
CoreWeave, a leading AI Hyperscaler, has announced the launch of CoreWeave Ventures, a new initiative to support founders and companies shaping the future of AI. Unveiled on September 9, 2025, this program aims to accelerate innovation by providing capital, technical expertise, and access to CoreWeave’s AI-optimized cloud platform.
CoreWeave Ventures is designed to fuel the next wave of AI development by supporting founders with resources to scale their platforms. The initiative offers a variety of capital investment models, including direct funding and compute-for-equity deals. “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,” said Brannin McBee, Co-founder and Chief Development Officer, 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.”
The program provides accelerated access to CoreWeave’s purpose-built AI cloud platform and testing environments across production-grade performance clusters. This enables startups to fast-track real-world AI use cases. Additionally, CoreWeave Ventures offers insights into product development and go-to-market strategies, leveraging the company’s relationships with hundreds of enterprises and AI-first organizations. “Working with CoreWeave has given us the freedom to think bigger and move faster,” said Naeem Talukdar, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moonvalley. “They understand the challenges of scaling breakthrough technologies and have backed us with the kind of support that lets us focus on innovation.”
As AI adoption surges across industries, the demand for specialized infrastructure and tools continues to grow. CoreWeave Ventures supports a diverse range of innovators, from developers of foundational large language models to pioneers in vertical AI applications and infrastructure. The initiative fosters deep technical alignment through partnerships and integrations, ensuring startups can deliver impactful solutions efficiently.
This launch reinforces CoreWeave’s leadership in the AI ecosystem, empowering the next generation of innovators to create transformative technologies with robust support and resources.
CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, delivers a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the next wave of AI. The company's technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with cloud solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers across the US and Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies and featured on Forbes Cloud 100 ranking in 2024.