
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A Delaware corporation may elect not to be governed by Section 203 by a provision contained in the original certificate of incorporation of the corporation or an amendment to the original certificate of incorporation or to the bylaws of the company, which amendment must be approved by a majority of the shares entitled to vote and may not be further amended by the board of directors of the corporation. Such an amendment is not effective until 12 months following its adoption.
Inspection of books and records
The Netherlands. The board of directors provides all information desired by the shareholders' meeting, unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. Our shareholders' register is available for inspection by the shareholders.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, any stockholder may inspect for any proper purpose the corporation's stock ledger, a list of its stockholders and its other books and records during the corporation's usual hours of business. The Delaware General Corporation Law defines the scope of “books and records” available for inspection and the procedural requirements related to stockholder demands for inspection.
Removal of directors
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, the general meeting of shareholders has the authority to suspend or remove members of the board of directors at any time with or without cause. Our articles of association provide that a resolution to this effect requires a two-thirds majority of the votes cast representing at least 50% of our issued share capital.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, any director or the entire board of directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors, except (i) unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise, in the case of a corporation whose board is classified, stockholders may effect such removal only for cause, or (ii) in the case of a corporation having cumulative voting, if less than the entire board is to be removed, no director may be removed without cause if the votes cast against his removal would be sufficient to elect him if then cumulatively voted at an election of the entire board of directors, or, if there are classes of directors, at an election of the class of directors of which he is a part.
Preemptive rights
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, in the event of an issuance of ordinary shares, each shareholder will have a pro rata preemptive right based on the number of ordinary shares held by such shareholder (with the exception of ordinary shares to be issued to employees or ordinary shares issued against a contribution other than in cash). Preemptive rights in respect of newly issued ordinary shares may be limited or excluded by the general meeting of shareholders or by the board of directors if so authorized by the general meeting of shareholders or by the articles of association for a period not exceeding five years.
Our articles of association conform to Dutch law and authorize the general meeting of shareholders, or the board of directors, if so authorized by a resolution of the general meeting of shareholders or by the articles of association, to limit or exclude preemptive rights for holders of our Class A and Class B ordinary shares for a period not exceeding five years. In order for such a resolution to be adopted, a majority of at least two-thirds of the votes cast in a general meeting of shareholders is required if less than half of the issued share capital is present or represented at the meeting.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, stockholders have no preemptive rights to subscribe for additional issues of stock or to any security convertible into such stock unless, and to the extent that, such rights are expressly provided for in the certificate of incorporation.
The Netherlands. Dutch law provides that dividends may only be distributed after adoption of the statutory accounts by the general meeting of shareholders from which it appears that such dividend distribution is allowed. Moreover, dividends may be distributed only to the extent the shareholders' equity exceeds the sum of the amount of issued and paid-up capital and increased by reserves that must be maintained under the law or the articles of association. Interim dividends may be declared as provided in the articles of association and may be distributed to the extent that the shareholders' equity exceeds the amount of the issued and paid-up capital plus required legal reserves as described above as apparent from an (interim) financial statement. Interim dividends should be regarded as advances on the final dividend to be declared with respect to the financial year in which the interim dividends have been declared. Should it be determined after adoption of the annual accounts with respect to the relevant financial year, that the distribution was not permissible, the company may reclaim the paid interim dividends as unduly paid.
Under Dutch law, the articles of association may prescribe that the board of directors decide what portion of the profits are to be held as reserves. Pursuant to our articles of association, our board of directors may reserve a portion of our annual profits. The portion of our annual profits that remains unreserved may be distributed as follows: on a pari passu basis on the issued Class A, Class B and Class C shares, provided that any dividend paid on the Class C shares will not exceed 1% of the nominal value of such Class C shares. On the proposal of our board of directors, the general meeting of shareholders may resolve that we make distributions out of our general share premium account or out of any other reserves available for distributions under Dutch law, not being a reserve that must be maintained under Dutch law or pursuant to our articles of association. Dividends may be paid in the form of shares as well as in cash.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a Delaware corporation may pay dividends out of its surplus (the excess of net assets over capital), or in case there is no surplus, out of its net profits for the fiscal year in which the dividend is declared and/or the preceding fiscal year (provided that the amount of the capital of the corporation is not less than the aggregate amount of the capital represented by the issued and outstanding stock of all classes having a preference upon the distribution of assets). In determining the amount of surplus of a Delaware corporation, the assets of the corporation, including stock of subsidiaries owned by the corporation, must be valued at their fair market value as determined by the board of directors, without regard to their historical book value. Dividends may be paid in the form of common stock, property or cash.
Shareholder vote on certain reorganizations
The Netherlands. Under our articles of association, the general meeting of shareholders may resolve by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast at a general meeting of shareholders, but only upon a proposal of the board of directors, that the company conclude a legal merger (juridische fusie) or a demerger (juridische splitsing). In addition, the general meeting of shareholders must approve resolutions of the board of directors concerning an important change in the identity or character of our company or its business, in any event including:
Under Dutch law, a shareholder who owns shares representing at least 95% of the par value of a company's issued capital may institute proceedings against the company's other shareholders jointly for the transfer of their shares to that shareholder. The proceedings are held before the Enterprise Chamber (Ondernemingskamer), which may grant the claim for squeeze-out in relation to all minority shareholders and will determine the price to be paid for the shares, if necessary after appointment of experts who will offer an opinion to the Enterprise Chamber on the value of the shares.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, the vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon generally is necessary to approve a merger or consolidation or the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of a corporation. The Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to include in
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its certificate of incorporation a provision requiring for any corporate action the vote of a larger portion of the stock or of any class or series of stock than would otherwise be required.
Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, no vote of the stockholders of a surviving corporation to a merger is needed, however, unless required by the certificate of incorporation, if (i) the agreement of merger does not amend in any respect the certificate of incorporation of the surviving corporation, (ii) the shares of stock of the surviving corporation are not changed in the merger and (iii) the number of shares of common stock of the surviving corporation into which any other shares, securities or obligations to be issued in the merger may be converted does not exceed 20% of the surviving corporation's common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective date of the merger. In addition, stockholders may not be entitled to vote in certain mergers with other corporations that own 90% or more of the outstanding shares of each class of stock of such corporation, but the stockholders will be entitled to appraisal rights.
Compensation of the board of directors
The Netherlands. Under Dutch law, the shareholders must adopt the compensation policy for the board of directors, which includes the outlines of the compensation of any members of our senior management who also serve on our board of directors. Additionally, our articles of association provide that our board of directors may decide the compensation of the members of our board of directors provided it is in due observation to the general guidelines in respect of the remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors adopted by a general meeting.
Delaware. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, the stockholders do not generally have the right to approve the compensation policy for directors or the senior management of the corporation, although certain aspects of the compensation policy may be subject to stockholder vote due to the provisions of U.S. federal securities and tax law.
Material Contracts
Commercial Agreement with Microsoft
Effective as of September 7, 2025, our wholly owned subsidiary, Nebius, Inc., entered into a commercial agreement with Microsoft Corp (“Microsoft”), pursuant to which we are providing Microsoft access to dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity in clusters at our new data center in Vineland, New Jersey over a five-year term. The GPU services are being deployed in several tranches through 2025 and 2026 with the first tranche delivered in November 2025, and the second in February 2026. Subject to the satisfaction of deployment and availability of the GPU clusters, the total contract value is estimated to be up to about $17.4 billion through 2031. Microsoft may also acquire additional services and/or capacity under the agreement. The agreement includes service-level commitments and provides Microsoft with rights to receive service credits or to terminate individual tranches in the event of specified delivery delays or repeated failure to meet availability requirements.
Commercial Partnerships with Meta
2026 Agreement
On March 13, 2026, our wholly owned subsidiary, Nebius, Inc., entered into an Infrastructure Services Agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), pursuant to which we and Meta will enter into a series of orders, each for a duration of five years (each an “Order”). The Agreement and the initial Orders thereunder have a total contract value of up to approximately $27 billion. Certain of the Orders are for dedicated GPU capacity clusters across multiple locations, and for a duration of five years, with deployments in tranches throughout the first half of 2027, and each order with associated storage and connectivity services. These Orders have a total contract value of $12 billion. A further Order establishes an arrangement that provides Meta with access to any unsold capacity in respect of certain GPU clusters as specified in the agreement. It is our current intention to sell such capacity in our AI cloud to third-party customers. Under the terms of this further Order, in instances where the relevant capacity is not sold by us to other customers, Meta is obligated to purchase such unsold capacity for the remainder of the period ending five years from the date on which such unsold capacity was initially deployed. This further Order has a potential total contract value of up to $15 billion.
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2025 Agreement
On November 1, 2025, our wholly owned subsidiary, Nebius, Inc., entered into a Cloud Infrastructure Services Agreement with Meta, pursuant to which, under the first order form under that agreement, we are providing Meta access to dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity clusters (each, a “GPU Service”) over a five-year term and delivered in two tranches, respectively, along with associated storage and connectivity services. We delivered the first tranche to Meta in November 2025 and the second in February 2026. The order under the agreement has a total contract value of approximately $2.9 billion. The agreement includes service-level commitments and provides Meta with rights to receive service credits or to terminate individual tranches in the event of specified delivery delays or repeated failure to meet availability requirements.
Equity Investment with NVIDIA
On March 11, 2026, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with NVIDIA Corporation (“NVIDIA”), pursuant to which we sold, in a private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2 billion, a pre-funded Class A shares purchase warrant (the “Warrant”), exercisable to purchase an aggregate of 21,065,936 Class A shares, nominal value €0.01 per share (the “Warrant Shares”), at a purchase price of $0.0001 per Class A share, subject to certain adjustments in accordance with the terms of the Warrant. The Warrant may be exercised by NVIDIA at any time and from time to time on or after March 11, 2026, subject to certain conditions, and will expire on the date on which the Warrant is exercised in full. NVIDIA agreed that, until the date that is six months following March 11, 2026, without our prior written consent, it will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, either the Warrant or the Warrant Shares.
Acquisition of Tavily
On February 9, 2026, we and Simba Acquisition Corp., our wholly owned subsidiary (the “Merger Sub”), entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the “Tavily Merger Agreement”) with AlphaAI Technologies, Inc. (the “Target”, d/b/a Tavily), and certain other parties thereto, pursuant to which the parties intended to effectuate a merger (the “Merger”) of the Merger Sub with and into Target, with Target becoming our wholly owned subsidiary and the surviving corporation of the Merger. The Tavily Merger Agreement contains representations, warranties, indemnities and covenants customary for a transaction of this nature. On February 19, 2026, we completed our acquisition of the Target. Common stockholders of the Target will also be eligible to receive a further consideration amount based on the achievement of mutually agreed upon performance targets over a specified period; the amount earned, if any, will be satisfied at our election in cash or in Class A shares (based on the market price of such Class A shares at the time of settlement), or a combination thereof.
Convertible Notes Issued in June 2025, September 2025, and March 2026
On June 5, 2025, September 15, 2025, and March 20, 2026, we completed convertible notes issuances, summaries of which are included in our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2025 and June 5, 2025, exhibit 99.1 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025, and exhibit 99.1 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2026. See “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects” for further information regarding the June 5, 2025, and September 15, 2025, convertible notes issuances.
At-the-market Equity Program
In November 2025, we established an at-the-market (ATM) equity program for the offer and sale from time to time of up to 25 million Class A shares and entered into an equity distribution agreement dated November 12, 2025, with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. for the distribution of our Class A shares in connection with that program. No Class A shares have been offered or sold under the ATM equity program to date.
Exchange Controls
Under existing laws of the Netherlands, there are no exchange controls applicable to the transfer to persons outside of the Netherlands of dividends or other distributions with respect to, or of the proceeds from the sale of, shares
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of a Dutch company.
Taxation
Taxation in the Netherlands
General
The information set out below is a general summary of the material Dutch tax consequences in connection with the acquisition, ownership and transfer of our Class A shares. The summary does not purport to be a comprehensive description of all the Dutch tax considerations that may be relevant for a particular holder of our Class A shares, who may be subject to special tax treatment under any applicable law, and this summary is not intended to be applicable in respect of all categories of holders of the Class A shares. In particular, this summary is not applicable in respect of any holder who is, is deemed to be or is treated as a resident of the Netherlands for Dutch tax purposes nor to a holder that holds, alone or together with his partner, whether directly or indirectly, the ownership of, or certain other rights over, shares representing 5% or more of our total issued and outstanding capital (or the issued and outstanding capital of any class of shares), or rights to acquire shares, whether or not already issued, that represent at any time 5% or more of our total issued and outstanding capital (or the issued and outstanding capital of any class of shares) or the ownership of, or certain other rights over, profit participating certificates that relate to 5% or more of the annual profit and/or to 5% or more of our liquidation proceeds. Such interest in our Class A shares is further referred to as a Substantial Interest (aanmerkelijk belang).
Please note that under Dutch tax law an individual is considered as a holder of Class A shares as well if he/she is deemed to hold an interest in the Class A shares pursuant to the attribution rules of article 2.14a of the Dutch Income Tax Act 2001, with respect to property that has been segregated, for instance in a trust or a foundation.
The summary is based upon the tax laws of the Netherlands as in effect on the date of this Annual Report, as well as regulations, rulings and decisions of the Netherlands and its taxing and other authorities available on or before such date and now in effect. All references in this summary to the Netherlands and Netherlands law are to the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and its law, respectively, only. All of the foregoing is subject to change, which could apply retroactively and could affect the continuing validity of this summary. As this is a general summary, we recommend that investors or shareholders consult with their own tax advisors as to the Dutch or other tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and transfer of our Class A shares, including, in particular, the application to their particular situations of the tax considerations discussed below.
The following summary does not address the tax consequences arising in any jurisdiction other than the Netherlands in connection with the acquisition, ownership and transfer of our Class A shares.
Our company currently takes the view that it is a resident of the Netherlands for tax purposes, including for purposes of tax treaties concluded by the Netherlands, and this summary so assumes. This summary further assumes that the holders of Class A shares will be treated for Dutch tax purposes as the absolute beneficial owners of those Class A shares and any dividends (as defined below) received or realized with respect to such shares.
Dividend Withholding Tax
Dividends paid on the Class A shares to a holder of such shares are generally subject to Dutch dividend withholding tax at a rate of 15% per the Dutch dividend withholding tax Act 1965 (Wet op de dividendbelasting 1965). The term “dividends” for this purpose includes, but is not limited to:
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Generally, we are responsible for the withholding of taxes at source and the remittance of the amounts withheld to the Dutch tax authorities; the dividend withholding tax will not be for our account.
The company may, with respect to certain dividends received from qualifying non-Dutch subsidiaries, credit taxes withheld from those dividends against the Dutch withholding tax imposed on certain qualifying dividends that are redistributed by the company, generally up to a maximum of the lesser of:
The amount of Dutch withholding tax that we may retain reduces the amount of dividend withholding tax that we are required to pay to the Dutch tax authorities, but does not reduce the amount of tax we are required to withhold from dividends paid to a holder of our Class A shares.
As of January 1, 2024, a Dutch conditional withholding tax may apply at a statutory rate of 25.8% on dividends and other (deemed) distributions to certain affiliated entities of the company, as defined under the Dutch Withholding Tax Act 2021 (Wet bronbelasting 2021). This conditional withholding tax applies only to dividends and other (deemed) distributions made to entities that are either resident in or have a permanent establishment in a jurisdiction listed in the Dutch Regulation on Low-Taxing States and Non-Cooperative Jurisdictions for Tax Purposes (Regeling laagbelastende staten en niet-coöperatieve rechtsgebieden voor belastingdoeleinden). It may also apply in certain cases of deemed abuse. Under the Dutch Withholding Tax Act 2021, an entity is generally considered affiliated if there is a controlling relationship between such entity and the distributing company.
Non-residents of the Netherlands (including but not limited to U.S. holders)
The following is a description of the material Dutch tax consequences of holders of our Class A shares who under certain circumstances may not be subject to the above described 15% Dutch dividend withholding tax.
Relief at source is available to certain qualifying corporate holders of common shares if the shares are attributable to a business conducted in the Netherlands, provided the holder can demonstrate beneficial ownership of the dividend. Additionally, relief at source applies to dividend distributions for qualifying corporate holders of common shares who are residents of EU/EEA member states or of non-EU/EEA states that have a tax treaty with the Netherlands, including a dividend article. However, this relief is not available if the holder’s primary or one of the primary purposes for holding the shares is to avoid Dutch dividend withholding tax for another party, and if the shareholding lacks valid commercial reasons that reflect economic reality.
Entities (i) that are resident in another EU Member State, in a State of the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) i.e. Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, or a country outside the EU/EEA which has an arrangement for the exchange of tax information with the Netherlands; and (ii) that are not subject to taxation by reference to profits in such State, in principle have the possibility to obtain a full refund of Dutch dividend withholding tax, provided such entities would not have been subject to Dutch corporate income tax either had they been resident within the Netherlands, and provided further that such entities do not perform a similar function to that of a tax exempt investment institutions or fiscal investment institutions as referred to in the Dutch Corporate Income Tax Act 1969, and with respect to entities resident in a country outside the EU/EEA which have an arrangement for the exchange of tax information with the Netherlands, provided such entities hold their Class A shares as a portfolio investment, i.e. such shares are not held with a view to the establishment or maintenance of lasting and direct economic links between such holder of Class A shares and our company, and these shares do not allow such holder to effectively participate in the management or control of our company.
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Further, a holder of Class A shares who is resident in another EU Member State or in a State of the EEA i.e. Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, in principle has the possibility to obtain a refund of Dutch dividend withholding tax, provided that (i) such dividends are not taxable with the holder of Class A shares for personal income tax purposes or corporate income tax purposes and (ii) insofar the Dutch dividend withholding tax exceeds the amount of personal income tax or corporate income tax that would have been due had the holder of Class A shares been resident in the Netherlands, and with respect to a holder of Class A shares resident in a country outside of the EU/EEA which has an arrangement for the exchange of tax information with the Netherlands, provided the Class A shares are held by such holder as a portfolio investment, i.e. such shares are not held with a view to the establishment or maintenance of lasting and direct economic links between such holder of Class A shares and our company, and these shares do not allow such holder to effectively participate in the management or control of our company.
A holder of Class A shares who is considered to be a resident of the United States and is entitled to the benefits of the 1992 Double Taxation Treaty between the United States and the Netherlands (“U.S. holder”), as amended most recently by the Protocol entered into force December 28, 2004 (the “Treaty”) will generally be subject to Dutch dividend withholding tax at the rate of 15% unless such U.S. holder:
U.S. holders that are exempt pension trusts or exempt organizations as described in articles 35 and 36, respectively, of the Treaty may qualify for an exemption from Dutch withholding tax and may generally claim (i) in the case of an exempt pension trust full exemption at source by timely filing two completed copies of form IB 96 USA signed by the U.S. holder accompanied with U.S. form 6166 (as issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and valid for the relevant tax year) or (ii) in the case of either an exempt pension trust or an exempt organization a full refund by filing through the withholding agent =(which is generally the company) one of the following forms signed by the U.S. holder within three years after the end of the calendar year in which the withholding tax was levied:
Taxes on Income and Capital Gains
The description of taxation set out in this section of this Annual Report is not intended for any holder of Class A shares who is:
Non-residents of the Netherlands (including, but not limited to, U.S. holders)
A non-resident of the Netherlands who holds Class A shares is generally not subject to Dutch income or corporate income tax (other than dividend withholding tax described above) on the income and capital gains derived from the Class A shares, provided that:
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A U.S. holder that is entitled to the benefits of the Treaty and whose Class A shares are not attributable to a Dutch enterprise or deemed enterprise, will generally not be subject to Dutch taxes on any capital gain realized on the disposal of such Class A shares.
Gift, Estate or Inheritance Taxes
No Dutch gift, estate or inheritance taxes will arise on the transfer of Class A shares by way of a gift by, or on the death of, a holder of Class A shares who is neither resident nor deemed to be resident in the Netherlands, unless in the case of a gift of the Class A shares by an individual who at the date of the gift was neither resident nor deemed to be resident in the Netherlands and (i) such individual dies within 180 days after the date of the gift, while being resident or deemed to be resident in the Netherlands; or (ii) the gift of the Class A shares is made under a condition precedent and the holder of these shares is resident, or is deemed to be resident, in the Netherlands at the time the condition is fulfilled.
For purposes of Dutch gift, estate and inheritance taxes, an individual who holds the Dutch nationality will be deemed to be resident in the Netherlands if he or she has been resident in the Netherlands at any time during the 10 years preceding the date of the gift or his or her death. Additionally, for purposes of Dutch gift tax, an individual not holding the Dutch nationality will be deemed to be resident in the Netherlands if he or she has been resident in the Netherlands at any time during the 12 months preceding the date of the gift. Applicable tax treaties may override deemed residency.
Value-Added Tax
There is no Dutch value-added tax payable in respect of payments in consideration for the sale of the Class A shares (other than value added taxes on fees payable in respect of services not exempt from Dutch value added tax).
Other Taxes and Duties
There is no Dutch registration tax, capital tax, customs duty, stamp duty or any other similar documentary tax or duty other than court fees payable in the Netherlands by a holder of Class A shares in respect of or in connection with the execution, delivery and enforcement by legal proceedings (including any foreign judgment in the courts of the Netherlands) of the Class A shares.
Residence
Other than as set forth above, a holder of Class A shares will not become or be deemed to become a resident of the Netherlands, nor will a holder of Class A shares otherwise become subject to taxation in the Netherlands, solely by reason of holding the Class A shares.
Taxation in the United States
The following summary of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of our Class A shares is based upon current law and does not purport to be a comprehensive discussion of all the tax considerations that may be relevant to a decision to purchase our Class A shares. This summary is based on current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, existing, final, temporary and proposed United States Treasury Regulations, administrative rulings and judicial decisions, in each case as available on the date of this Annual Report. All of the foregoing are subject to change, which change could apply retroactively and could affect the tax consequences described below.
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This section summarizes the material U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. holders, as defined below, of Class A shares. This summary addresses only the U.S. federal income tax considerations for U.S. holders that hold the Class A shares as capital assets. This summary does not address all U.S. federal income tax matters that may be relevant to a particular U.S. holder, nor does it address any state, local or foreign tax matters or matters relating to any U.S. federal tax other than the income tax. Each investor should consult its own professional tax advisor with respect to the tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the Class A shares. This summary does not address tax considerations applicable to a holder of Class A shares that may be subject to special tax rules including, without limitation, the following:
Further, this summary does not address alternative minimum tax consequences or indirect effects on the holders of equity interests in entities that own our Class A shares. In addition, this discussion does not consider the U.S. tax consequences to non-U.S. holders of Class A shares.
For the purposes of this summary, a “U.S. holder” is a beneficial owner of Class A shares that is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
If a partnership holds Class A shares, the tax treatment of a partner will generally depend upon the status of the partner and upon the activities of the partnership.
We will not seek a ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) with regard to the U.S. federal income tax treatment of an investment in our Class A shares, and we cannot assure you that the IRS will agree with the conclusions set forth below.
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THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TAX ADVICE. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS, AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES ARISING UNDER THE U.S. FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.
Distributions. Subject to the discussion under “Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations” below, the gross amount of any distribution (that is, the net distribution received plus any tax withheld therefrom) actually or constructively received by a U.S. holder with respect to Class A shares will be taxable to the U.S. holder as ordinary dividend income to the extent paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. Distributions in excess of our current and accumulated earnings and profits will be nontaxable to the U.S. holder to the extent of, and will be applied against and reduce, the U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in the Class A shares. Distributions in excess of our current and accumulated earnings and profits and such adjusted tax basis will generally be taxable to the U.S. holder as capital gain from the sale or exchange of property. However, since we do not calculate our earnings and profits under U.S. federal income tax principles, it is expected that any distribution will be reported as a dividend, even if that distribution would otherwise be treated as a nontaxable return of capital or as capital gain under the rules described above. The amount of any distribution of property other than cash will be the fair market value of that property on the date of distribution. The U.S. holder will not be eligible for any dividends received deduction in respect of the dividend otherwise allowable to corporations.
Subject to certain exceptions for short-term and hedged positions, the U.S. dollar amount of dividends received by an individual U.S. holder with respect to the Class A shares is currently subject to taxation a maximum rate of 20% if the dividends are “qualified dividends.” Dividends paid on the Class A shares This reduced income tax rate is applicable to dividends paid by “qualified foreign corporations” to such non-corporate U.S. holders that meet the applicable requirements, including a minimum holding period (generally, at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the ex-dividend date). Dividends paid by us will not qualify for the 20% U.S. federal income tax rate cap if we are treated, for the tax year in which the dividends are paid or the preceding tax year, as a “passive foreign investment company” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as discussed below. Dividends paid by us that are not treated as qualified dividends will be taxable at the normal (and currently higher) ordinary income tax rates, except to the extent that they are taxable otherwise if we are a passive foreign investment company as described below.
Dividends received by a U.S. holder with respect to Class A shares generally will be treated as foreign source income for the purposes of calculating that holder’s foreign tax credit limitation. Subject to applicable conditions and limitations, and subject to the discussion in the next two paragraphs, any Dutch income tax withheld on dividends may be deducted from taxable income or credited against a U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability. The limitation on foreign taxes eligible for the U.S. foreign tax credit is calculated separately with respect to specific classes of income. For this purpose, dividends distributed by us generally will constitute “passive category income” (but, in the case of some U.S. holders, may constitute “general category income”).
A “United States person,” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code, that is an individual, an estate or a nonexempt trust is generally subject to a 3.8% surtax on the lesser of (i) the United States person’s “net investment income” for the year and (ii) the excess of the United States person’s “modified adjusted gross income” for that year over a threshold (which, in the case of an individual, will be between $125,000 and $250,000, depending on the individual’s U.S. tax filing status). A U.S. holder’s net investment income generally will include, among other things, dividends on, and gains from the sale or other taxable disposition of, our Class A shares, unless (with certain exceptions) those dividends or gains are derived in the ordinary course of a trade or business. Net investment income may be reduced by deductions properly allocable thereto; however, the U.S. foreign tax credit may not be available to reduce the surtax.
Upon making a distribution to shareholders, we may be permitted to retain a portion of the amounts withheld as Dutch dividend withholding tax. See “—Taxation in the Netherlands—Dividend Withholding Tax—General.” The amount of Dutch withholding tax that we may retain reduces the amount of dividend withholding tax that we are required to pay to the Dutch tax authorities but does not reduce the amount of tax we are required to withhold from dividends paid to U.S. holders. In these circumstances, it is likely that the portion of dividend withholding tax that we are not required to pay to the Dutch tax authorities with respect to dividends distributed to U.S. holders would not qualify as a creditable tax for U.S. foreign tax credit purposes.
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Sale or other disposition of Class A shares. A U.S. holder will generally recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes upon the sale or exchange of Class A shares in an amount equal to the difference between the U.S. dollar value of the amount realized from such sale or exchange and the U.S. holder’s tax basis for those Class A shares. Subject to the discussion under “Passive Foreign Investment Company Considerations” below, this gain or loss will be capital gain or loss and will generally be treated as from sources within the United States. Capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if the U.S. holder held the Class A shares for more than one year at the time of the sale or exchange; in general, long-term capital gains realized by non-corporate U.S. holders are eligible for reduced rates of tax. The deductibility of losses incurred upon the sale or other disposition of capital assets is subject to limitations.
Passive foreign investment company considerations. Certain adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences could apply to a U.S. holder if the company is treated as a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”) for any taxable year during which the U.S. holder holds the Class A shares. A corporation organized outside the United States generally will be classified as a PFIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes in any taxable year in which, after applying the applicable look-through rules, either: (i) at least 75% of its gross income is passive income, or (ii) at least 50% of the average gross value of its assets is attributable to assets that produce passive income or are held for the production of passive income. In arriving at this calculation, a pro rata portion of the income and assets of each corporation in which we own, directly or indirectly, at least a 25% interest by value, must be taken into account. Passive income for this purpose generally includes dividends, interest, royalties, rents and gains from commodities and securities transactions.
PFIC status depends on the composition of a company’s income and assets and the fair market value of its assets from time to time, as well as on the application of complex statutory and regulatory rules that are subject to potentially varying or changing interpretations. As such, there can be no assurance that the company has never been, is not, and will not become a PFIC for any tax year during which U.S. Holders hold Class A shares. U.S. holders should consult with their tax advisors regarding the potential application of these rules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we believe that the company was not a PFIC for any prior tax year after 2013. Based on estimates of our gross income and the average value of our gross assets, and on the nature of the active businesses conducted by our “25% or greater” owned subsidiaries, we do not expect the company to be a PFIC in the current taxable year and do not expect the company to become one in the foreseeable future. There is a change of business exception to PFIC status that, in general terms, applies if a foreign corporation otherwise would be a PFIC for a year because it has disposed of one or more active businesses, so long as the foreign corporation is not a PFIC during the two succeeding years, and that might apply to us if we were found to have been a PFIC for the 2024 tax year, after taking into account the significant divestment transaction we completed in 2024. There is limited guidance as to the application of this exception, and it is unclear whether this exception would apply to us, if it were determined, absent this exception, that we were a PFIC for the 2024 tax year. In addition, because our status for any taxable year will depend on the composition of our income and assets and the value of our assets for such year, and because this is a factual determination made annually after the end of each taxable year, there can be no assurance that we will not be considered a PFIC for the current taxable year or any future taxable year. In particular, the value of our assets may be determined in large part by reference to the market price of our Class A shares, which may fluctuate considerably.
If the company were a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. holder held Class A shares, gain recognized by the U.S. holder on a sale or other disposition (including a pledge) of the Class A shares would be allocated ratably over the U.S. holder’s holding period for the Class A shares. The amounts allocated to the taxable year of the sale or other disposition and to any year before we became a PFIC would be taxed as ordinary income. The amount allocated to each other taxable year would be subject to tax at the highest rate in effect for individuals or corporations, as appropriate, for that taxable year, and an interest charge would be imposed on the resulting tax liability for that taxable year. Similar rules would apply to the extent any distribution in respect of Class A shares exceeds 125% of the average of the annual distributions on Class A shares received by a U.S. holder during the preceding three years or the holder’s holding period, whichever is shorter. Elections may be available that would result in alternative treatments (such as a mark-to-market treatment) of the Class A shares. U.S. holders should consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the PFIC rules to their investment in Class A shares. In addition, if we are considered a PFIC for the current taxable year or any future taxable year, U.S. holders will be required to file annual information returns for such year, whether or not the U.S. holder disposed of any Class A shares or received any distributions in respect of Class A shares during such year.
Backup Withholding and Information Reporting. U.S. holders generally will be subject to information reporting requirements with respect to dividends on Class A shares and on the proceeds from the sale, exchange or disposition of Class A shares that are paid within the United States or through U.S. related financial intermediaries, unless the U.S. holder is an “exempt recipient.” In addition, certain U.S. holders who are individuals may be required to report to the
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IRS information relating to their ownership of the Class A shares, subject to certain exceptions (including an exception for shares held in an account maintained by a U.S. financial institution). U.S. holders may be subject to backup withholding (currently at 24%) on dividends and on the proceeds from the sale, exchange or disposition of Class A shares that are paid within the United States or through U.S. related financial intermediaries, unless the U.S. holder provides a taxpayer identification number and a duly executed IRS Form W9 or otherwise establishes an exemption. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may be allowed as a refund or a credit against a U.S. holder’s federal income tax liability provided that the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.
Documents on Display
We are subject to the periodic reporting and other informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Under the Exchange Act, we are required to file reports and other information with the SEC. Specifically, we are required to file annually a Form 20-F no later than four months after the close of each fiscal year, which is December 31. Such reports and other information, when so filed, may be accessed at www.sec.gov/edgar or at https://group.nebius.com/sec-filings. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of quarterly reports and proxy statements.
Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
See “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.”
Item 12. Description of Securities Other Than Equity Securities.
Item 13. Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies.
Item 14. Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds.
Item 15. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of the company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2025. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2025, the company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that, as of such date, the company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Our management has assessed the effectiveness of the company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. In making its assessment of internal control over financial reporting, management used the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on that evaluation, we concluded that as of December 31, 2025, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective.
In making the assessment, we identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
We reported material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 20-F. We have concluded that these material weaknesses reflected the significant growth in our business and the substantial changes in our organization following the complex divestment transaction we completed in 2024. Although we took extensive steps in 2024 to create the infrastructure to operate independently from the larger divested businesses, and made significant progress in 2025 and to date in 2026 to develop and implement internal controls appropriate for our large and growing operations, we were unable to complete the implementation of all necessary controls during 2025.
The material weaknesses that we identified in 2025 were as follows:
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We believe that these control deficiencies did not result in a misstatement to our annual or interim financial statements. However, each of these control deficiencies could result in a misstatement of the aforementioned accounts or disclosures that would result in a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected, and accordingly, we determined that these control deficiencies constitute material weaknesses.
As a result, management concluded that we did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in respect of fixed assets management and TripleTen revenue recognition as of December 31, 2025.
Remediation activities
In 2025 and to date in 2026, management implemented a number of measures to improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and successfully remediated material weaknesses related to revenue recognition in our core business and information technology general controls, as well as a number of other control deficiencies that had been identified as of December 31, 2024. These efforts included measures to improve the overall control environment related to fixed assets management, and revenue recognition in respect of our Triple Ten business. Although we made significant progress in this regard in 2025 and to date in 2026, the remediation efforts in respect of the material weaknesses identified as of December 31, 2025 are ongoing. The following remedial actions have been undertaken to date:
We may not be able to fully remediate the two identified material weaknesses until the steps described above have been completed and our internal controls have been operating effectively for a sufficient period of time. We believe we have already made progress and will continue to make progress in our remediation plan during the year ending December 31, 2026, but cannot assure you that we will be able to fully remediate the material weaknesses in 2026. If the steps we take do not correct the material weaknesses in a timely manner, we will be unable to conclude that we maintain effective internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, there could continue to be a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. We also may continue to incur significant costs to execute various aspects of our remediation plan but cannot provide a reasonable estimate of such costs at this time.
The process of implementing an effective financial reporting system is a continuous effort that requires us to anticipate and react to changes in our business and the economic and regulatory environments and to expend significant resources to maintain a financial reporting system that is adequate to satisfy our reporting obligations. As we continue to take actions to improve our internal control over financial reporting, we may take additional actions to address control deficiencies or modify certain of the remediation measures described above.
Although we have made significant progress in 2025 and to date in 2026 to enhance our internal control over financial reporting, we are still in the process of implementing, documenting and testing these processes, procedures and controls. Additional time is required to complete implementation and to assess and ensure the sustainability of these procedures. We will continue to devote significant time and attention to these remedial efforts. However, the material weaknesses cannot be considered remediated until the applicable remedial controls operate for a sufficient period of time
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and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
Changes in internal control over financial reporting
There were significant changes in our financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) in 2025 as we addressed the material weaknesses and control deficiencies that were identified as of December 31, 2024. In particular, we successfully remediated two material weaknesses that had been identified in the prior period, implemented a robust control framework regarding the revenue recognition process in Nebius AI business and implemented a robust control framework related to our overall IT general controls environment.
There have been no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in an evaluation thereof that occurred during the fiscal year 2025 that materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Item 16A. Audit Committee Financial Expert.
Mr. Ryan qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as defined in Item 16A of Form 20-F and as determined by our board of directors.
Item 16B. Code of Ethics.
We have adopted a written code of ethics that applies to our board of directors, all of our employees, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, and any of the company’s direct and indirect subsidiaries. A copy of the code of ethics, which we refer to as our “Code of Business Ethics and Conduct”, is available on our website at nebius.com/governance-documents. Any amendments to our code of ethics will be disclosed on our website within five business days of the occurrence.
Item 16C. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
The following table summarizes the fees of Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V., our independent registered public accounting firm, or its affiliates billed to us for the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years:
(USD in million)
Audit Fees(1)
2.2
6.3
Other Audit related Fees(2)
All Other Fees(3)
Total Fees
3.0
6.8
Not included in the table above are fees of $3.5 million billed by Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust - Audit” to us in connection with their audit of discontinued operations and other services for the 2024 fiscal year, and fees of $0.2 million billed by Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust - Audit” to us in connection with their assurance services rendered for the issuance of comfort letters for the 2025 fiscal year.
Pre-Approval Policies for Non-Audit Services
The audit committee pre-approved all of the non-audit services performed for us by Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V.
Item 16D. Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees.
Item 16E. Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers.
There have been no purchases of equity securities for the year ended December 31, 2025.
The consideration received by Nebius Group for the divestment that we completed in 2024 consisted of a combination of cash and Class A shares. The divestment was implemented in two closings, on May 17, and July 12, 2024. At the first closing, we received 67,632,122 Class A shares; at the second closing, we received 94,853,603 Class A shares. The weighted-average cost per Class A share received was $14.1 (based on the deemed repurchase price of RUB 1,251.8 per Class A share and applicable exchange rates as of the dates of each transfer).
Total number of shares
Maximum number of Class A
Total number of
Average
purchased as part of
shares that may yet be
Class A shares
price per
publicly announced
purchased under the plan
Period
purchased
Class A share
plans or programs
or programs
May 2024
67,632,122
See above
July 2024
94,853,603
162,485,725
Item 16F. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.
As disclosed in the company’s Report on Form 6-K filed on February 12, 2026, the board of directors has resolved, on the recommendation of the Audit Committee, to recommend that the General Meeting of the company approve the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. The dismissal and termination of Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V. (“Reanda”) is to be effective upon shareholder approval of the appointment of Deloitte at the company’s 2026 annual general meeting.
For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, the reports of Reanda on the company’s financial statements did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principle and there was no disagreement with management that constituted a reportable event as contemplated by Item 16F(a)(1)(iv) of Form 20-F. Reanda also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Reanda’s reports dated April 30, 2025 and April 30, 2026 expressed an adverse opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 and through the date hereof, there was no disagreement between the company and Reanda on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreement, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Reanda, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of such disagreement in connection with its audit reports on the company’s financial statements.
During the year ended December 31, 2025 and through the date hereof, none of the reportable events listed in paragraphs (a)(1)(v)(A) through (a)(1)(v)(D) of Item 16F of Form 20-F promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission occurred.
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 and through the date hereof, the Company did not consult with Deloitte regarding either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specific completed or proposed transaction, the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, or provide other written or oral information that was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to an accounting, auditing, or financial reporting issue or (ii) any matter that was the subject of a disagreement, as that term is defined in Item 16F(a)(1)(iv) and the related instructions to this Item, or a “reportable event” as described in Item 16F(a)(1)(v).
The Company has provided Reanda with a copy of the foregoing disclosures and has requested that Reanda furnish a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees with such statements. A copy of Reanda’s letter, dated April 30, 2026, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Annual Report on Form 20-F.
Item 16G. Corporate Governance.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as related rules subsequently implemented by the SEC, requires foreign private issuers, including our company, to comply with various corporate governance practices. In addition, Nasdaq rules provide that foreign private issuers may follow home country practice in lieu of the Nasdaq corporate governance standards, subject to certain exceptions and except to the extent that such exemptions would be contrary to U.S. federal securities laws. The home country practices followed by our company in lieu of NASDAQ rules are described below:
We intend to take all actions necessary for us to maintain compliance as a foreign private issuer under the applicable corporate governance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the rules adopted by the SEC and Nasdaq’s listing standards. As a Dutch company listed on a government recognized stock exchange, we are required to apply the provisions of the Dutch Corporate Governance Code, or explain any deviation from the provisions of such code in our Dutch Annual Report required by Dutch law.
Item 16H. Mine Safety Disclosure.
Item 16J. Insider Trading Policies.
We have adopted insider trading policies and procedures governing the purchase, sale, and other dispositions of our securities by directors, senior management, and employees that are reasonably designed to promote compliance with applicable insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and applicable listing standards, which are filed as Exhibit 11 to this Annual Report on Form 20-F.
Item 16K. Cybersecurity.
We recognize the importance of assessing, identifying, and managing material risks associated with cybersecurity threats. These risks include, among other things, operational risks, the risk of intellectual property theft, fraud, harm to employees or third parties with which we conduct business and violation of data privacy or security laws.
Identifying and assessing cybersecurity risk is integrated into our overall risk management systems and processes. Cybersecurity risks related to our business are identified and addressed through a multi-faceted approach that consists of what we deem as robust information technology security, testing of our information systems and third-party assessments. To defend against, detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents, we, among other things, conduct regular monitoring of our environment by our internal security tools, conduct employee trainings, monitor emerging laws and regulations related to data protection and information security and implement appropriate changes.
Consistent with our cybersecurity risk management policies and controls, we have processes in place for: (i) regular vulnerability scanning and technical monitoring of most of our systems, (ii) detection and analysis of cybersecurity incidents that present risk of unauthorized access to company assets, (iii) containment, eradication and data recovery (exist partly), and (iv) post-incident analysis. Such incident responses are overseen by leaders from our information technology, finance, legal and compliance teams.
Cybersecurity events and data incidents are evaluated, assessed based on severity and prioritized for response and remediation. Under our incident response plan and related policies, incidents are evaluated to determine materiality as well as operational and business impact and reviewed for privacy impact. Our team of cybersecurity professionals then collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to further analyze the risk to the company, and form detection, mitigation and remediation strategies. As part of the above processes, we regularly engage external consultants to assess our internal cybersecurity programs and compliance with applicable practices and standards.
Cybersecurity is an important part of our risk management processes and an area of focus for our board of directors and management team. Our board of directors has delegated responsibility to the Audit Committee for the oversight of risks from cybersecurity threats. Members of the Audit Committee receive regular updates from senior management, including leaders from our information technology, legal and compliance teams regarding matters of cybersecurity. This includes existing and new cybersecurity risks, information on how management is addressing and/or mitigating those risks, cybersecurity incidents (if any) and status on key information security initiatives.
Despite our cybersecurity efforts, we may not be successful in preventing or mitigating a cybersecurity incident that could have a material adverse effect on our business. For a discussion of cybersecurity risks applicable to us, see the section headed “Risk Factors”.
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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms (PCAOB ID: 7018; PCAOB ID: 1326)
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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024, and 2025
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Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025
F-9
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income/(Loss) for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025
F-11
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025
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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the shareholders and the board of directors of Nebius Group N.V.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Nebius Group N.V. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income/(loss), cash flows and shareholders’ equity, for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”).
In our opinion,
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and our report dated April 30, 2026 expressed an adverse opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
We did not audit the consolidated financial statements of International Public Joint-Stock Company YANDEX, a subsidiary that was divested on May 16, 2024, whose results from January 1, 2024, to May 16, 2024, are reflected as net income from discontinued operations of USD 477.7 million net of tax. Those financial statements were audited by Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust – Audit”, whose report has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amounts included for International Public Joint-Stock Company YANDEX, is based solely on the report of Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust – Audit”.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits and the report of Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust – Audit” provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on
the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Revenue Recognition
Description of the Matter
As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company generates revenue from providing cloud-based artificial intelligence services, including certain significant customer agreements entered into during the year ended December 31, 2025. Revenue is recognized as the services are made available and delivered to customers, based on the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for those services. Significant judgment is required in determining whether the significant customer agreements represent service arrangements, or whether they convey the right to control the use of identified assets and therefore contain a lease. In addition, judgment is required in evaluating contract terms that may affect the timing and amount of revenue recognized.
We identified revenue recognition for certain significant customer contracts as a critical audit matter because of the significant judgments involved in determining whether such contracts should be accounted for as service contracts or lease contracts, as well as in assessing how specific contractual terms impact the timing and measurement of revenue recognized. Auditing these judgments required extensive audit effort and a high degree of auditor judgment.
How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit
We obtained an understanding of and tested controls over revenue recognition and lease accounting. We evaluated the Company’s accounting policies for consistency with applicable accounting standards. For selected contracts, we inspected executed agreements and assessed management’s identification of performance obligations and whether such arrangements contain lease components. We tested the application of revenue recognition methodologies, including the timing of revenue recognition and allocation of consideration. We also evaluated the treatment of key contractual terms, including capacity commitments and provisions that may give rise to variable consideration, and tested the mathematical accuracy of revenue recognized during the period.
Investment in ClickHouse
As described in Note 5 to the consolidated financial statements, in May 2025, ClickHouse Inc. (“ClickHouse”) completed a Series C convertible preferred stock financing (the “Series C Financing”). The Series C Financing represents an observable price change from an orderly transaction involving equity securities similar to those held by the Company. As a result, the Company remeasured its investment in ClickHouse in accordance with ASC 321 and recognized an upward adjustment in the amount of $597.4 million. The determination of fair value involved subjective judgment and the use of key management assumptions.
We identified the valuation of the Company’s investment in ClickHouse as a critical audit matter due to the judgment involved in assessing the observable price change and the remeasurement of the investment. Auditing these areas required extensive effort and a high degree of auditor judgment.
We evaluated the Series C Financing by assessing whether it represented an observable price change from an orderly transaction involving equity securities similar to those held by the Company. We assessed the Company’s determination of fair value, including the use of key management assumptions, with the assistance of our valuation specialist. We tested the mathematical accuracy of the remeasurement and evaluated the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used. We also assessed the adequacy of the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
Property and equipment
As described in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company experienced a significant year-over-year increase in property and equipment, driven by substantial capital expenditures related to the rapid expansion of GPU-based server infrastructure, data center facilities, and related equipment used to support the Company’s AI cloud platform. The accounting for property and equipment involved significant judgment due to the scale and complexity of
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capital expenditures, including determining whether costs meet the criteria for capitalization, the appropriate timing of when assets are placed in use and depreciation should commence.
We identified property and equipment as a critical audit matter due to the significant increase in capital expenditure during the year and the judgment involved in determining the timing of placed-in-use dates, the appropriateness of capitalized costs. Auditing these areas required extensive effort and a high degree of auditor judgment.
We obtained an understanding of and tested controls over property and equipment, including controls over capitalization and depreciation. We evaluated the Company’s accounting policies for consistency with applicable accounting standards. For selected additions, we inspected supporting documentation to assess whether costs were appropriately capitalized, and procedures performed to test the existence of selected assets. We evaluated management’s determination of placed-in-use dates and tested the timing of depreciation commencement for a sample of assets. We also tested the mathematical accuracy of depreciation expense and evaluated the adequacy of related disclosures.
/s/ Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V.
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2024. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
April 30, 2026
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Adverse Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited internal control over financial reporting of Nebius Group N.V. ( “the Company”) as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control —Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, because of the effect of the material weaknesses described below on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, the Company has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control —Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The following material weaknesses have been identified and included in management’s assessment:
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of December 31, 2025, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income / (loss), stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes. These material weaknesses were considered in determining the nature, timing and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the 2025 consolidated financial statements, and this report does not affect our report dated April 30, 2026 which expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2024.
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To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Nebius Group N.V.
We have audited the consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income/(loss), cash flows and shareholders’ equity of Nebius Group N.V. (formerly known as Yandex N.V.) and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) for the year ended December 31, 2023, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the results of operations and cash flows of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit of these consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Substantial Doubt about the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern Has Been Removed
Management and we previously concluded there was substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1, management has subsequently taken certain actions, which management and we have concluded remove that substantial doubt.
/s/ Joint-Stock Company “Technologies of Trust – Audit”
Moscow, Russian Federation
April 26, 2024, except with respect to the matter that alleviated previous substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, as to which the date is April 30, 2025, and except for the effects of discontinued operations and the change in reporting currency discussed in Note 1 (not presented herein) and the change in composition of reportable segments discussed in Note 15 (not presented herein) to the consolidated financial statements appearing under Item 18 of the Company’s 2024 annual report on the Form 20-F, as to which the date is April 30, 2025, and except for the effects of discontinued operations discussed in Note 1 and the change in composition of reportable segments discussed in Note 15 to the consolidated financial statements, as to which the date is April 30, 2026.
We have served as the Company’s auditor from 2021 to 2024.
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions of U.S. dollars (“$”), except share and per share data)d
As of December 31,
Notes
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
2,434.7
3,678.1
Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $0.1 and $4.0, respectively
11.2
720.3
Prepaid expenses
22.2
34.8
VAT reclaimable
6.2
131.4
Other current assets
37.6
146.8
Current assets of discontinued operations
21.4
Total current assets
2,533.3
4,711.4
846.7
5,553.3
Intangible assets
4.9
19.7
Operating lease right-of-use assets
44.8
918.8
Equity method investments
6.4
11.1
Investments in non-marketable equity securities
90.7
836.6
Deferred tax assets
11.8
Other non-current assets
13.4
367.9
Non-current assets of discontinued operations
0.7
Total non-current assets
1,015.3
7,719.2
TOTAL ASSETS
3,548.6
12,430.6
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities
228.0
1,210.1
Debt, current
6.1
24.5
Income and non-income taxes payable
5.5
17.7
Deferred revenue, current
16.3
275.5
Current liabilities of discontinued operations
8.1
Total current liabilities
264.0
1,527.8
Operating lease liabilities
30.3
760.5
Debt, non-current
4,103.2
Deferred revenue, non-current
1,302.0
Other accrued liabilities
0.6
143.1
Total non-current liabilities
30.9
6,308.8
Total liabilities
294.9
7,836.6
Commitments and contingencies
Shareholders’ equity:
Ordinary shares: par value (Class A €0.01, Class B €0.10 and Class C €0.09); shares authorized (Class A: 500,000,000, Class B: 37,138,658 and 35,698,674, respectively, and Class C: 37,748,658 and 35,698,674, respectively); shares issued (Class A: 326,342,270 and 288,489,061, respectively, Class B: 35,698,674 and 33,551,883, respectively, and Class C: nil and 2,146,791, respectively); shares outstanding (Class A: 200,054,926 and 219,465,088, respectively, Class B: 35,698,674 and 33,551,883, respectively, and Class C: nil)
9.2
8.4
Treasury shares at cost (Class A: 126,287,344 and 69,023,973, respectively)
(1,968.1)
(1,075.7)
Additional paid-in capital
2,016.7
2,360.9
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
(22.1)
(0.1)
Retained earnings
3,218.0
3,300.5
Total shareholders’ equity
3,253.7
4,594.0
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In millions of U.S. dollars (“$”), except share and per share data)
Cost of revenues(1)
Product development(1)
Sales, general and administrative(1)
7, 9
Net income / (loss) from discontinued operations
564.9
(289.4)
72.7
Net income / (loss)
265.9
(641.4)
82.5
Net income from discontinued operations attributable to non-controlling interests
(24.6)
Net income / (loss) attributable to Nebius Group N.V.
241.3
Net income / (loss) from continuing operations per Class A and Class B share:
Basic
(0.81)
(1.25)
0.04
Diluted
Net income / (loss) from discontinued operations per Class A and Class B share:
1.46
(1.03)
0.30
0.29
Net income / (loss) per Class A and Class B share:
0.65
(2.28)
0.34
0.33
Weighted average number of Class A and Class B shares used in per share computation:
370,839,686
281,005,226
242,531,291
247,679,946
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)
(In millions of U.S. dollars)
Net income/(loss) attributable to Nebius Group N.V.
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests from discontinued operations
24.6
Foreign currency translation adjustment:
Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of tax of nil
(1,114.6)
(83.2)
22.8
Reallocation adjustment, net of tax of nil
(102.5)
2,428.6
(0.8)
Total comprehensive income / (loss)
(951.2)
1,704.0
104.5
Total comprehensive (income) / loss attributable to noncontrolling interests
35.0
Comprehensive income / (loss) attributable to Nebius Group N.V.
(916.2)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
CASH FLOWS PROVIDED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Adjustments to reconcile net income / (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation of property and equipment
27.9
75.2
411.0
Amortization of intangible assets
1.4
1.9
6.9
Operating lease right-of-use assets amortization
7.1
8.7
50.6
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs, net of interest expense capitalized
21.2
Share-based compensation expense
Deferred income tax expense / (benefit)
(2.8)
(3.4)
Foreign exchange (gains) / losses
2.4
(27.2)
(598.9)
10.9
24.3
Provision for expected credit losses
(0.2)
0.9
(0.6)
55.5
Changes in operating assets and liabilities excluding the effect of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable
2.3
(9.8)
(714.6)
(5.6)
(14.8)
Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities and non-income taxes payable
1.5
(28.0)
(29.0)
Deferred revenue
10.0
1,565.8
Other assets
(7.8)
(23.7)
(339.2)
(6.1)
(101.8)
Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities – continuing operations
Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities – discontinued operations
1,051.8
515.5
(17.1)
Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities
829.8
245.6
384.8
CASH FLOWS PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
(82.9)
(807.5)
(4,066.0)
Proceeds from Divestment, net of cash of discontinued operations sold
1,283.2
Proceeds from the sale of the remaining equity interest in Divested businesses
184.2
Investments in debt securities
(10.0)
Proceeds from maturity of debt securities
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment
1.6
Investments in term deposits
(75.0)
Investment in Toloka, net of cash of discontinued operations deconsolidated
(42.7)
(50.0)
Other investing activities
4.5
Net cash provided by / (used in) investing activities – continuing operations
Net cash used in investing activities– discontinued operations
(1,119.2)
(360.4)
Net cash provided by / (used in) investing activities
(1,212.1)
311.6
(4,229.3)
CASH FLOWS PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from sale of equity securities
700.0
1,150.0
Proceeds from issuance of convertible notes
4,162.5
Convertible notes issuance costs
(89.3)
Treasury shares issuance costs
(32.5)
(23.8)
Withholding tax paid
(181.5)
Proceeds from issuance of SAFE instruments
100.0
Repayments of debt
(0.7)
Proceeds from exercise of share options / (Repurchase of equity classified awards)
Net cash provided by financing activities – continuing operations
Net cash provided by financing activities– discontinued operations
375.6
168.7
825.5
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents
(102.6)
(23.6)
(9.7)
Net change in cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents
(109.3)
1,359.1
1,271.3
Cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
1,200.5
1,091.2
2,450.3
Cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents, end of period
3,721.6
Less cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents of discontinued operations, end of period
(977.1)
(14.9)
Cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents of continuing operations, end of period
114.1
2,435.4
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued)
RECONCILIATION OF CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS:
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
1,181.9
1,076.1
2,449.6
Restricted cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
18.6
15.1
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
Restricted cash and cash equivalents, end of period
43.5
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period – continuing operations
110.7
Restricted cash and cash equivalents, end of period – continuing operations
3.4
Cash and cash equivalents, and restricted cash and cash equivalents, end of period- continuing operations
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Cash paid for income taxes
(2.0)
(4.5)
Cash paid for interest
(12.2)
Operating cash flows from operating leases
(5.0)
(11.2)
(58.7)
Non-cash operating activities:
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease obligations
14.3
40.5
913.8
Non-cash investing and financing activities:
Acquired property and equipment and intangible assets not yet paid for
0.1
1,057.7
Conversion of convertible debt to ordinary shares
19.2
Effect of deconsolidation of former subsidiaries
85.9
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Priority Share
Ordinary Shares
Accumulated
Non-redeemable
Issued and
Treasury
Additional
Total equity
non-
Outstanding
shares at
Paid-In
Comprehensive
Retained
attributable to
controlling
Amount
cost
Capital
Income/(Loss)
Earnings
Nebius Group N.V.
interests
Equity
Balance as of January 1, 2023
1
361,482,281
(19.6)
2,091.1
(1,210.0)
3,618.1
4,488.8
317.6
4,806.4
109.0
109
Transaction with Uber (Note 3)
(320.2)
(422.7)
(280.0)
(702.7)
Net income
Translation adjustment
(1,055.0)
(59.6)
(67.7)
(70.1)
Balance as of December 31, 2023
1,812.2
(2,367.5)
3,859.4
3,293.7
3,293.9
Priority share elimination
(1)
Net loss
Divestment (Note 3)
(162,485,725)
(2,286.4)
142.2
Sale of treasury shares, net of issuance costs (Note 13)
33,333,334
471.7
195.9
667.6
Transfer of shares to noteholders (Note 12)
3,046,129
43.1
(43.1)
Contingent tax liability in respect of shares remained in treasury (Note 11)
(180.9)
65.7
Repurchase of equity classified awards
(10.2)
Exercises of share-based awards
283,870
(4.0)
93,711
Balance as of December 31, 2024
235,753,600
Deconsolidation of subsidiary (Note 3)
Exercise of share-based awards
4,022,760
62.7
(62.7)
Exercise of share options
209,864
5.1
Conversion of Class B Shares (Note 13)
(0.3)
Cancellation of Treasury shares (Note 13)
(0.5)
623.4
(622.8)
Sale of Treasury shares
12,432,432
193.7
932.5
1,126.2
Transfer of shares to noteholders
491,648
7.6
11.6
81.9
106,667
1.7
(1.7)
Balance as of December 31, 2025
253,016,971
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023, 2024 AND 2025
(in millions of U.S. dollars (“$”), except share and per share data)
1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Description of Business
Nebius Group N.V., the parent company (the “Company”), together with its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, “Nebius Group” or the “Group”), is a technology company building full-stack infrastructure to service the high-growth global AI industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and tools and services for developers. The Group also operates additional businesses, currently including autonomous driving technologies (Avride) and education technology (“edtech”) (TripleTen).
On May 7, 2025, the Company announced a strategic investment transaction in Toloka, the Group’s data-for-generative AI solutions business, led by Bezos Expeditions with participation from Mikhail Parakhin, CTO of Shopify. Following the completion of the investment transaction in Toloka, the Company continued to hold a significant equity stake but ceased to hold majority voting power in Toloka, no longer includes Toloka’s results in the Group’s consolidated financial statements, and reports its stake in Toloka as a combination of equity method investment and investment in non-marketable equity securities (See Note 3 – “Acquisitions, Disposals and Discontinued Operations”; Note 5 – “Investments in Equity Securities and Equity Investments” for further detail).
On February 5, 2024, the Company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with a purchaser consortium to sell (the “Divestment”) all of the Group’s businesses in Russia and related businesses in certain international markets (the “Divested Businesses”). The Divested Businesses accounted for more than 95% of the Group’s consolidated revenues in 2023, and approximately 95% of the Group’s consolidated assets and employees immediately prior to the Divestment. The Divestment was implemented in two closings. The first closing occurred on May 17, 2024, in which the Company sold a controlling stake in the Divested Businesses of 68% to the purchaser for consideration consisting of a combination of the cash equivalent of RUB 237.5 billion less transaction expenses and other applicable adjustments, payable in Chinese Yuan (“CNH”), and 67.6 million of the Company’s Class A shares. The Company received the cash payment in the amount of CNH 17.8 billion or approximately $2.4 billion on May 16, 2024. The Company held a remaining minority interest in the Divested Businesses between the first and the second closings.
The second and final closing of the Divestment occurred on July 12, 2024, at which the Company sold its remaining stake in the Divested Businesses. The consideration at the second closing was paid in a combination of cash of CNH 1.3 billion (approximately $0.2 billion) and 94.9 million Class A shares. The total amount of cash proceeds received in the transaction amounted to $2.6 billion, and the total number of consideration shares received was 162.5 million Class A shares. The Divestment represented the Company’s exit from Russia, a strategic shift that had a significant effect on the Company’s operations and financial results and, as such, the Divested Businesses are reported as discontinued operations. See Note 3 – “Acquisitions, Disposals and Discontinued Operations” for further detail.
Nebius Group N.V. was incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands in June 2004 and is the holding company of a number of subsidiaries globally. The Company changed its name from Yandex N.V. to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024, following the completion of the Divestment.
Basis of Presentation and Going Concern
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Such consolidated financial statements were prepared assuming that the Group will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. The result of operations, assets and liabilities and cash flows of the Divested Businesses are presented as discontinued operations in the Company’s consolidated financial statements for all periods presented.
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Nebius Group N.V. and the entities it controls. All inter-company transactions and balances within the Group have been eliminated upon consolidation.
Noncontrolling interests in consolidated subsidiaries are included in the consolidated balance sheets as a separate component of equity. The Group reports consolidated net income/(loss) inclusive of both the Company’s and the noncontrolling interests’ share, as well as amounts of consolidated net income/(loss) attributable to each of the Company and the noncontrolling interests.
Deconsolidation and Discontinued Operations
The Company uses deconsolidation accounting upon the loss of control of a subsidiary generally determined to be less than 50% owned. Upon deconsolidation, the Company will no longer present the subsidiary’s assets, liabilities, and results of operations in its consolidated financial statements. If the Company owns more than 20% but less than 50% the Company will continue to report under the equity method, in case significant influence over the investee is maintained.
The Company considers the provisions of ASC 205 “Discontinued operations” and analyzes whether the disposed portion of the Company’s operations qualifies as held for sale and presentation of discontinued operations. In the period that a discontinued operation is classified as held for sale and for all prior periods presented, the assets, liabilities and operations of the component are presented separately in the Group’s consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of operations.
Recast of Certain Prior Period Information
Toloka’s investment transaction, which resulted in its deconsolidation from the Group’s consolidated financial statements (the “Toloka Deconsolidation”), represented a strategic shift and met the criteria for the Toloka business to be classified as discontinued operations pursuant to ASC 205 “Discontinued operations.” Prior period financial information presented in these consolidated financial statements has been recast to reflect Toloka as discontinued operations.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and amounts of revenues and expenses for the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The most significant estimates relate to useful lives of property and equipment, recoverability of deferred tax assets, accounting for leases, fair values of share-based awards and valuation of investments in non-marketable equity securities. The Group bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities.
In January 2026, the Company completed an assessment of the useful lives of servers and network equipment based on updated information and usage patterns obtained subsequent to year-end and concluded that the estimated useful lives of such assets should be extended from four to five years. Management is considering the application of this change in accounting estimate prospectively beginning January 1, 2026.
Foreign Currency Translation
The functional currency of Nebius Group N.V. is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the Group’s other businesses, which are incorporated in various countries, is generally the respective local currency. The consolidated financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars. Assets and liabilities of entities with functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date, while income and expenses are translated at average exchange rates for the reporting period. Equity components are translated using appropriate historical exchange rates.
Translation gains and losses are recorded as foreign currency translation adjustments in other comprehensive income/(loss). Foreign exchange transaction gains and losses are included in other income / (loss), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
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Certain Risks and Concentrations
Management has assessed the Group’s current risk exposures and identified concentration of credit risk, as well as customer and supplier concentrations, as the primary areas of potential risk.
Credit Risk Exposure
Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to significant concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and accounts receivable. The Group’s treasury policy addresses the level of credit exposure by working with different geographically diversified banking institutions, subject to their conformity to an established minimum credit rating for banking relationships. The Company extends credit to its customers in the ordinary course of business, which exposes it to credit risk in the event of nonpayment by customers. The Company has not experienced any material losses from these accounts.
Significant Customers
The Group’s businesses operate primarily in the United States, the European Union (“EU”) and Israel. A significant portion of the Group’s revenue is derived from the core AI infrastructure business and to a lesser extent from fees collected from users of TripleTen’s edtech platform. A substantial portion of the Group’s revenue is collected on a prepaid basis.
The following customers accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024, and 2025 after deconsolidation of Toloka entities:
Customer A
27%
25%
Customer B
15%
Customer C
11%
Customer D
* Customer did not represent 10% or more of revenue
As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the Group’s maximum exposure to credit risk related to significant customer concentrations, measured at the gross fair value of accounts receivable was $6.6 (59%) attributable to Customer A in 2024 and $597.0 (83%) attributable to Customer D in 2025, and no significant customer concentration existed as of December 31, 2023.
Supplier Concentration
As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the Group’s maximum exposure to credit risk related to significant supplier concentrations, measured at the gross carrying amount of capital expenditures incurred during that year, was attributable to one supplier in 2024 and to two suppliers in 2025. No significant supplier concentration existed in 2023.
The Group recognizes revenue under contracts with customers in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”), Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers,” or ASC 606. In accordance with ASC 606 revenue is recognized when the control of promised goods or services is transferred to the Group’s customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Group expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The Group allocates the total transaction price to each distinct performance obligation in an arrangement that contains multiple performance obligations based on their stand-alone selling price (“SSP”). The SSP reflects the price the Group would charge for a specific service if it were sold separately in similar circumstances and to similar customers. Revenue is recognized when, or as, the Group satisfies its performance obligations. The Group excludes from the measurement of its revenues any tax collected from customers on behalf of third parties.
The Group’s principal revenue streams and their respective accounting treatments are discussed below:
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Revenues from the Nebius Cloud Platform
The Group operates a cloud platform providing high-performance computing (HPC), managed Kubernetes services, object storage, and scalable GPU-powered solutions, specifically designed to train intensive AI workloads. Revenue from the cloud platform is recognized over time as services are provided, as customers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits of the services. Depending on the contract model, revenue is recognized based on usage (on-demand “pay-as-you-go”) or over the contractual service period (“reserved capacity”).
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) access is provided to customers on a consumption basis and is billed monthly in arrears based on usage of services in the period.
For Reserved Capacity arrangements, the Group recognizes revenue ratably over time as services are provided. Variable consideration — principally in the form of service level credits and other contractual adjustments — is estimated based on the specific facts and circumstances of the committed contracts. We allocate the variable consideration to the month in which we have the contractual right to bill under the contract as this represents the amount of consideration to which we expect to be entitled for the transfer of services during that month.
Advance payments received by the Group from customers for services not yet rendered are recorded as deferred revenue on the Group’s consolidated balance sheets and recognized as revenue in the period when services are provided.
Significant Customer Agreements
During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group entered into two significant customer agreements for cloud computing services. In applying ASC 606, the Group assessed each contract to determine whether it met the definition of a lease and is within the scope of ASC 842, “Leases”, which requires the transfer of control of identified assets and ability of the customer to direct the use of those assets. The Group determined that significant customer arrangements are classified as service contracts under ASC 606 and not as leases under ASC 842.
Each contract has multiple standalone performance obligations in the form of provision of computing capacity in clusters and related services. The performance obligations are delivered ratably over the period of time specified in the contracts, as such revenue is recognized over time as services are provided.
On September 8, 2025, the Group entered into a commercial agreement (the “Microsoft Agreement”) with Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”), pursuant to which the Group provides Microsoft access to dedicated GPU cloud computing capacity in clusters (each, a “Microsoft GPU Service”) at its new data center in Vineland, New Jersey over a five-year term. The Microsoft GPU Services are being deployed in nine tranches during 2025 and 2026. Subject to the satisfaction of deployment and availability of the Microsoft GPU Services, Microsoft has committed to pay the Group fees under the Microsoft Agreement estimated to be up to $17,392.9, irrespective of actual utilization of the GPU capacity, including aggregate upfront payments of approximately $6,958.1, with the remaining consideration invoiced monthly over the service terms of the respective tranches through October 2031. The agreement includes service-level commitments and provides Microsoft with rights to receive service credits or to terminate individual tranches in the event of specified delivery delays or repeated failure to meet availability requirements. Microsoft may also acquire additional services and/or capacity under the Microsoft Agreement. Cash flow coming from the Microsoft Agreement will be utilized to finance part of the capital expenditure associated with the Microsoft Agreement. The Group delivered the first tranche to Microsoft in November 2025 and the second tranche in February 2026.
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On November 1, 2025, the Group entered into a Cloud Infrastructure Services Agreement (the “Meta Agreement”) with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), pursuant to which the Group provides Meta with access to dedicated GPU cloud computing capacity and related cloud infrastructure services over a five-year term delivered in two tranches. The total contracted consideration under the initial order is approximately $2,880.7. In addition, Meta pays recurring monthly fees for storage, compute, and connectivity services for the duration of the service term. Meta is obligated to pay the contracted service fees irrespective of actual utilization of the GPU capacity. The agreement includes service-level commitments and provides Meta with rights to receive service credits or to terminate individual tranches in the event of specified delivery delays or repeated failure to meet availability requirements. The Group delivered the first tranche to Meta in December 2025 and the second tranche in February 2026.
Revenues from TripleTen Educational Technology Services
The Group provides educational services to individual customers (students) through boot camps and project-based learning opportunities by providing online educational products. These services allow students to graduate with professional certificates and portfolios to proceed with building a career in tech. For TripleTen, the performance obligations include providing students with access to educational content, such as lessons, materials, and resources. The fees for educational courses are allocated to the performance obligation of providing the course to the student, which is typically the fixed price at inception of the course. Revenue is recognized proportionally over the duration of the course provided to a student, including course extensions. Advance payments received by the Group from customers for services not yet rendered are recorded as deferred revenue in the Group’s consolidated balance sheets and recognized as revenue in the period services are provided.
Contract Balances and Remaining Performance Obligations
The timing of revenue recognition, billings and cash collections result in accounts receivable and deferred revenue.
Accounts receivable represent the Group’s unconditional right to consideration for goods or services transferred to customers, where only the passage of time is required before payment is due, and are recorded at the invoiced amount, net of an allowance for credit losses. Accounts receivable are recognized in the period in which the Group has the right to invoice the customer and when its right to consideration is unconditional. Deferred revenue arises when the Group receives payments or has the unconditional right to receive payments in advance of satisfying the related performance obligations. Deferred revenue primarily consists of billings or payments received in advance of revenue recognition.
The Group assesses the timing of the transfer of goods or services to the customer as compared to the timing of payments to determine whether a significant financing component exists. As a practical expedient, the Group does not assess the existence of a significant financing component when the difference between payment and transfer of deliverables is a year or less. If the difference in timing arises for reasons other than the provision of finance either to the customer or to the Group, no financing component is deemed to exist. If a significant financing component exists from a payment from the customer to the Group in advance of the satisfaction of the performance obligation, the interest on the borrowing cost component is recorded as interest expense and revenue, based on an appropriate implicit borrowing rate.
Remaining performance obligations ("RPO") represent the transaction price allocated to performance obligations that are unsatisfied or partially unsatisfied as of the end of the reporting period. RPO consists of deferred revenue and unbilled contract revenue, which includes non-cancelable contracts where the Group has not yet invoiced, maintains an obligation to perform, and has not recognized revenue in the financial statements.
Cost of revenues primarily consists of costs of co-location of data center facilities, the electricity, utility and maintenance costs in data centers, personnel costs, payment processing and students’ tuition fees and other related expenses. The Group’s owned data centers together with leased data center facilities are significant components of the Group’s cost of revenues.
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Product development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs incurred for the development of, enhancement to and maintenance of the Group’s technology platforms. Product development expenses also include rent and utilities attributable to office spaces occupied by development staff.
The Group’s development expenditures, including costs to develop software products, are expensed before technological feasibility is reached. Technological feasibility is typically reached shortly before the release of such products and, as a result, development costs that meet the criteria for capitalization were not material for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Product development expenses related to relatively minor upgrades, enhancements and maintenance are expensed as incurred.
Social Security Contributions
The Group makes contributions to governmental pension, medical and social funds on behalf of its employees. These contributions are expensed as incurred. These contributions are subject to changes in national laws and regulations, which the Group monitors for compliance. In the Netherlands the amount is calculated based on rates from 17.71% to 22.71%. The rates for 2025 for other countries range from 10.21% to 33.80%; income thresholds are usually applied.
The Group does not have defined contribution plans or other pension plans.
Share-Based Compensation
The Company grants equity awards to the Group’s employees, directors and consultants in respect of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, including restricted share units (“RSUs”) and performance share units (“PSUs”); as well as equity awards in respect of individual business units or subsidiaries (“Business Unit Equity Awards”) (collectively, “Share-Based Awards”).
The fair value of RSUs is measured based on the fair market values of the underlying shares on the dates of grant. The fair value of PSUs is measured using the Monte-Carlo pricing model. The Group estimates the fair value at the grant date of Business Unit Equity Awards that are expected to vest using the Black-Scholes-Merton (“BSM”) pricing model or the Monte-Carlo pricing model. Compensation expense is recognized over the requisite service period, generally on a straight-line basis; however, for certain awards with market conditions and graded vesting features, compensation expense is recognized using the graded-vesting attribution method. These models incorporate assumptions such as stock price volatility, contractual terms, maturity, risk free rates and expected dividends. The expense per RSU and Business Unit Equity Award is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period.
The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of Share-Based Awards represent the Group’s best estimates, but these estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management judgment. As a result, if factors change or the Group uses different assumptions, the Group’s share-based compensation expense could be materially different in the future. The Group accounts for forfeitures as they occur.
Cancellation of an award accompanied by the concurrent grant of a replacement award is accounted for as a modification of the terms of the cancelled award (“modification awards”). The compensation costs associated with modification awards are recognized if either the original vesting condition or the new vesting condition has been achieved. Such compensation costs cannot be less than the grant-date fair value of the original award. The incremental compensation cost is measured as the excess of the fair value of the replacement award over the fair value of the cancelled award at the cancellation date. Therefore, in relation to the modification awards, the Group recognizes share-based compensation over the vesting periods of the new awards, which comprises (1) the amortization of the incremental portion of share-based compensation over the remaining vesting term and (2) any unrecognized compensation cost of the original award, using either the original term or the new term, whichever is higher for each reporting period.
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Income Taxes
Current provision for income tax is calculated as the estimated amount expected to be recovered from or paid to the taxing authorities based on the taxable income for the period. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and for carryforwards. Deferred tax assets, including those for operating loss carryforwards, and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which the deferred tax asset or liability is expected to be recovered or settled. Deferred tax income/(expense) represents the change during the period in the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. In making such a determination, management considers all available evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, limitations and enacted changes to the tax legislation in respective jurisdictions, tax-planning strategies, and results of recent operations.
The Group accounts for uncertainty in tax positions recognized in the consolidated financial statements by recognizing a tax benefit from a tax position when it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including resolutions of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits. For those tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold, the Group recognizes tax benefit measured as the largest amount with a realization possibility exceeding 50 percent. Income tax positions must meet a more-likely-than-not recognition threshold at the effective date to be recognized.
Comprehensive Income/(Loss)
Comprehensive income/(loss) is defined as the change in equity during a period from non-owner sources. U.S. GAAP requires the reporting of comprehensive income/(loss) in addition to net income/(loss). Comprehensive income/(loss) of the Group includes net income/(loss) and foreign currency translation adjustments. For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 total comprehensive income/(loss) included, in addition to net income/(loss), the effect of translating the financial statements of the Group’s legal entities from these entities’ functional currencies into U.S. dollars.
Accumulated other comprehensive loss of $22.1 and $0.1 as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively, consists solely of cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment.
In 2024, as a result of the Divestment and the change in reporting currency, the Group reclassified the accumulated other comprehensive loss totaling $2,428.6 from equity to earnings. In 2025, as a result of Toloka deconsolidation, the Group reclassified the accumulated other comprehensive loss totaling $0.8 from equity to earnings.
Noncontrolling Interests
Interests held by third parties in consolidated majority-owned subsidiaries are presented as noncontrolling interests, which represent the noncontrolling stockholders’ interests in the underlying net assets of the Group’s consolidated majority-owned subsidiaries. Noncontrolling interests that are not redeemable are reported in the equity section of the consolidated balance sheets. The net income/(loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests reflects the share of the net income/(loss) of the Group’s consolidated subsidiaries, in which there are noncontrolling interests.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash includes cash on hand, bank current accounts and funds in transit. Cash equivalents include short-term investments (with an original maturity of no more than 90 days from the date of investment) that are easily convertible
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into known amounts of cash and are subject to insignificant risk of changes in value (such as deposit accounts and money market investments).
Restricted Cash
Restricted cash includes cash and cash equivalents that the company does not have full rights to use or dispose of. Restricted cash includes, for example, cash held in separate bank accounts reserved for specific purposes (such as guaranteeing payments to suppliers and contractors, repaying loans, etc.).
In the balance sheet, restricted cash is included in Other Current Assets or Other Non-current Assets, depending on when the restrictions on the use of the cash or its equivalents will be lifted.
Term Deposits
Bank deposits are classified as cash and cash equivalents if the original maturities are three months or less. Bank deposits, that have original maturities of longer than three months, are classified as (i) current term deposits if they are repayable in less than twelve months; and (ii) non-current term deposits if they are repayable in more than twelve months.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The Group maintains an allowance for credit losses for expected uncollectible accounts receivable, which is recorded as an offset to the respective receivable, and changes in such amounts are classified as sales, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations. The Group determined that the expected loss rates should be calculated using the historical loss rates adjusted for current market conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions such as changes in inflation rates to inform adjustments to historical loss data. The historical rates are calculated for each of the aging categories used for pooling receivables. To determine the collected portion of each bucket, the collection time of each receivable is identified. To determine the appropriate allowance for expected credit losses, the Group considers certain historical information and credit quality indicators, such as aging, collection history, and creditworthiness of debtors. The Group assesses collectability by reviewing accounts receivable on a collective basis where similar characteristics exist and on an individual basis when the Group identifies specific customers with known disputes or collectability issues.
Government grants
The Group accounts for government grants in accordance with ASC 105-10-05-2 by applying by analogy IAS 20 Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance. Government grants represent assistance by government in the form of transfers of resources to the Group in return for past or future compliance with certain conditions relating to the operating activities of the Group. Government grants are recognized when there is reasonable assurance that: (a) the Group will comply with the conditions attaching to them; and (b) the grant will be received. Government grants are classified either as grants related to assets or grants related to income based on the nature of the underlying expenditures. Government grants relating to multiple activities are separated into components and accounted for based on the nature of the related costs or obligations. A government grant is measured at the amount of cash received or receivable.
Government grants related to assets are presented separately as deferred income (as Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities) that is amortized over the useful life of the asset (gross presentation). Government grants related to income are offset against the related expenses and recognized over the periods in which the related costs are incurred. Cash receipts from government grants are classified by the Group as cash flows provided by operating activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. Government grants are derecognized as the related deferred income is fully recognized in profit or loss over the applicable period or when the grant becomes repayable.
Repayments of grants related to income are applied first against any unamortized deferred income recognized in respect of the grant. To the extent that the repayment exceeds the deferred income balance, or where no deferred income exists, the excess is recognized immediately in profit or loss. Repayments of grants related to assets are recognized by either increasing the carrying amount of the related asset or reducing the deferred income balance by the amount
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repayable. Any cumulative additional depreciation that would have been recognized in profit or loss to date in the absence of the grant is recognized immediately in profit or loss.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over their useful lives. Capital expenditures incurred before property and equipment are ready for their intended use are capitalized as assets not yet in use.
The depreciable amount of property and equipment is its cost less its residual (salvage) value (if applicable). Depreciation is computed under the straight-line method using estimated useful lives as follows:
Estimated useful lives
Server and network equipment
4.0 years
Infrastructure systems and equipment
3.0-10.0 years
Office furniture and equipment
3.0 years
Buildings
20.0 years
Other property and equipment
2.0-10.0 years
Land is not depreciated.
Depreciation of assets included in assets not yet in use commences when they are ready for the intended use. Assets not yet in use include prepayments made for property, plant and equipment.
Capitalized Interest Costs
In accordance with ASC 835-20, the Group capitalizes interest associated with the construction of data centers and purchases of related server and network equipment during the period in which expenditures for qualifying assets have been incurred, activities necessary to prepare the assets for their intended use are in progress, and interest costs are being incurred. Such capitalized interest is considered part of the assets’ historical cost and is depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the underlying assets.
Leases
The Company leases co-location space at data center facilities and, to a lesser extent, corporate offices, all of which are operating leases.
The Group determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at inception by assessing whether the arrangement contains an identified asset and whether it has the right to control the identified asset. Right-of-use (“ROU”) assets represent the Group’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Group’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of future lease payments over the lease term. ROU assets are based on the measurement of the lease liability and also include any lease payments made prior to or on lease commencement and exclude lease incentives and initial direct costs incurred, as applicable.
To determine the present value of its lease payments, the Group utilizes the implicit interest rate in the lease agreement. If the implicit interest rate in the Group’s leases is unknown, the Group uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of future lease payments. The Group gives consideration to its credit risk, term of the lease and total lease payments and adjusts for the impacts of collateral, as necessary, when calculating its incremental borrowing rates. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Group will exercise any such options. Lease costs for the Group’s operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis within operating expenses over the lease term.
The Group determines lease payments related to the use of the underlying leased assets at lease commencement and lease modification dates. Based on the terms of the individual lease agreement, such lease payments may represent
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fixed payments (including in-substance fixed payments) or variable lease payments. Certain future minimum lease payments due under the operating lease agreements contain rent-free periods or escalating rent payment provisions.
The Group separates its leases into leases of office spaces and data center facilities by the class of the underlying assets. For both classes the Group separately accounts for lease and non-lease components based on the identifiable standalone price of such non-lease components and, as a result, allocates part of lease contract consideration to the non-lease component and accounts for it separately. Non-lease components primarily consist of power consumption and internet connection and can be both fixed and/or usage based. The Group has also elected to not apply the recognition requirement to any leases within its existing classes of assets with a term of 12 months or less.
A change to the terms and conditions of a contract that results in a change in the scope of or the consideration for a lease is assessed by the Group to determine whether the modified contract contains a lease. If the modification results in a separate contract, the Group continues to account for the unmodified original contract and a separate new contract arising from the modification. If the modification is not a separate contract, the Group remeasures the corresponding ROU asset and lease liability, adjusted for the circumstances of the particular contract and its modification. In the event of a full or a partial termination, any difference between the changes in lease liability and ROU asset is recognized in profit or loss at the effective date of the modification.
Equity Method Investments
Investments in the common stock or in-substance common stock of entities in which the Group can exercise significant influence but does not own a majority equity interest or otherwise control are accounted for under the equity method. The Group records its share of the results of these companies and the amortization of basis differences within the income/(loss) from equity method investments line on the consolidated statements of operations or as an adjustment to equity to reflect the Group’s share in the changes of the investee’s capital.
Following the loss of significant influence over equity method investments without readily determinable fair values, the Group accounts for these investments under the measurement alternative at cost less impairment.
The Group reviews its equity method investments for other-than-temporary impairment whenever events or changes in business circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the investment may not be fully recoverable. Investments identified as having an indication of impairment are subject to further analysis to determine if the impairment is other-than-temporary and this analysis requires estimating the fair value of the investment. The determination of fair value of the investment involves considering factors such as current economic and market conditions, the operating performance of the investment company including current earnings trends and forecasted cash flows, and other company and industry specific information. Once a decline in fair value is determined to be other-than-temporary, an impairment charge is recorded to other income/(loss), net in the consolidated statements of operations and a new cost basis in the investment is established.
Investment in Non-Marketable Equity Securities
The Group accounts for investments in non-marketable equity securities in accordance with ASC 321. Equity securities without readily determinable fair values are measured at cost, less impairment, adjusted for observable price changes in orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer. Adjustments for observable price changes and impairments are recognized in earnings.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of purchase consideration over the Group’s share of fair value of the net assets of acquired businesses. During the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Group may apply adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with a corresponding offset to goodwill. Goodwill is not subject to amortization but is tested for impairment at least annually.
The Group performs a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing on goodwill is necessary. If the Group believes, as a result of its qualitative assessment, that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value
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of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, a quantitative impairment test is required. Otherwise, no further testing is required. The quantitative impairment test is performed by comparing the carrying value of each reporting unit’s net assets (including allocated goodwill) to the fair value of those net assets. If the reporting unit’s carrying amount is greater than its fair value, the Group recognizes a goodwill impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value.
The Group recognized goodwill impairment in the amount of $13.7, nil and nil for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively. All of the Group’s historical goodwill and acquisition-related intangible assets were directly attributable to the Divested Businesses. Goodwill impairment and acquisition-related intangible assets amortization are presented within results of discontinued operations in the Group’s consolidated statement of operations.
Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
Other intangible assets include technologies and licenses and Assets not yet in use. Intangible assets are initially recognized at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less accumulated amortization and impairment losses.
The Group amortizes other intangible assets using the straight-line method using estimated useful lives as follows:
Other technologies and licenses
the shorter of 5.0 years or the underlying license terms
Impairment of Long-lived Assets Other Than Goodwill
The Group evaluates the carrying value of long-lived assets other than goodwill for impairment whenever events or changes in business circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts of the assets may not be recoverable. When such a determination is made, management’s estimate of undiscounted cash flows to be generated by the assets is compared to the carrying value of the assets to determine whether impairment is indicated. If impairment is indicated, the amount of the impairment recognized in the consolidated financial statements is determined by estimating the fair value of the assets and recording a loss for the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the estimated fair value. This fair value is usually determined based on estimated discounted cash flows.
Convertible debt
Upon the issuance of convertible debt, the Group performs an analysis of the embedded features pursuant to ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging”. In cases where embedded features require bifurcation, they are accounted for separately as a derivative liability. The Group does not apply a fair value option for a debt component of convertible notes issued.
The Group records the principal amount of convertible notes issued as a liability on its balance sheet, offset by the associated debt issuance costs, which are reported as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the liability. Debt issuance costs are amortized over the contractual term of the convertible notes issued using the effective interest method, with the amortization recognized as interest expense in the consolidated statement of operations. Additionally, accretion of principal to the repayment amount at maturity is recognized over the term of the convertible notes issued as interest expense.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
ASU 2023-09 "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures"
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09 “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”, which improves the transparency of income tax disclosures by requiring (1) consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the effective tax rate reconciliation and (2) income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. It also includes certain other amendments to improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Group
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adopted this standard effective January 1, 2025, and applied the guidance prospectively. Refer to the Note 10 Income Tax.
ASU 2025-05 "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets"
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05 “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets”, which introduces a practical expedient for estimating expected credit losses on current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606, including those recognized in a business combination. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2025, including interim periods within those annual periods, with early adoption permitted. The Group adopted ASU 2025-05 early, effective January 1, 2025, and applied the guidance prospectively. In accordance with ASU 2025-05, the Group elected to apply the practical expedient provided in ASC 326-20-30-10C for current trade receivables arising from revenue transactions accounted for under ASC 606. Under this practical expedient, the Group assumes that current conditions as of the balance sheet date remain unchanged for the remaining life of the receivables when developing reasonable and supportable forecast.
Effect of Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Effective
ASU "2024-03, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses"
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU “2024-03, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses”, which requires more detailed disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, about specified categories of expenses (including employee compensation, depreciation, and amortization) included in certain expense captions presented on the consolidated statements of operations. This guidance, as further clarified through ASU 2025-01 “Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)”, is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Therefore, for the Group, the guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2027, and for interim periods beginning January 1, 2028. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance can be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Group is currently evaluating the impact this amended guidance may have on its consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2025-06 "Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software”
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06 “Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software”, which clarifies and simplifies the capitalization guidance for internal-use software by removing references to sequential development stages and clarifying that capitalization begins when management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and it is probable the project will be completed and the software will be used as intended, considering any significant uncertainty in development activities. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027, including interim periods within those annual periods. Therefore, for the Group, the guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2028. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance may be applied prospectively, retrospectively, or on a modified retrospective basis, including for in-process projects. The Group is currently evaluating the impact this amended guidance may have on its consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2025-11 "Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements"
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-11 “Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements”, which clarifies interim disclosure requirements and the applicability of Topic 270. The guidance will be effective for interim periods beginning January 1, 2028. Therefore, for the Group, the guidance will be effective for interim reporting periods beginning January 1, 2028, and will be reflected in the consolidated financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2028. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance can be applied prospectively
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or retrospectively. The Group is currently evaluating the impact this amended guidance may have on its consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2025-10 "Accounting for Government Grants (Topic 832): Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities”
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-10 “Accounting for Government Grants (Topic 832): Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities” to establish authoritative guidance on the recognition, measurement, and presentation of government grants received by business entities. The guidance will be effective for annual periods beginning with the year ending December 31, 2028 and for interim periods beginning January 1, 2029. Therefore, for the Group, the guidance will be effective for the year ending December 31, 2028, and for interim periods beginning January 1, 2029. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance can be applied using a modified prospective, modified retrospective, or under a retrospective approach. The Group is currently evaluating the impact this amended guidance may have on its consolidated financial statements.
No other recent accounting pronouncements were issued by FASB or the SEC that are believed by management to have a material impact on the Group’s present or future consolidated financial statements.
2. NET INCOME/(LOSS) PER SHARE
Basic net income/(loss) per Class A and Class B ordinary share from continuing and discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 is computed on the basis of the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding using the two-class method. Basic net income/(loss) from continuing and discontinued operations and per share is computed using the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period and including vested restricted share units and shares to be delivered as part of the restructuring of the Company’s convertible notes in June 2022. Diluted net income/(loss) per ordinary share from continuing and discontinued operations is computed using the dilutive effect of Share-Based Awards calculated using the “treasury stock” method and the dilutive effect of convertible debt under the if-converted method. Transactions resulting in businesses being classified as discontinued operations are described in Note 3.
The computation of the diluted net income/(loss) per Class A share from continuing and discontinued operations assumes the conversion of Class B shares, while the diluted net income/(loss) per Class B share from continuing and discontinued operations does not assume the conversion of those shares. The net income/(loss) per share from continuing and discontinued operations amounts are the same for Class A and Class B shares because the holders of each class are legally entitled to equal per share distributions whether through dividends or liquidation. In compliance with ASC 260-10-45-18 the Group uses loss from continuing operations as the control number in determining whether those potential ordinary shares are dilutive or antidilutive. The number of Share-Based Awards excluded from the diluted net income/(loss) per ordinary share from continuing and discontinued operations computation, because their effect was anti-dilutive for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, was 6,005,247, 4,026,852 and 6,023,549 respectively.
The outstanding Convertible Notes (see Note 12) contain a flexible settlement feature and are evaluated for inclusion in diluted earnings per share under the if-converted method in accordance with ASC 260. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Convertible Notes were excluded from the computation of diluted net income per ordinary share from continuing and discontinued operations because their effect was anti-dilutive. The number of ordinary shares issuable upon conversion that were excluded from diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2025 was 17,864,122. There were no Convertible Notes outstanding during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024.
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The components of basic and diluted net (loss)/income per share from continuing and discontinued operations were as follows:
Net income / (loss) from continuing operations, allocated for basic
(270.2)
(28.8)
(307.3)
(44.7)
Reallocation of net income / (loss) from continuing operations as a result of conversion of Class B to Class A shares
Net income / (loss) from continuing operations, allocated for diluted
Net income / (loss) from discontinued operations, allocated for basic
488.3
52.0
(252.6)
(36.8)
62.2
10.5
Reallocation of net (loss)/income from discontinued operations as a result of conversion of Class B to Class A shares
Reallocation of net income / (loss) from discontinued operations to Class B shares
Net income / (loss) from discontinued operations, allocated for diluted
540.3
10.3
Weighted average ordinary shares used in per share computation — basic
335,141,012
35,698,674
245,306,552
207,486,402
35,044,888
Effect of:
Share-Based Awards
5,148,655
Conversion of Class B to Class A shares
Weighted average ordinary shares used in per share computation — diluted
Net income / (loss) per share from continuing operations attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Net income / (loss) per share from discontinued operations attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Net income / (loss) per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSALS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
The components of net income/(loss) from discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 are the following:
Gain from disposal – Toloka
Net loss from discontinued operations – Toloka
(42.5)
(41.5)
(13.2)
Net income from discontinued operations – businesses in Russia
607.4
477.7
Loss from disposal – businesses in Russia
(784.6)
Gain from revaluation of investment in the divested businesses
Total net income / (loss) from discontinued operations
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Disposal of businesses in Russia and certain international markets in 2024
As disclosed in Note 1, in 2024 the Company sold all of the Group’s businesses in Russia and related businesses in certain international markets. The transaction was implemented in two closings. The first closing occurred on May 17, 2024, at which the Company sold a controlling stake of 68% in the Divested Businesses; the second closing occurred on July 12, 2024, at which the Company sold the remaining stake. The Divestment represented a strategic shift in the Company’s operations, and as such the Divested Businesses are reported as discontinued operations as defined by ASC 205-20-45.
In accordance with ASC 810-10-40, “Consolidation — Overall – Derecognition - Deconsolidation of a Subsidiary or Derecognition of a Group of Assets,” a parent company must deconsolidate a subsidiary as of the date the parent ceases to have a controlling interest in that subsidiary and recognize a gain or loss in net income at that time. The Company deconsolidated the disposal group from its consolidated financial statements on May 17, 2024, after the first closing when the Company lost a controlling interest in the Divested Businesses and recognized a loss on the disposal of discontinued operations totaling $784.6. Loss from disposal represents both the impairment of the held-for-sale component in the amount of $501.7, the result of the deconsolidation in the amount of $270.4 as of the date of the first closing of the Divestment and transaction costs to sell the divested component in the amount of $12.5.
In connection with the deconsolidation, the Company reclassified the accumulated other comprehensive loss from equity to earnings as a result of the change in reporting currency and attributable to the Divested Businesses. Prior to and in anticipation of the first closing, the Company effected the sale of approximately 14.1 million shares (or 4% of the outstanding shares) of IPJC Yandex to another subsidiary within the disposal perimeter for use in the equity incentive pool of the disposal perimeter, in consideration for approximately $208.0 in cash. The transaction did not result in a change of economic ownership of disposed business prior to the Divestment.
The following table provides details of the consideration received for the Divestment:
Fair value of Class A shares received
Cash part of consideration
1st closing
931.1
2,458.1
3,389.2
2nd closing
1,355.3
1,539.5
2,286.4
2,642.3
4,928.7
Following the first closing of the Divestment, the Company held a remaining minority interest in the divested businesses. This investment was subject to revaluation due to RUB / USD exchange rate fluctuations. The result of revaluation of the investment in these divested businesses in the amount of $59.0 gain was presented within net income/(loss) from discontinued operations in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024.
As of May 17, 2024 the Group deconsolidated $1,174.9 of cash and cash equivalents related to discontinued operations.
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The Company reclassified the following operations to discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2024, respectively.
9,344.8
3,848.5
4,193.7
1,588.8
1,099.5
433.6
2,878.1
1,143.4
440.5
89.3
Goodwill impairment
84.3
8,696.1
3,256.7
Income / (loss) from discontinued operations
648.7
591.8
33.70
(122.6)
(80.60)
(6.4)
264.1
13.2
Income / (loss) from discontinued operations before income tax expense
846.5
557.6
Income tax expense
239.1
79.9
Net income from discontinued operations, net of tax
Results of discontinued operations for the year ended December 31, 2024 were consolidated until the date of the first closing of the Divestment, at which the Company sold a controlling stake in the divested businesses. After the Divestment, the Company does not have any continuing involvement in the divested businesses.
Following the first closing of the Divestment, the Company held a remaining interest of approximately 28% in the Divested Businesses. This investment was subject to revaluation due to RUB / USD exchange rate fluctuations. Result of revaluation of the investment in these businesses in the amount of $59.0 was presented within Net income/(loss) from discontinued operations in the consolidated statement of operations.
Substantially all of the Group’s consolidated debt before the Divestment was assumed by the buyer. As a consequence, interest expense incurred in all periods presented was allocated to the results of discontinued operations.
Toloka Deconsolidation and Investment Transaction
Effective May 2, 2025, the Company ceased to have control over Toloka following the issuance by Toloka Group, Inc. ("Toloka Group") of additional stock to third-party investors and a restructuring of the capital stock of Toloka Group into both voting and nonvoting common and preferred shares, as result of which the Company’s voting interest was reduced to 49%. Consequently, Toloka Group was deconsolidated from the Company’s financial statements, and the Company's retained share in Toloka was reclassified as an equity method investment under ASC 323 for the investment in common stock, while the investment in preferred stock was accounted for under ASC 321 using the measurement alternative. The Toloka Deconsolidation represents a strategic transaction aimed at enhancing the Group’s focus on its core AI infrastructure business while allowing Toloka to operate independently. The transaction qualifies as a "strategic shift" under ASC 205-20, requiring discontinued operations reporting, as Toloka constituted a significant business line for the Company.
The deconsolidation was accounted for in accordance with ASC 810, and the Company recognized a gain as the difference between the fair value of the retained investment (common and preferred stock) and the carrying amount of the assets and liabilities deconsolidated. The Company’s participation in the Toloka investment transaction amounts to $39.0 paid in cash. The Company deconsolidated cash and cash equivalents of Toloka in amount of $3.7 as of the date of the Toloka Deconsolidation.
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The Company reclassified the following assets and liabilities to discontinued operations for the year ended December 31, 2024 in connection with the Toloka Deconsolidation:
December 31, 2024
14.9
Accounts receivable, net
Total current assets from discontinued operations
Total non-current assets from discontinued operations
TOTAL ASSETS FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
22.1
7.5
Total current liabilities from discontinued operations
TOTAL LIABILITIES FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
The Company reclassified the following operations to discontinued operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively.
26.1
12.3
29.7
25.2
15.5
22.3
7.4
53.0
67.1
19.3
Loss from discontinued operations
(41.9)
(41.0)
(12.9)
Loss from discontinued operations before income tax expense
(42.4)
(40.9)
(13.4)
Net loss from discontinued operations, net of tax
After the Toloka Deconsolidation, the Company has significant influence over operations of Toloka through a combination of common and preferred shares and intends to hold its non-controlling equity investment in Toloka for the long term.
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Acquisitions in 2023
Acquisition of Uber’s remaining interest in MLU B.V.
On April 21, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with Uber NL Holdings 1 B.V. (“Uber”), a subsidiary of Uber Technologies Inc., and on the same day acquired Uber’s entire remaining 29% interest in MLU B.V., a mobility joint venture, for consideration in cash of $702.5.
In order to account for the equity ownership changes contemplated by the transaction, the Group reduced the amount of the non-controlling interest and additional paid-in capital by $280.0 and $320.2, respectively, and increased the amount of the accumulated other comprehensive loss by $102.5 (Note 4). After the closing date, no earnings are allocated to the non-controlling interest.
The transaction is related to the Divested Businesses.
4. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DETAILS
Cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Cash
633.2
1,152.7
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds
500.4
1,770.9
Bank deposits
1,301.0
754.5
Other cash equivalents
Total cash and cash equivalents
Current expected credit losses for cash and cash equivalents were immaterial for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025. All of the Group’s cash is held at financial institutions that management believes to be of high credit quality.
Aging Analysis of Accounts Receivable
The aging of accounts receivable is presented below. Receivables are considered past due when they remain outstanding beyond their contractual payment terms.
Current
694.7
1-30 days
11.9
31-60 days
61-90 days
1.2
5.0
More than 90 days
Total Account receivable, gross
11.3
724.3
Allowance for current expected credit losses on trade receivables
Total Account receivables, net
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Movements in the allowance for current expected credit losses on trade receivables for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025 were as follows:
Balance at beginning of period
Current period provision for expected credit losses
1.0
3.9
Write-off
Balance at the end of the period
Other Current Assets
Other current assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Term deposits, current
75.0
Prepaid other taxes
1.8
30.0
Security and guarantee deposits for next 12 months
8.8
Deferred expenses
2.1
Restricted cash
Prepaid income tax
Funds receivable
Interest receivable
21.6
12.4
Total other current assets
Other Non-current Assets
Other non-current assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Prepaid rent
271.3
Prepaid other services
41.7
36.7
Security and guarantee deposits over next 12 months
16.4
Loans receivable other
Deferred consideration receivable
3.8
Total other non-current assets
Accounts Payable, Accrued and Other Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Trade accounts payable for property and equipment
Operating lease liabilities, current
13.1
84.9
Trade accounts payable for other services
17.3
Government grant liability, current
17.5
Salary and other compensation to employees payable
14.2
Unused vacation reserve accrued
4.8
Tax liabilities accrued
181.9
Other liabilities
3.2
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Other accrued liabilities as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Avride SAFE liability and Tranche Right liability
102.7
Government grant liability, non-current
23.1
Trade accounts payable for property and equipment, non-current
15.3
Other non-current liabilities
Total other accrued liabilities
In October 2025, Avride issued a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (“SAFE”) to SMB Holding Corporation (“SMB”) in exchange for cash consideration of $100.0. In connection with this arrangement, Avride also granted SMB a contingent right to receive an additional SAFE with a principal amount of $75 million upon achievement of specified operational and financing milestones (the “Tranche Right”). A SAFE is a freestanding financial instrument that provides the holder with the right to receive a variable number of Avride’s equity shares upon certain future events. Under the terms of the SAFE, upon a qualifying equity financing the SAFE automatically converts into preferred stock at a price equal to 80% of the price per share paid by new investors. Upon a liquidity or dissolution event, the holder is entitled to receive the greater of the original purchase amount or the amount otherwise payable upon conversion. The Tranche Right represents a conditional obligation to issue an additional SAFE for a fixed purchase amount if the specified milestones are achieved. Both the SAFE and the Tranche Right are classified as liabilities in accordance with ASC 480, “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity”, as they may require settlement through the issuance of a variable number of shares for a predominantly fixed monetary amount or, in certain circumstances, through the transfer of assets.
The SAFE liability and the Tranche Right liability are initially recorded at fair value in an amount equal to proceeds received and subsequently remeasured to fair value at each reporting date, with changes in fair value recognized in other income / (loss), net (Note 6). As of December 31, 2025, the fair value of the SAFE and the Tranche Right liability was $101.1 and $1.6, respectively.
Government grant
In 2025, the Group received formal approval from the Israeli Innovation Authority for a government grant to support the establishment and operation of an AI large-model training laboratory in Israel for the amount of $54.1. Under the program, the Group is required to deploy and operate advanced AI computing infrastructure and provide eligible Israeli industry and research institutions with multi-year access to those services.
The grant provided in 2025 covers eligible costs incurred from May 2025 through April 2026. In addition, the Group is eligible to maintain its participation and is required to continue meeting the program’s operational and service requirements for a three-year period through April 2028.
The grant is provided in the form of cash reimbursements for eligible expenditures. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group received cash installments totaling $44.4.
The Group has determined that the grant contains both asset-related and income-related components and accounts for each portion separately based on the nature of the underlying expenditures.
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As of December 31, 2025, government grants related to assets are presented as follows:
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities (current portion)
Other accrued liabilities (non-current portion)
Consolidated Statement of Operations
Operating costs and expenses (contra-expense):
(2.9)
For the year ended December 31, 2025, government grants related to income were offset against the following related expenses:
The grant may be required to be repaid if the Group fails to comply with applicable conditions. The Group believes that this is unlikely to occur, as it is in compliance with all applicable requirements.
Deferred Revenue
The Group recognizes deferred revenue when cash is received and before performance obligations are fulfilled, including amounts that may be refundable. Deferred revenue balances primarily relate to strategic customer agreements.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the balance of deferred revenue, including current and non-current portion, was $16.3 and $1,577.5, respectively. Revenue recognized during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, which was included in the deferred revenue balances at the beginning of each respective period, was $6.9 and $16.3, respectively.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, total deferred revenue increased by $1,561.2 primarily due to the recognition of prepayments received in advance for future services to be rendered under strategic customer agreements (Note 1). Deferred revenue is expected to be recognized as revenue over the period ranging from one to five calendar years.
Remaining performance obligations
As of December 31, 2025, the aggregate transaction price allocated to the RPO was $21,333.0, of which 28% is expected to be recognized over the 24 months ending December 31, 2027, 39% between months 25 and 48, and the remainder recognized thereafter. The amounts disclosed include the Group's best estimate of variable consideration which is subject to change due to the timing and performance constraints. The amounts do not include performance obligations with an original duration of one year and less.
The Group recognized interest income for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the amounts of $3.3, $63.6 and $31.8, respectively. Interest income is earned from the Group’s cash and cash equivalents, represented by current accounts and other high liquid financial instruments such as bank deposits with maturities of less than three months and overnight deposits.
The accrued interest receivable in the amount of $21.6 and $0.4 as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively is presented within other current assets in the consolidated balance sheets.
The Group recognized interest expense of $61.5 for the year ended December 31, 2025. No interest expense was recognized for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024.
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Interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2025 primarily relates to interest and amortization of debt issuance costs and accretion associated with the Group’s convertible notes, interest expense recognized on advances received from major customers, and interest expense recognized in connection with property and equipment received in advance from suppliers under deferred payment arrangements. Interest expense is presented net of capitalized interest.
Other Income / (Loss), Net
The following table presents the components of other income / (loss), net in absolute terms for the periods presented:
The income and non-income taxes payable line in the consolidated balance sheets includes income taxes payable in the amount of $0.7 and $4.8 as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively.
Reallocations of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
For the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2025 the Group reclassified other comprehensive income/(loss) in the amount of ($2,428.6) and $0.8, respectively, from equity to earnings upon deconsolidation of the Divested Businesses (Note 3). Such other comprehensive income/(loss) consisted solely of currency translation adjustment directly attributable to the Divested Businesses.
The Group adjusted the carrying amount of accumulated other comprehensive loss by $102.5 for the year ended December 31, 2023, reflecting the acquisition of Uber's remaining interest in MLU B.V. (Note 3).
5. INVESTMENTS IN EQUITY SECURITIES AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS
The table below summarizes the movements in the carrying amount of the Group’s equity method investments for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Balance at the beginning of the year
Investment in Toloka
33.6
Share of profit / (loss) in equity method investments
(2.3)
(28.6)
Share of other comprehensive loss in equity method investments
Impairment loss
Total equity method investments
As of December 31, 2025 investment in Toloka represents an investment in combination of common stock and preferred stock, initially recognized at fair value as of the date of Toloka Deconsolidation. The Group holds 81% of the economic interest and 49% of the voting interest in Toloka on an outstanding basis. Investment in Toloka’s common stock is accounted under the equity method, while preferred stock is accounted for separately as an investment in non-marketable equity securities as disclosed below.
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The carrying value of the Group’s equity method investments as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 were as follows:
Venture capital fund
Toloka
4.7
Included in the carrying value of the Toloka investment is the basis difference, net of amortization, between the original cost of the investment and the Group's proportionate share of the net assets of Toloka. The carrying value of the equity method investment is primarily adjusted for the Group’s share in the losses of Toloka and amortization of basis differences.
The table below provides the composition of the basis difference as of December 31, 2025:
Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization
(8.3)
Deferred tax liabilities
Basis difference
(6.7)
The Group amortizes the basis difference related to the intangible assets over the estimated useful lives of the assets that gave rise to the difference using the straight-line method. The weighted-average remaining useful life of the intangible assets is approximately 5.4 years as of December 31, 2025.
The Group’s non-marketable equity securities are investments in privately held companies without readily determinable fair values and are summarized as follows:
ClickHouse
89.7
737.1
Investment in preferred shares of Toloka
97.0
2.5
Total Investments in non-marketable equity securities
In 2021, the Group effected a spin-off of ClickHouse Inc. (or “ClickHouse”), an open-source database management system. In 2022, the Group lost significant influence over ClickHouse. As a result, the investment is accounted for under the measurement alternative, recorded at its initial cost less impairment, with the initial cost determined on the date of transfer from the equity method. As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the investment was not impaired.
In May 2025, ClickHouse completed a Series C convertible preferred stock financing (the “Series C Financing”) led by investors other than the Group. In connection with the Series C Financing, the Group purchased pre-funded warrants for Series C convertible preferred stock for aggregate consideration of $50.0. These warrants are exercisable only upon the occurrence of specific events, such as a direct listing, initial public offering or sale event, or upon transfer. The Series C Financing represents an observable price change from an orderly transaction involving equity securities similar to the Group’s investment, and pursuant to ASC 321, the fair value of these investments was remeasured as of the transaction date to reflect this change. In the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group recognized an upward adjustment in the amount of $597.4 presented as gain from revaluation of investments in equity securities in the consolidated statement of operations.
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As disclosed in Note 3, upon the Toloka Deconsolidation, the Group retained a noncontrolling interest in Toloka Group in a combination of voting and nonvoting common and preferred shares. Preferred shares are not considered in-substance common stock and are accounted for under the measurement alternative of ASC 321. The initial cost basis of the Group’s holdings of Toloka Group’s preferred stock was determined based on the purchase price in the Toloka financing transaction and amounted to $97.0. As of December 31, 2024 and 2025, the investment was not impaired, and there were no downward or upward adjustments.
6. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
Fair value measurements are determined in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements, which defines fair value as an exit price that represents the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. ASC 820 establishes a framework for fair value measurements and includes a three-tier hierarchy that prioritizes the use of observable inputs for fair value measurements:
Level 1—observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2—inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly; and
Level 3— unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activities.
Investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis
The Group's financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis include investments in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds, accounts receivables, other assets (except prepayments and deferred expenses), trade accounts payables, investments in non-marketable equity securities, equity method investments, financial assets and financial liabilities from discontinued operations and convertible debt. Cash, accounts receivable, and trade accounts payables are stated at their carrying value, which approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of these items except for the fair value of the convertible debt (Note 12).
Money market funds (presented as part of cash and cash equivalents) are measured at fair value and classified as Level 1 within the fair value hierarchy, as their valuation is based on quoted prices for identical assets in active markets or on inputs derived from quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets. As of December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2025, money market funds measured at fair value totaled $500.4 and $1,770.9, respectively.
The SAFE liability and the Tranche Right liability are initially recorded at fair value in amount equal to proceeds received and subsequently remeasured to fair value at each reporting date, with changes in fair value recognized in other income / (loss), net. The fair value of the SAFE liability and the Tranche Right liability is estimated using a probability-weighted expected return method that incorporates significant unobservable inputs, including the expected timing of future financing or liquidity events, the probability and timing of achieving specified operational and financing milestones, and discount rates. Accordingly, these instruments are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group recorded a $2.7 loss from the change in fair value of the SAFE liability and the Tranche Right liability, which was included in other income / (loss), net in the consolidated statement of operations.
Investments measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis
With effect from the Toloka Deconsolidation on May 7, 2025, the Group no longer has control of Toloka Group and remeasured its retained equity interest to fair value of $130.6, which is classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. The valuation covered the total equity of Toloka Group, including both common (fair value $33.6) and
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preferred shares (fair value $97.0). The Group’s investment in Toloka’s common stock is accounted for as an equity method investment, while its investment in preferred shares is recorded as investment in non-marketable equity securities. The valuation was based primarily on the recent financing (market approach), with equity allocated using the Option Pricing Method. Significant unobservable inputs included a three-year expected liquidity horizon, 80% selected equity volatility, and a 24% weighted average cost of capital, including a company-specific risk premium.
Non-marketable equity securities represent the Group’s investments in privately held companies without readily determinable market values. The carrying value of these securities is adjusted to fair value based on observable transactions involving identical or similar investments of the same issuer or due to impairment. The Group remeasured its investment in ClickHouse to a fair value of $737.1 as of May 28, 2025, the date when an observable price change took place, based on ClickHouse’s Series C Financing.
The Group used a back-solve valuation approach to estimate the fair value of its investment in ClickHouse. The fair value is based on valuation techniques appropriate for the nature of such investments and the information available about the investee’s valuation and is classified within Level 3 of the fair values hierarchy. The fair value of the Group’s investment in ClickHouse was derived from the investee’s recent sale of similar securities in its Series C Financing. The Group uses an option-pricing model to adjust the observed transaction price for the rights and preferences of the various classes of securities and allocate the value to securities owned by the Group. The model includes assumptions around the investees’ expected time to liquidity and volatility, as well as application of an incremental discount for lack of marketability.
The following table summarizes information about the significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement for the Group’s investment in ClickHouse:
Valuation input
Price per share in the recent financing transaction
$ 72.50
Equity volatility
65%
Estimated time to liquidity
3 years
For additional details about the cost and remeasurement amount of Group’s investments measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, see Note 5.
7. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
794.9
3,123.6
Land, land rights and buildings
48.5
381.4
Infrastructure systems
63.1
199.1
Other equipment
12.7
68.8
Assets not yet in use
163.8
2,417.4
1,083.0
6,190.3
Less: accumulated depreciation
(236.3)
(637.0)
Total property and equipment
Assets not yet in use primarily represent server and network equipment, infrastructure systems, equipment and other assets under installation, including related prepayments, and comprise the cost of the assets and other direct costs applicable to purchase and installation.
Depreciation expenses related to property and equipment for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 amounted to $27.9, $75.2 and $411.0 respectively.
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The Company capitalizes interest associated with the construction of data centers and purchases of related server and network equipment. The Company started capitalization of interest from the third quarter 2025 and there was $28.0 of interest capitalized during the year ended December 31, 2025.
8. LEASES
The Group leases co-location space at data center facilities and, to a lesser extent, corporate offices, all of which are operating leases. The Group’s leases have remaining lease terms of 1 to 10 years, some of which include options to terminate the leases within 1 year. Certain lease contracts include extension options, however, these options were not included in the initial measurement of the lease term or lease liability because the Group is not reasonably certain to exercise them.
The components of lease cost were as follows:
Operating lease cost
6.7
73.6
Short-term lease cost
Lease cost, net
10.6
75.3
Supplemental balance sheet information related to the Group’s operating leases was as follows:
Operating leases
Operating lease liabilities – current (Note 4)
Operating lease liabilities – non-current
Total operating lease liabilities
43.4
845.4
Maturities of lease liabilities as of December 31, 2025 were as follows:
Operating
135.8
2027
124.3
2028
120.1
2029
125.7
2030
123.6
Thereafter
482.0
Total lease payments
1,111.5
Less imputed interest
(266.1)
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Information about weighted-average remaining lease term and weighted-average discount rate is presented below:
Weighted average remaininglease term, years
Weighted average discount rate, %
December 31, 2025
4.2
8.6
As of December 31, 2025, the Group executed additional lease agreements, primarily for data centers, that had not yet commenced. The aggregate amount of estimated future undiscounted lease payments associated with such leases is $9,759.6 and the Group has already made a prepayment of $271.0 as of December 31, 2025. These leases will commence between 2026 and 2027 with estimated lease terms up to eleven years.
9. INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Intangible assets, net of amortization, as of December 31, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
As of December 31, 2024
As of December 31, 2025
Gross
Less: accumulated
Net
Weighted-average
carrying
amortization
remaining
amount
useful life
(in years)
Technologies and licenses
2.7
(10.6)
19.1
Total intangible assets
Amortization expenses of intangible assets for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 were $1.4, $1.9 and $6.9, respectively. No impairment of intangible assets was identified or recorded in any of these years.
Estimated amortization expense over the remaining useful life for intangible assets subject to amortization as of December 31, 2025 was as follows:
intangible
assets
4.6
3.1
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10. INCOME TAX
Income taxes are computed in accordance with Dutch, US and other national tax laws.
Nebius Group N.V. is incorporated in the Netherlands, and its taxable profits are subject to income tax at the rate of 25.8% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Income tax provision related to the Group’s continuing operations for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 consisted of the following:
Current tax expense / (benefit) - Netherlands
1.1
Current tax expense - other
Total current tax expense
Deferred tax expense - Netherlands
Deferred tax (benefit) - other
(3.1)
Total deferred tax benefit
Total income tax expense / (benefit)
Effective tax rate
29.0
No income tax expense or benefit was allocated to other comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Income tax expense and benefit allocated to discontinued operations are disclosed in Note 3.
The components of loss before income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 were as follows:
Profit / (loss) before income tax expense - Netherlands
(171.2)
(259.5)
148.0
Loss before income tax expense - other
(125.8)
(93.5)
(134.2)
Total profit / (loss) before income tax expense
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The Group adopted ASU 2023-09 “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements To Income Tax Disclosures” on a prospective basis beginning with the year ended December 31, 2025. The Company is domiciled in the Netherlands, therefore, the Dutch statutory income tax rate of 25.8% is used in the reconciliation table for the year ended December 31, 2025. The reconciliation table below is prepared in accordance with the disclosure requirements of ASU 2023-09, whereby reconciling items that individually or at an aggregated country level are equal to or greater than 5% of expected total tax expense, based on the Dutch statutory rate, are presented separately.
Expected expense / (income) at Dutch statutory income tax rate of 25.8%
3.6
Domestic - Netherlands:
Non-taxable and nondeductible items:
Non-deductible share-based compensation
151.4
Effect of revaluation of the investment in ClickHouse (Note 5)
(154.1)
(1,116.7)
Effect of pick-up of financial results of equity method investments
54.3
Effect of underwriters' fees on the follow-on public offering
(44.2)
2.9
Changes in valuation allowances
96.0
695.7
Foreign tax effects:
United States of America
32.7
237.0
Difference in foreign tax rates
7.3
52.9
5.8
Cash payments in exchange of RSUs
Change of estimation in permanent differences
(5.1)
Other foreign jurisdictions
(2.2)
The following table presents the required disclosures prior to our adoption of ASU 2023-09 and reconciles the Dutch statutory income tax rate to the actual global effective income tax rate for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024:
Expected income at Dutch statutory income tax rate of 25.8%
(76.7)
(91.1)
Allocation of expenses from legal entities of disposed businesses
19.9
5.2
Other expenses not deductible for tax purposes
18.3
8.3
Non-taxable inter-company dividends distribution
(5.7)
(7.9)
4.4
Change in valuation allowance
79.8
Income tax expense/(benefit)
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Movements in the valuation allowance were as follows:
Balance at the beginning of the period
(26.4)
(79.6)
(159.4)
Charged to expenses
(32.7)
(79.8)
(124.2)
Foreign currency translation adjustment
(20.5)
(284.1)
Temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax bases of assets and liabilities and carryforwards gave rise to the following deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2024 and 2025:
Assets / (liabilities) arising from the tax effect of:
Deferred tax asset
Accrued expenses
Net operating loss carryforward
99.0
206.0
49.3
38.4
7.9
25.5
10.1
127.1
9.9
38.2
Total deferred tax asset
178.5
436.6
Valuation allowance
Total deferred tax asset, net of valuation allowance
152.5
Deferred tax liability
(14.4)
Operating lease assets
(10.5)
(125.2)
Total deferred tax liability
(11.4)
(140.7)
Net deferred tax asset
Management has considered the amount of taxable income, including future reversals of deferred tax liabilities, required to realize the deferred tax assets and expects to generate sufficient taxable income to utilize them. Accordingly, management concludes that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets remaining on the balance sheet will be realized.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company had net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) for Dutch income tax purposes of $140.6, which can be carried forward indefinitely. However, losses can only be fully deducted (on an annual basis) up to an amount of EUR 1 million plus 50% of the taxable profit that exceeds EUR 1 million.
As of December 31, 2025, the Dutch entities of the Group (other than the Company) also had NOLs for Dutch income tax purposes in the amount of $459.7.
NOLs for other jurisdictions income tax purposes amounted to $231.1 as of December 31, 2025 and related mostly to the USA, where such losses can be carried forward indefinitely.
The tax years 2021 – 2025 remain open for examination by the Dutch tax authorities with respect to the Company and Dutch subsidiaries. The tax years 2022 – 2025 remain open for examination by the US tax authorities with
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respect to the US subsidiaries. The tax years 2021 – 2025 remain open for examination by the Israeli tax authorities with respect to the Israeli subsidiaries.
Cash taxes paid
The Group adopted ASU 2023-09 on a prospective basis for the year ended December 31, 2025 and have included the following table as a result of our adoption, which presents income taxes paid (net of refunds received) for the year ended December 31, 2025 to each individual jurisdiction that are equal to or greater than 5% of total income taxes paid (net of refunds received) for the year ended December 31, 2025:
Domestic taxes
Foreign taxes:
Finland
Total cash taxes paid
The following table presents the required disclosures prior to our adoption of ASU 2023-09 and includes a summary of income taxes paid for the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2024:
Cash paid during the year for
Income taxes, net of refunds
3.7
11. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Purchase Commitments
The Group has entered into purchase commitments for power and utilities of rented data center facilities (co-location agreement) with future payments (net of VAT) amounting to $6.8 in 2026, $7.0 in 2027, $7.2 in 2028, and $5.6 in 2029. The Group also has purchase commitments for other goods and services with future payments (net of VAT) amounting to $0.6 in 2026, $1.0 in 2027, $0.4 in 2028, $0.4 in 2029 and $0.1 in 2030.
Legal Proceedings
In the ordinary course of business, the Group is a party to various legal proceedings and subject to claims, certain of which relate to the alleged breach of certain contractual arrangements. The Group intends to vigorously defend any lawsuit and believes that the ultimate outcome of any pending litigation, other legal proceedings or other matters will not have any material adverse effect on the financial condition, results of operations or liquidity of the Group.
The Group records accruals for loss contingencies associated with these legal matters when it is probable that a liability will be incurred, and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. As of December 31, 2025, the Group has determined that the liabilities amounting to $3.3 associated with certain litigation matters are probable and can be reasonably estimated. The Group has accrued for these matters and will continue to monitor each related legal issue and adjust accruals as might be warranted based on new information and further developments in accordance with ASC 450-20-25.
As of December 31, 2025, the Group was subject to various legal and regulatory matters that have arisen in the normal course of business with related claims amounting to $6.2 (4.5 as of December 31, 2024). The Group has not recognized a liability in respect of those claims because management does not believe that the Group has incurred a probable material loss by reason of any of those matters. These amounts do not include amounts related to discontinued operations.
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Tax Contingencies
Taxes are subject to review and investigation by a number of authorities authorized by law to impose fines and penalties. Although the Group believes it has provided adequately for all tax liabilities based on its understanding of the applicable tax legislation, the relevant tax authorities may take different positions. As of December 31, 2025, the Group accrued $2.0 ($181.9 as of December 31, 2024) for contingencies related to non-income taxes, as a component of account payable, accrued and other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets.
In February 2025, the Group filed declarations for dividend withholding tax to the Dutch tax authorities and subsequently paid EUR173.7 ($181.5 at the exchange rate on the date of payment). The amount paid related to the treatment of a portion of the Class A shares received as partial consideration for the Divestment as a repurchase of shares and corresponds to the contingent liability reflected in the Group’s balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 as disclosed in Note 4.
Additionally, the Group has identified possible contingencies related to non-income taxes, which are not accrued. Such contingencies could materialize and require the Group to pay additional amounts of tax. As of December 31, 2025, the Group estimated the contingencies related to non-income taxes, including penalties and interest, at approximately $2.4 ($1.5 as of December 31, 2024).
Environment and Current Economic Situation
In 2025, the Group continued to significantly expand its global operations. The Group’s principal operations are in the Netherlands and the United States, with a growing data center and infrastructure footprint across multiple international regions, including Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Iceland and Israel.
The global macroeconomic environment continues to be characterized by significant uncertainty. The technology and AI infrastructure sectors have been particularly affected by the evolving trade policy landscape in 2025, shifting AI chip export control frameworks, and ongoing trade tensions between major economies. Supply chain constraints affecting the procurement of high-performance GPUs and related semiconductor components remain a key operational challenge, driven by strong global demand for AI infrastructure that continues to outpace available capacity. Regulatory developments impacting the AI and data center sectors have accelerated, including the phased implementation of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, emerging data center energy efficiency and sustainability reporting requirements under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, and the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act. Changes in interest rates, persistent inflationary pressures—exacerbated by tariff-related cost increases instability in the global credit markets, geopolitical conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, data center energy procurement and power grid capacity constraints, and related market uncertainty remain relevant factors. While global demand for AI computing infrastructure has driven substantial investment and growth across the sector, the Group is exposed to the risks of macroeconomic slowdowns, shifts in technology spending patterns, and the potential impacts of further regulatory or trade policy changes. The Group will continue to actively monitor and respond accordingly to the macroeconomic environment.
Following the completion of the Divestment, the Group continues to have no exposure to the risks and uncertainties associated with the operations of the Divested Businesses. As of December 31, 2025, none of the Group’s current subsidiaries are restricted from remitting funds in the form of cash dividends or loans.
Loss recovery
During the quarter ended December 31, 2025, certain equipment with a carrying value of $43.6 was lost in transit. The equipment was fully insured, and the Group has submitted a claim to the insurer and is pursuing recovery under its existing insurance policy. At this stage, the Group cannot make any predictions about the exact timing and likelihood of recovery.
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12. CONVERTIBLE DEBT
Convertible notes issued in September 2025
On September 15, 2025, the Group completed a private placement, pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of $2.75 billion aggregate original principal amount of senior unsecured convertible notes (the “September 2025 Notes”) to qualified institutional buyers, which are convertible at their option. The September 2025 Notes were issued in two equal series:
The September 2025 Notes are convertible at the option of the holders into the Company’s Class A ordinary shares at an initial conversion rate of 7.2072 shares per $1,000 principal amount (approximately $138.75 per share), subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments. Upon conversion, the Notes are settled entirely in shares. Prior to maturity, the Notes are convertible only upon the occurrence of specified conditions, including:
•
In connection with certain corporate events, including a fundamental change;
During the two months preceding maturity; or
Following the issuance of a redemption notice by the Company.
If a holder converts its Notes in connection with a make-whole fundamental change (generally including certain change-in-control transactions, delisting events, or other specified corporate transactions), the conversion rate will be increased by an additional number of shares as determined pursuant to a schedule set forth in the indenture.
The Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, on or after September 20, 2028, if the share price exceeds 130% of the applicable conversion price for a specified period, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the accreted principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest. Upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, holders may require the Company to repurchase their Notes at a price equal to 100% of the accreted principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest.
The September 2025 Notes were issued at par, but accrete to a higher accreted principal amount over time:
The 2030 Notes accrete to 115% of their original principal at maturity (i.e. $1,150 for every $1,000 issued), and
The 2032 Notes accrete to 115% of their original principal at maturity (i.e. $1,150 for every $1,000 issued).
The Group also granted the initial purchasers a 13-day over-allotment option (greenshoe) to purchase up to an additional $412.5 aggregate original principal amount of September 2025 Notes (15% of the base size), split equally between the two series. This option was fully exercised on or before September 28, 2025, increasing the total original aggregate principal amount issued to approximately $3.2 billion.
The accreted principal amount is payable only upon maturity or early redemption. The 2030 Notes and 2032 Notes bear interest at 1.00% and 2.75%, respectively, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2026.
The net proceeds to the Company from the sale of September 2025 Notes were $3,098.6. Debt issuance costs were approximately $63.9 and will be amortized as interest expense over the term of the September 2025 Notes.
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Each series of notes was issued under a separate indenture with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, serving as trustee. They are senior unsecured obligations of the Group and rank pari passu with all of the Company’s other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness. Holders of the notes have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, as defined in the indentures.
Convertible notes issued in June 2025
On June 5, 2025, the Group issued $1,000 aggregate original principal amount of senior unsecured convertible notes (the “June 2025 Notes”) in a private placement pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The June 2025 Notes were sold to qualified institutional buyers in two equal tranches:
The June 2025 Notes are convertible at the option of the holders into the Company’s Class A ordinary shares at an initial conversion rate of 19.4363 shares per $1,000 principal amount (approximately $51.45 per share), subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments. Upon conversion, the Notes are settled in shares. Prior to maturity, the Notes are convertible only upon the occurrence of specified conditions, including:
The Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, on or after December 10, 2026, if the share price exceeds 130% of the applicable conversion price for a specified period, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the accreted principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest. Upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, holders may require the Company to repurchase their Notes at a price equal to 100% of the accreted principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest.
The June 2025 Notes were issued at par but accrete to a higher accreted principal amount over time:
The accreted principal amount is payable only upon maturity or early redemption. The 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes bear interest at 2.00% and 3.00%, respectively, payable semi-annually in arrears on December 5 and June 5 of each year, beginning December 5, 2025.
The net proceeds to the Company from the sale of the June 2025 Notes were $975.1. Debt issuance costs were approximately $24.9 and will be amortized as interest expense over the term of the June 2025 Notes.
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The early conversion condition for the 2029 and 2031 Notes was satisfied during the year ended December 31, 2025 (initially as of September 30, 2025) in accordance with the terms of the respective indentures. As a result, one holder of these Notes elected to convert its Notes during the year ended December 31, 2025. The conversion amounts for the 2029 and 2031 Notes were $12.5 and $12.5, and resulted in the issuance of 242,953 and 242,953 ordinary shares, respectively.
The carrying amount of the convertible notes as of December 31, 2025 was as follows:
Maturities
Stated interest rate
Effective interest rate
Principal amount outstanding
Unamortized debt discount (accretion)
Unamortized issuance costs
Carrying amount
2029 Notes
June 2029
2.00%
7.06%
587.5
(85.1)
(10.8)
491.6
2030 Notes
September 2030
1.00%
4.15%
1,818.4
(224.4)
(30.2)
1,563.8
2031 Notes
June 2031
3.00%
6.87%
612.5
(112.2)
488.9
2032 Notes
September 2032
2.75%
4.88%
(228.7)
1,558.9
Total convertible debt
4,836.8
(650.4)
The Company recognized $31.4 of interest expense related to the contractual coupon interest for the year ended December 31, 2025. This amount, excluding interest repaid during the year of $12.2, is included in Debt, current in the Group’s consolidated balance sheet.
The total interest for the Group debt obligation for the year ended December 31, 2025 was as follows:
Contractual interest expense
31.4
Amortization of debt discount (accretion) and issuance costs
49.2
Less: capitalized interest
52.6
The June 2025 Notes and September 2025 Notes are carried at amortized cost, with an unamortized balance of $4,103.2 million as of December 31, 2025. The Group has not elected the fair value option and measures the fair value of convertible debt for disclosure purposes only. The fair value of the convertible senior notes as of December 31, 2025, which is classified as Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy, was as follows:
2.00% Convertible Senior Notes due June 2029
904.5
3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due June 2031
937.5
1.00% Convertible Senior Notes due September 2030
1,541.9
2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due September 2032
1,538.6
Total fair value of convertible debt
4,922.5
Convertible notes issued in 2020
On March 3, 2020, the Company issued and sold $1,250.0 in aggregate principal amount of 0.75% convertible notes due March 3, 2025 at par (the “2025 Notes”).
On March 7, 2022, the 2025 Notes’ delisting event condition was triggered as a result of the trading of the
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Company’s Class A shares on Nasdaq having been suspended for at least five trading days. This resulted in the holders of the 2025 Notes having the right to require the redemption of their 2025 Notes at par in the full amount of $1,250.0, plus accrued interest.
In June 2022, the Group entered into settlement agreements with holders of a majority of the 2025 Notes and completed the repurchase of 93.2% in aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes and accounted for the modification of all the 2025 Notes. The Group has to date repurchased more than 99% in aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes originally issued.
The remaining cash consideration for the remaining 2025 Notes amounts to $6.1 and $5.3 as of December 31, 2024 and 2025, respectively.
13. SHARE CAPITAL
The Company has three authorized classes of ordinary shares, Class A, Class B and Class C with €0.01, €0.10 and €0.09 par value, respectively. The principal features of the three classes of ordinary shares are as follows:
On September 21, 2009, the Company issued a priority share. On March 7, 2024, the Meeting of Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company approved the cancellation of the priority share.
The share capital as of each balance sheet date was as follows (EUR in millions):
EUR
USD
Authorized:
574,887,316
571,397,348
Class A ordinary shares
500,000,000
Class B ordinary shares
37,138,658
Class C ordinary shares
37,748,658
Issued and fully paid:
362,040,944
€
$
324,187,735
326,342,270
4.3
288,489,061
2,146,791
Class C shares held in treasury were not disclosed due to the technical nature of this class of shares.
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Amendment of the Articles of Association and Cancellation of Treasury Shares
On August 21, 2025, the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders approved the following changes to the Company’s share capital:
Follow-On Public Offering of Class A Ordinary Shares
On September 15, 2025, the Group completed a follow-on public offering of 10,810,811 Class A ordinary shares (par value €0.01) at $92.50 per share, raising gross proceeds of $1.0 billion. The Group granted the underwriters a 30-day option (from September 10, 2025) to purchase up to 1,621,621 additional shares, which was fully exercised on September 18, 2025, increasing the total offering to $1.15 billion (12,432,432 Class A shares).
The Class A shares were delivered out of treasury shares of the Company. The aggregate net proceeds of $1,126.2 after underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses were accounted against treasury shares at cost and the difference between the selling price and the weighted-average price per Class A shares held in treasury was accounted in additional paid-in capital.
Conversion of Class B shares
For the year ended December 31, 2025, 2,146,791 Class B shares (par value €0.10) were converted 1:1 into 2,146,791 Class A shares (par value €0.01).
As of December 31, 2025, the Company has 253,016,971 ordinary shares outstanding, consisting of 219,465,088 Class A shares and 33,551,883 Class B shares. The Company also has an additional 69,023,973 Class A shares issued and held in treasury.
14. SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION
Employee Equity Incentive Plan
On August 15, 2024, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the “AGM”) approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan and renamed it the Nebius Group N.V. Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Among other things, the AGM also approved the extension of the term of the Plan for a further ten-year period and an increase in the number of shares available under the Plan. The Plan provides for the issuance of Share-Based Awards (including options, restricted shares units (“RSUs”), performance share units (“PSUs”) and awards in respect of the Group’s business units and subsidiaries (“Business Unit Equity Awards”)) to employees, officers, advisors and consultants of the Group and members of the Board of the Company. The maximum number of Company shares available under the Plan is 30,000,000 Class A shares. RSUs entitle the holder to receive a fixed number of Class A shares at no cost upon the satisfaction of certain time-based vesting criteria. Options entitle the holder to purchase a Class A share at a specified exercise price. PSUs entitle the recipient to receive a number of Class A shares at no cost based on the satisfaction of both time-based and performance-based criteria. In 2024, upon completion of the Divestment (Note 3), all outstanding PSUs grants were forfeited, as the performance criteria set out in such awards were no longer relevant for the activities of the Group after the Divestment. No dividends or dividend equivalents are granted in connection with options or share appreciation rights and any dividend equivalents or dividends granted in connection with RSUs will only vest and be paid to the extent the underlying award vests and is paid.
Under the Plan, the award exercise or measurement price per share is set at the “fair market value” and denominated in U.S. dollars on the date the Share-Based Awards are granted by the Company’s Board. For purposes of
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the Plan, “fair market value” means (A) at any time when the Company’s shares are not publicly traded, the price per share most recently determined by the Board to be the fair market value; and (B) at any time when the shares are publicly traded, (i) in the case of RSUs the closing price per Class A share (as adjusted to account for the ratio of shares to depositary shares, if necessary) on the date of such determination; and (ii) in the case of share options and SARs, the average closing price per Class A share on the 20 trading days immediately following the date of determination. Share-Based Awards granted under the Plan generally vest over a four-year period with four-sixteenths (4/16) of such awards vesting on the last day of the 12th full calendar month following the date of grant, and an additional one-sixteenth (1/16) of such awards vesting on the last day of each third full calendar month thereafter. The maximum term of a Share-Based Award granted under the Plan may not exceed ten years. The Plan expires at midnight on August 14, 2034, as amended. After its expiration, no further grants can be made under the Plan but the vesting and effectiveness of Share-Based Awards previously granted will remain unaffected.
Certain options may be granted with exercise prices that are considered to be “deeply out of the money”. These awards are considered to have an implicit market condition, and the Group uses a Monte Carlo valuation model to estimate the fair value of the options as of the date of grant. The Monte Carlo valuation model uses multiple simulations to evaluate the probability of achieving various share price levels. For options that vest based on market conditions, the Group recognizes compensation cost over the requisite service period regardless of whether the market condition is ultimately satisfied. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group granted options to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,000,000 Class A shares to certain executives with exercise prices that were considered to be deeply out of the money and contain an implicit market condition. On September 10, 2025 the market condition was met prior to the derived service period. As a result, the Group recorded any unrecognized compensation expense for tranches for which no further service is required as of September 30, 2025. For tranches that require further explicit service to vest, the unrecognized compensation expense will be recognized prospectively over the revised requisite service period.
The Group estimates the fair value of share options using the Monte-Carlo or BSM pricing models. No share option grants were made in the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024. The assumptions used in the Monte-Carlo and BSM pricing models for grants of share options made under the Plan in the year ended December 31, 2025 were as follows:
Dividend yield
Expected annual volatility
60.00
Risk-free interest rate
4.01 - 4.40
Expected life of the awards (years)
4.4 - 5.0
The Group estimates the fair value of Business Unit Equity Awards and PSUs using the Monte-Carlo or BSM pricing models. No Business Unit Equity Awards or PSU grants were made in the year ended December 31, 2025. The assumptions used in the Monte-Carlo and BSM pricing models in the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024 were as follows:
Business unit’s expected annual volatility
30.5 - 86.0
64.2 - 74.4
9.11-12.78
13.05
The Group used the following assumptions in the BSM and Monte-Carlo pricing models when valuing its Share-Based Awards:
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Share-Based Compensation Expense
The following table summarizes information about recognized share-based compensation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025:
Restricted Share Units (“RSUs”)
249.9
96.6
56.5
Share options
22.6
RSUs in respect of the Avride Group
2.6
Share options in respect of Avride Group
Business Unit Equity Awards
108.4
28.5
Performance Share Units (“PSUs”)
(8.4)
Total share‑based compensation expenses
370.0
120.3
83.4
Share-based compensation expense is recognized in respect of the awards granted to employees of both continuing and discontinued operations. For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025 the Group recognized share-based compensation expense in relation to employees directly attributable to the operations of the Divested Businesses in the amount of $341.2, $65.8 and $0.2 respectively. Share-based compensation expenses for the employees of retained businesses amounts to $28.8, $54.5 and $83.2 for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively.
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The following table summarizes awards activity for the Company:
Share Options
SARs
Weighted
average exercise
Quantity
price per share
Outstanding as of December 31, 2024
1,176,746
40.00
75,000
32.85
Granted(1)
6,350,000
96.69
Exercised
(209,864)
Forfeited
Expired
(75,000)
Cancelled
Outstanding as of December 31, 2025
7,316,882
The weighted-average grant-date fair value of options granted during the year was $8.61 per share.
The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercised during the year was $14.1. Upon exercise of options, the shares issued were treasury shares.
For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group received proceeds in amount of $8.4 from exercise of share options.
The following table summarizes information about outstanding and exercisable awards as of December 31, 2025:
Awards Outstanding
Awards Exercisable
Remaining
Aggregate
Type of
Number
Contractual
Intrinsic
Exercise Price ($)
award
outstanding
Life (in years)
Value
exercisable
$40.00
Option
1,316,882
966,882
0.0
$100.00
6,000,000
9.3
1,500,000
Total Share options
2,466,882
The following table summarizes information about unvested share awards:
RSUs
Grant Date
Fair Value
Unvested as of December 31, 2024
9,015,042
20.54
Granted
790,762
55.05
Vested
(3,788,888)
22.17
(269,912)
21.46
(9,511)
47.18
(237)
70.88
Unvested as of December 31, 2025
5,737,256
23.97
In January 2023 the Company offered holders of Nebius Group N.V. RSUs granted under the Plan an opportunity to exchange the portion of outstanding awards that would otherwise have vested during 2023 in exchange for cash bonuses. The replacement cash payments were payable in accordance with the original vesting schedules in respect of the exchanged RSUs. Equity awards in respect of an aggregate of approximately 2.7 million RSUs were exchanged in January 2023. The exchanges were accounted for as a modification of equity awards, resulting in additional share-based compensation expense recognized in the year ended December 31, 2023 in amount of $88.9.
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In December 2023, such offer was further extended to the employees of Divested Businesses, covering the respective vestings for 2024 and 2025. Equity awards in respect of an aggregate of approximately 1.3 million RSUs were exchanged in December 2023.
During 2024, on a quarterly basis, the Company offered to holders of RSUs granted under Plan an opportunity to exchange the portion of outstanding awards that would otherwise have vested during 2024 in exchange for cash bonuses. The offer was aimed at employees directly attributable to the retained businesses. Equity awards in respect of an aggregate of approximately 0.2 million RSUs were exchanged. The exchange was accounted for as a modification of equity awards, resulting in additional share-based compensation expense recognized in the year ending December 31, 2024 in the amount of $5.4. The accrued liability associated with the replacement cash payment in the amount of $0.4 is included in accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 (December 31, 2025: nil). No such modifications took place during 2025.
As of December 31, 2025, there was $133.3 of unamortized share-based compensation expense related to unvested RSUs which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3.83 years.
Avride Employee Stock Incentive Plan
Avride B.V., a subsidiary of the Group (“Avride”), adopted the Avride 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Avride Plan”) on February 11, 2021. RSUs awarded under the Avride Plan entitle the holder to receive a fixed number of depositary receipts representing Class A shares in Avride at no cost upon the satisfaction of certain time-based vesting criteria. Generally, Avride RSUs vest over a six-year period, 17% after one year, with the remaining vesting in equal amounts on the last day of each quarter over the following five years.
On February 27, 2025, the Company effected a corporate reorganization of the Avride group, pursuant to which Avride Holding Inc., a Delaware corporation and subsidiary of Nebius Group N.V., became the intermediate holding company of the Avride group.
On March 6, 2025, the board of directors of Avride Holding Inc. authorized and approved the adoption of a new Avride Employee Stock Incentive Plan ("Avride ESOP"), a participating subsidiary plan under the Company’s Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan. The Avride ESOP authorizes the grant of equity awards in respect of up to 7,926,674 shares of common stock of Avride Holding Inc. (representing 20% of the fully diluted share capital of Avride Group Inc).
The following table summarizes Avride’s awards activity for the Group:
average grant date
fair value
1,168,629
14.50
6,016,681
1.77
(139,902)
0.41
(121,226)
(10,960)
(292,156)
Transfer between the programs
860,679
(860,679)
6,605,272
1.80
15,794
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Total Avride Share Options
8.68
3,233,351
8.16
Total Avride RSUs
RSU
9.43
As of December 31, 2025, the unamortized share-based compensation expense related to Avride ESOP is $4.6 and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3.92 years.
15. INFORMATION ABOUT SEGMENTS & GEOGRAPHIC AREAS
The Group’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is the management committee, consisting of the Group’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. The Group has determined its operating segments based on how the CODM manages the business, allocates resources, makes operating decisions and evaluates operating performance. The Group’s CODM evaluates the performance of the Company’s segments on a regular basis, primarily based on earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, adjusted for other non-recurring items (“Adjusted EBITDA”).
In 2025, following the completion of the Toloka investment transaction (Note 3), the Group introduced the following changes to its operating segments compared to those presented within the notes to the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, in order to reflect the new operational structure of the retained businesses:
This change has been applied retroactively to all periods presented. Reportable segments derive revenues from the following services:
Operating segments of the Group may integrate products managed by other operating segments into their services, for which they pay compensation. Such compensation represents intersegment transactions, which are included in revenues of the reportable segments presented below. The Group considers it to be impracticable to separately present intersegment transactions for each reportable segment as such information is not readily available and is not presented to the CODM. The measures of the segments’ profits and losses that are used by the CODM to assess segment performance and decide how to allocate resources are presented below. Each segment’s assets are not reviewed by the CODM, while capital expenditures are evaluated for cash flow management.
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The table below presents Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA loss, and expense information about the Group’s operating segments:
Revenues:
Adjusted EBITDA:
Significant segment expenses:
Nebius:
Employee compensation expenses
107.1
136.3
195.0
Corporate Functions Expenses (excl. personnel costs)
17.2
24.4
71.9
Other costs and expenses
19.4
36.1
154.4
Total Nebius costs and expenses
143.7
196.8
421.3
Avride:
48.1
46.9
53.6
21.5
20.4
30.4
Total Avride costs and expenses
69.6
67.3
84.0
TripleTen:
26.4
23.6
33.2
57.1
Total TripleTen costs and expenses
45.2
59.6
95.3
Employee compensation expenses include the costs of both employees directly involved in activities of reporting segments, as well as allocated personnel expenses related to corporate back-office operations; expenses of other corporate functions primarily benefit the Nebius reporting segment as the Group’s core business and are allocated to that segment. Other costs and expenses of all reporting segments include marketing and advertising activities, as well as allocated office utilities costs. In addition, Nebius other cost and expenses include costs of operation and co-location of data center facilities and the electricity, utility and maintenance costs in data centers.
The Group accounts for intersegment revenue at fair value as if the sales were to third parties. While intercompany transactions are treated like third-party transactions to determine segment performance, the revenues (and corresponding expenses recognized by the segment that is counterparty to the transaction) are eliminated in consolidation, and therefore, do not themselves impact consolidated results.
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The reconciliation between adjusted EBITDA and income/(loss) before income tax expense was as follows:
(29.3)
(77.1)
(417.9)
Certain SBC expense
(44.1)
One-off restructuring and other expenses
(52.1)
(45.7)
Gain from revaluation of investment in equity securities
The Group’s long-lived assets are allocated based on the country of incorporation of the subsidiary with the title of ownership. The following table presents long-lived assets by geographic area, which includes property and equipment, net, intangibles assets, net and operating lease assets:
Long-lived assets:
71.0
2,994.0
764.5
2,558.8
281.7
52.3
253.6
Rest of the world
403.7
Total long-lived assets
896.4
6,491.8
Revenue by geographic area is presented based on the location of the customer as specified in the Group’s contractual arrangements. The following table summarizes revenue by geographic region:
5.4
41.1
340.1
United Kingdom
25.0
137.5
25.4
52.2
Total revenue
Revenue derived from customers located in the Netherlands is not material to the Group.
16. RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS
In May 2025, Toloka Group was deconsolidated from the Group’s consolidated financial statements following the loss of control resulting from the issuance of additional shares to third-party investors and the recapitalization of the business. Subsequent to the deconsolidation, the Group retained significant influence over Toloka Group.
For the period from May 2 through December 31, 2025, transactions with Toloka Group in the ordinary course of business included data labeling services received in the amount of $0.6, revenue recognized under a transitional services agreement in the amount of $0.8, and revenue from cloud services in the amount of $0.1. All amounts related to these transactions were fully settled during the period, and there were no outstanding balances as of December 31, 2025.
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17. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
ClickHouse Series D Financing
In January 2026, ClickHouse completed a Series D convertible preferred stock financing (the “Series D Financing”) raising $400 from investors other than the Group at a valuation of approximately $15 billion. Following the Series D transaction, the Group continues to hold a significant minority equity stake in ClickHouse and is assessing the impact of the Series D transaction on its investments in ClickHouse.
In February 2026, the Company entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the “Tavily Merger Agreement”) with AlphaAI Technologies, Inc., doing business as Tavily (“Tavily”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire all outstanding equity interests of Tavily. Tavily provides search infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence applications, including search APIs optimized for large language models and agentic AI systems.
At closing in February 2026, the Company paid $177.3 in cash, of which $0.6 was deposited into an escrow account to secure post-closing indemnification obligations and potential purchase price adjustments. The Company may make additional payments of up to $30.3 to certain key employees of Tavily contingent upon their continued employment. An additional $0.4 may also be payable in connection with post-closing indemnification obligations and purchase price adjustments.
Pursuant to the Tavily Merger Agreement, certain outstanding options to purchase Tavily capital stock were exchanged for options to purchase the Company’s Class A ordinary shares. In addition, certain Tavily employees are eligible to receive additional consideration based on the achievement of specified performance targets during defined measurement periods following the acquisition. Any such earn-out payments, if earned, may be settled in cash, Class A ordinary shares of the Company, or a combination thereof.
The Company is currently evaluating the accounting and disclosure implications of the acquisition in accordance with ASC 805 “Business Combinations”, including the preliminary allocation of the purchase price to the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed. The results of Tavily’s operations will be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements beginning in 2026.
Equity Investment and Commercial Partnership with NVIDIA
On March 11, 2026, the Group entered into a securities purchase agreement with NVIDIA Corporation (“NVIDIA”), pursuant to which the Group agreed to sell, in a private placement, a pre-funded warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase an aggregate of 21,065,396 Class A shares, par value €0.01 per share (the “Warrant Shares”), for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.0 billion. The Warrant has an exercise price of $0.0001 per Class A share and was issued to NVIDIA on March 11, 2026. The Warrant may be exercised by NVIDIA at any time on or after March 11, 2026. Upon exercise, the Warrant Shares will be delivered from the Group’s treasury shares or issued from its authorized share capital. The Group intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement to support investments in the development of its full-stack AI cloud platform and the development and construction of greenfield data centers. The transaction is part of a broader strategic collaboration between the Group and NVIDIA to support the expansion of the Group’s AI cloud infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure Supply Agreement with Meta
On March 16, 2026, the Group entered into a long-term AI infrastructure supply agreement with Meta. Under the five-year agreement, the Group will provide approximately $12 billion of dedicated compute capacity across multiple locations, based on large-scale deployments of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, with delivery expected to commence in early 2027. In addition, in connection with access to these deployments, Meta has committed to purchase
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additional available compute capacity across certain upcoming Nebius clusters of up to $15 billion over a five-year period. The Group currently intends to sell such capacity to third-party customers of its AI cloud business, with any remaining capacity to be purchased by Meta.
Issuance of convertible senior notes
On March 18, 2026, the Company announced the pricing of a private offering of $4.0 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes, comprising $2.25 billion of 1.250% notes due 2031 and $1.75 billion of 2.625% notes due 2033. The offering closed on March 20, 2026. The option to purchase an additional $337.5 aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes was exercised, increasing the total aggregate principal amount of the Notes to approximately $4.34 billion. An additional overallotment option of up to $262.5 of the 2033 Notes remained unexercised as of the closing date.
The notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company. The net proceeds are expected to be used to finance data center development, AI infrastructure investments, and general corporate purposes.
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Item 17. Financial Statements
See “Item 18. Financial Statements.”
Item 18. Financial Statements.
Item 19. Exhibits.
ExhibitNumber
Description of Document
†
Articles of Association, as amended as of August 2025.
Description of Capital Stock
Nebius Group N.V. Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.2 of our Annual Report on Form 20-F (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2025)
4.1
*
Deed of Undertaking dated as of February 4, 2024, between Nebius Group N.V. (f/k/a Yandex N.V.) and International Joint Stock Company “Yandex” (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of our Annual Report on Form 20-F (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2024)
*†
Cloud Infrastructure Services Agreement dated as of November 1, 2025, between Nebius, Inc. and Meta Platforms, Inc.
Infrastructure Services Agreement dated as of March 13, 2026, between Nebius, Inc. and Meta Platforms, Inc.
Statement of Work effective as of September 7, 2025, between Nebius, Inc. and Microsoft
Addendum Number 1 to Statement of Work effective as of September 7, 2025, between Nebius, Inc. and Microsoft effective as of January 21, 2026
Merger Agreement dated as of February 9, 2026, by and among Nebius Group N.V., Simba Acquisition Corp., and AlphaAI Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Tavily)
Warrant dated as of March 11, 2026, issued to NVIDIA Corporation
Form of Indenture for the 2029 Notes (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2025)
Form of Convertible Senior Note due 2029 (included in Exhibit 4.8)
4.10
Form of Indenture for the 2031 Notes (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2025)
4.11
Form of Convertible Senior Note due 2031 (included in Exhibit 4.10)
4.12
Indenture dated as of September 15, 2025, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, for the 1.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025)
4.13
Form of 1.00% Convertible Senior Note due 2030 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025)
4.14
Indenture dated as of September 15, 2025, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, for the 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025)
4.15
Form of 2.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2032 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2025)
4.16
Indenture dated as of March 20, 2026, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, for the 1.250% Convertible Senior Notes due 2031 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2026)
4.17
Form of 1.250% Convertible Senior Note due 2031 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2026)
4.18
Indenture dated as of March 20, 2026, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, for the 2.625% Convertible Senior Notes due 2033 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2026)
4.19
Form of 2.625% Convertible Senior Note due 2033 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2026)
4.20
†*
Office Lease dated as of December 3, 2024 between Nebius B.V. (f/k/a ADC Tech Netherlands B.V.) and Maxima Propco VI B.V.
4.21
Amendment to the Office Lease dated July 1, 2025 between Nebius B.V. and Maxima Propco VI B.V.
4.22
Amendment to the Office Lease dated October 21, 2025 between Nebius B.V. and Maxima Propco VI B.V.
4.23
Equity Distribution Agreement dated November 12, 2025, between the Company and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as managers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of our Form 6-K (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12, 2025)
Principal Subsidiaries
Insider Trading Policy (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 11 of our Annual Report on Form 20-F (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2025)
12.1
Certification by Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
12.2
Certification by Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification by Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Consent of Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V. – Audit, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
15.2
Consent of Technologies of Trust – Audit JSC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
16.1
Letter from Reanda Audit & Assurance B.V. – Audit, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
99.1
Report of Technologies of Trust – Audit JSC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, with respect to IJSC “Yandex” as of and for the period ending May 16, 2024 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of our Annual Report on Form 20-F (file no. 001-35173) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2025)
99.2
101
The following financial information formatted in Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2025, (ii) Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, (iv) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, (v) Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and (vi) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
104
Inline XBRL for the cover page of this Annual Report on Form 20-F, included in the Exhibit 101 Inline XBRL Document Set
Confidential treatment requested as to certain portions, which portions have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
† Filed herewith.
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SIGNATURES
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this Annual Report on its behalf.
By:
/s/ Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez
Name:
Maria del Dado Alonso Sanchez
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
Date: April 30, 2026
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