# CoreWeave

> CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider built for artificial intelligence. It rents out enormous fleets of Nvidia GPUs - wrapped in Kubernetes-native software, high-speed networking, and managed tooling - to the labs and enterprises training and running the largest AI models. Born as a crypto-mining shop in 2017 and rebuilt around AI compute, it went public on Nasdaq in March 2025 and now supplies capacity to customers including Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Livingston, New Jersey, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Intrator (Co-founder, Chairman & CEO), Brian Venturo (Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer (former CTO)), Brannin McBee (Co-founder & Chief Development Officer), Peter Salanki (Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)
- **Team size:** ~2,200 employees (end of 2025)
- **Products:** CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS), GPU & CPU Compute, Mission Control, Tensorizer, Storage & Networking
- **Notable:** Named a Visionary in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Infrastructure, Grew revenue from $229M (2023) to $5.13B (2025), Reached a contracted backlog of roughly $99.4B by early 2026

## Products & services

- **CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS)** — A GPU-native orchestration platform built on Kubernetes, designed to schedule and run high-performance AI workloads and scale across clusters with 100,000+ GPUs.
- **GPU & CPU Compute** — On-demand and reserved access to Nvidia GPUs - including H100, H200, GB200/GB300 NVL72, and Blackwell-class systems - on bare metal for training and inference.
- **Mission Control** — The operating layer that monitors GPU fleets, manages node and cluster lifecycles, and speeds issue detection - bundling reliability, observability, and security in one system.
- **Tensorizer** — Open-source tooling that serializes AI models and streams tensors from S3/HTTPS endpoints for dramatically faster model loading and checkpointing.
- **Storage & Networking** — Purpose-built distributed and object storage plus high-speed InfiniBand/Ethernet networking engineered for large-scale distributed training.
- **Weights & Biases** — AI developer platform for experiment tracking, model management, and evaluation, acquired in 2025 and integrated into the CoreWeave AI Cloud.

## Achievements

- Named a Visionary in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Infrastructure
- Grew revenue from $229M (2023) to $5.13B (2025)
- Reached a contracted backlog of roughly $99.4B by early 2026
- One of the largest US tech IPOs of 2025 (Nasdaq: CRWV)
- Frequently first to bring new Nvidia GPU platforms to market at scale
- Operated 250,000+ Nvidia GPUs across 32 data centers by end of 2024

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — CoreWeave IPO's on Nasdaq under ticker CRWV at roughly a $23B valuation.
- **2025-03** — Signs an initial infrastructure agreement with OpenAI worth up to $11.9B.
- **2025-05** — Closes acquisition of AI developer platform Weights & Biases for ~$1B.
- **2025-05** — Expands the OpenAI agreement, bringing committed value to roughly $22.4B.
- **2025-09** — Agrees to acquire reinforcement-learning company OpenPipe.
- **2026-03** — Reports a contracted revenue backlog of approximately $99.4B.

## Links

- Website: https://coreweave.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/coreweave
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/coreweave
- GitHub: https://github.com/coreweave
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoreWeave
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ConciergeRender/

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Last updated: 2026-08-12