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CoreWeave raises $221M

By TechTaffy Desk

CoreWeave, a company providing specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, has raised $221 million in Series B funding.

The round was led by Magnetar Capital, with contributions from Nvidia. Nat Friedman, former GitHub chief executive officer, and Daniel Gross, cofounder of Cue, a search engine acquired by Apple in 2013, also invested in CoreWeave’s Series B round.

[Image courtesy: CoreWeave]

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