CoreWeave
FeaturedThe AI hyperscaler.
Founded in 2017 by Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee in Roseland, New Jersey, CoreWeave started as a cryptocurrency mining company before pivoting to GPU cloud computing for AI. The pivot proved prescient — as AI training demand exploded, CoreWeave's vast NVIDIA GPU clusters became invaluable. The company raised $1.1 billion at a $19 billion valuation in 2023, with Microsoft committing $10 billion to purchase CoreWeave's compute capacity. CoreWeave went public in March 2025 in the largest tech IPO of the year. Its customers include OpenAI, Stability AI, and hundreds of AI companies that need dedicated GPU access beyond what AWS, GCP, and Azure can provide.
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Michael Intrator
Founder / CEO
Michael Intrator is the co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave. He previously worked in finance as a commodities trader before co-founding CoreWeave as a crypto mining operation. When he and his co-founders recognized that AI compute demand would dwarf crypto mining, they pivoted the company entirely to GPU cloud infrastructure for AI — a bet that made CoreWeave one of the most valuable infrastructure companies in the world.
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