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CoreWeave, Inc.
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: CRWV
IndustryCloud computing
Founded2017; 8 years ago (2017) (as Atlantic Crypto) in New Jersey
Founders
  • Michael Intrator
  • Brian Venturo
  • Brannin McBee
  • Peter Salanki
Headquarters
Livingston, New Jersey
,
United States
Area served
International
Key people
Michael Intrator (CEO)
ServicesAccess to high-performance computing centers, supercomputers, cloud computing, AI infrastructure
RevenueIncrease US$1.92 billion[1] (2024)
Number of employees
550 (2024)
Websitecoreweave.com

CoreWeave, Inc. is an American AI cloud-computing startup based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure to artificial intelligence developers and enterprises,[2][3][4][5] and also develops its own chip management software.[6]

Founded in 2017 and focused on high-performance computing,[2] CoreWeave has its own data centers operating in the United States and Europe,[7] with some dedicated to multiple companies and some to a single client.[3] Its $1.6 billion supercomputer data center for Nvidia in Plano, Texas[3] has been described by Nvidia as the fastest AI supercomputer in the world.[8]

History

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2017-2021

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The company was founded in 2017 in New Jersey[2] by three commodities traders—Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee,[2][3][9] as well as Peter Salanki.[10] Originally known as Atlantic Crypto, it initially operated as a cryptocurrency company mining ethereum using graphics processing units. In the wake of the 2018 cryptocurrency crash, in 2019 the company was renamed CoreWeave, leveraging its large inventory of GPUs to start providing cloud computing infrastructure to companies.[2][3][9]

2022-2023

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CoreWeave was operating three data centers in 2022, all in the United States.[9] In the summer of 2022, the company invested heavily in Nvidia's latest and fastest H100 chips, spending around $100 million on the purchases.[2] CoreWeave launched an accelerator program[7][11] in October 2022, which gives startup companies "compute credits in addition to discounts and other hardware resources on the CoreWeave cloud."[12] As the market demand for AI processing increased in 2022 and 2023,[3] CoreWeave, which had unique access to Nvidia GPUs,[13] saw its business jump considerably. With CoreWeave signing clients such as Stability AI, CoreWeave continued to buy chips and build out new data centers, with its data center technicians installing 6,000 miles of fiber-optic cabling in 2023.[3] The company was valued around $2 billion by May 2023.[9] In August 2023, CoreWeave secured a $2.3 billion debt financing facility led by Magnetar Capital and Blackstone by using Nvidia's H100 GPUs as collateral.[14] The deal marked the first time that H100-based hardware had been used as collateral,[15] which attracted some note in the business press.[2][13]

2024-2025

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The company raised $1.1 billion in funding led by Coatue Management in May 2024, reportedly valuing the company at $19 billion.[4][16] By August 2024, Nvidia had invested a total of $100 million in CoreWeave.[9] According to a Bloomberg News report in October 2024, Cisco was set to invest in CoreWeave as well, reportedly valuing the company at $23 billion.[17] Also in October 2024, CoreWeave announced that it secured a $650 million credit line for expanding its operations and data centers.[18] Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley were among those who led the financing.[18][19]

The company had announced plan by 2024 to invest $978.6 million in U.K. data centers.[20] In June 2024, CoreWeave's offer to buy Core Scientific,[21][22] which sells high-performance computing (HPC) capacity,[7] for $1 billion was rejected.[21][22] In November 2024, Tom's Hardware reported that CoreWeave was among the first cloud service providers to receive shipments of Nvidia's new Blackwell hardware.[23]

In November 2024, CoreWeave closed a $650 million secondary share sale,[24] with investors such as Jane Street, Magnetar Capital, Fidelity Management, and Macquarie Capital.[25] Bloomberg reported in November 2024 that CoreWeave was planning a 2025 initial public offering, and had selected Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan Chase to manage.[26] CoreWeave filed its Form S-1 in March 2025 and planned to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol "CRWV".[1] According to the filing, Microsoft accounted for over 60 percent of CoreWeave's revenue in 2024.[27]

In Feb. 2025, CoreWeave was reported to be the first cloud provider to make Nvidia GB200 NVL72 chips available via cloud computing. IBM announced it would use the GB200 clusters to train its Granite AI.[28] In March 2025, CoreWeave announced the acquisition of the AI platform developer Weights & Biases, reportedly for around $1.7 billion.[29] Also in March, OpenAI signed a five-year cloud-computing contract worth approximately $12 billion with CoreWeave for its AI infrastructure needs. The deal allowed OpenAI to acquire a stake in CoreWeave through a private placement of $350 million worth of shares during the IPO.[30] CoreWeave reduced its IPO size from $2.7 billion to $1.5 billion on March 27, 2025.[31] It went public on March 28, 2025, raising $1.5 billion, and was the largest AI-related listing by amount raised, according to Dealogic.[32]

Key people and employees

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Headquartered in New Jersey,[11] as of 2024 the company had around 550 employees.[3] Michael Intrator is the company's chief executive, while the other co-founders, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee,[2] are the chief strategy officer and chief development officer, respectively. Co-founder Peter Salanki is CTO.[10] In 2024, Nitin Agrawal from Google joined as CFO. Chetan Kapoor of Amazon Web Services became chief product officer in Jun. 2024.[33] In Aug. 2024, Sachin Jain, formerly of Oracle's AI department, was hired as chief operating officer. Simultaneously, Chen Goldberg, formerly of Google, was hired as senior VP of engineering.[34] In October 2024, Michelle O’Rourke was named its new chief people officer,[35] and in Feb. 2025, Glenn Hutchins was appointed the lead independent director.[36]

Cloud platform and software

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The Coreweave Cloud Platform[37] consists of infrastructure built on a Kubernetes-native architecture, designed to support large-scale, GPU-intensive tasks.[7] CoreWeave's cloud-based infrastructure is specifically designed for AI use cases,[9] such as developers building AI applications.[11] Its Mission Control software allows customers to control and verify the performance of the hardware components they're utilizing.[6]

Data centers

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CoreWeave has its own data centers operating in both the United States and Europe.[7] In 2025, it had 32 data centers,[32] with a total of 250,000 GPUs.[38] This was a significant growth from 2024, when the company had thirteen data centers across the United States and two in the United Kingdom.[7][11] It opened a headquarters in London in 2024,[11] as well as two UK data centers.[7] Also in 2024, CoreWeave signed a lease to build a $1.2 billion data center[39] in a 280,000 sq ft space at the Northeast Science and Technology Center in Kenilworth, New Jersey.[40][41]

While some of its data centers are rented by multiple companies, others are dedicated to a single client[3] or special projects.[12] Its $1.6 billion supercomputer data center for Nvidia in Plano, Texas, for example, is around 450,000 square feet[3] and utilizes over 3,500 H100s.[12] In September 2023, Nvidia and CoreWeave asserted that the project was the fastest AI supercomputer in the world.[8]

CoreWeave also rents high-performance computing (HPC) capacity from Core Scientific.[7][42][unreliable source?]

In December 2024, Canadian AI startup Cohere announced plans to build a multi-billion data center built and operated by CoreWeave.[43] CoreWeave announced in Jan. 2025 that two new data centers in the UK hosting Nvidia Hopper (Nvidia H200) GPUs were operational, after beginning development on both in 2024.[44]

In Dec. 2024, Dell and CoreWeave began partnering on infrastructure.[45] In 2025, CoreWeave and Microsoft invested in launching AI Hub in New Jersey, which is a project by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Princeton University.[46]

See also

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References

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