CoreWeaveThe Big May Day continued as the AI cloud infrastructure startup secured a $7.5 billion loan from firms equivalent to Black stone, Magnetar AND Coat.
Earlier this month, CoreWeave announced that it did raised as much as $1.1 billion in a latest round of financing led by Coatue in a transaction valuing the company at $19 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. This represents an almost three-fold increase compared to the company’s valuation just five months earlier valued at $7 billion after secondary saleand a huge jump from a $2 billion valuation in 2013 B series extension last May.
Then last week Nvidiathe company-backed company announced its latest European headquarters in London, in addition to committing to invest $1.25 billion on the continent.
Big money
Over the last 12 months, CoreWeave has raised greater than $12 billion in equity and debt for the company. Last August, CoreWeave raised one other $2.3 billion in debt financing.
The company, which provides access to Nvidia’s highly sought-after AI chips, operated from 14 data centers at the end of last yr and expects to double its data center footprint to 28 globally by the end of 2024.
“CoreWeave is building the infrastructure to power AI innovations that are already changing the way businesses operate in the global economy,” said co-founder and CEO Michał Intrator in a statement. “The caliber of investors participating in this huge round of debt financing is a powerful testament to each the market’s voracious appetite for AI infrastructure and their confidence in CoreWeave’s ability to deliver cutting-edge innovations to major AI labs and innovators at scale.
Other firms that participated in the latest debt financing include: Carlyle, CDPQ, DigitalBridge Creditfunds and accounts managed by Black Rock, Eldridge Industry AND The Great Elm Capital.