CoreWeave, a startup that rents out Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to other companies, said Wednesday that it closed a $650 million secondary share sale, with Cisco and Pure Storage investing alongside financial institutions.
Bloomberg reported last month that CoreWeave was targeting a $23 billion valuation for the deal, up from $19 billion in a $1.1 billion investment round announced in May.
CoreWeave is going head-to-head with large cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon and Google in providing Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, to companies for AI workloads.
The following month Nvidia said its H200 GPUs had become available through CoreWeave, meaning the startup was the first cloud provider to reach general availability with the graphics cards.
In addition to Cisco and Pure, investment firms including BlackRock , Coatue and Fidelity participated in CoreWeave's secondary sale.
Persons:
CoreWeave, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Mike Intrator, CNBC's
Organizations:
Cisco, Bloomberg, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Investors, Core, Fidelity
Locations:
BlackRock, Coatue