AI cloud computing company CoreWeave — which calls itself an “AI hyperscaler” — has launched CoreWeave Ventures, a new initiative to support founders and companies building platforms and technologies for the AI ecosystem and next-generation computing. The program is designed to help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to market more quickly as AI adoption accelerates across industries.
“We started CoreWeave with the conviction that AI’s true promise required a cloud platform built from the ground up to optimize for AI specific workloads. It took audacity, humility, and the support of other believers who helped us create the cloud platform of choice for many of the largest AI labs and enterprises,” said Brannin McBee, co-founder and chief development officer at CoreWeave. “Our aim with CoreWeave Ventures is to give other audacious, like-minded founders the support they need to drive technical advancements and bring to market the next class of innovation.”
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CoreWeave Ventures plans on supporting founders in a number of different ways. These include providing capital investment models to help companies scale, accelerated access to the CoreWeave Cloud platform purpose built for AI, testing environments across production-grade performance clusters to fast-track new real-world use cases in AI, insights on product and go-to-market strategies shaped by CoreWeave’s relationships, and opportunities for deep technical alignment through technology partnerships and integrations.
“Working with CoreWeave has given us the freedom to think bigger and move faster,” said Naeem Talukdar, co-founder and CEO at Moonvalley. “They understand the challenges of scaling breakthrough technologies and have backed us with the kind of support that lets us focus on innovation. We’re grateful to have a partner that invests in both our company and the future we’re trying to create.” CoreWeave said it is already working with a range of innovators, including developers of new large language models as well as companies advancing vertical AI applications and infrastructure.
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Earlier this year, CoreWeave had signed a $12 billion agreement with OpenAI. This deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth of equity in CoreWeave, according to the company’s statement. The company also went public, and saw a 400% growth in first earnings after IPO.
CoreWeave also recently announced plans to acquire Core Scientific, a former crypto mining company turned infrastructure player in a $9 billion all-stock deal. After going public in March, CoreWeave is now buying Core Scientific to take more control over its own data centers. This move will help the company grow faster and make its business stronger for the long run. CoreWeave will have access to massive data center power capacity, over 1.3 gigawatts, boosting its AI infrastructure in a large scale.