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Crusoe

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Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support. observed

Location, as stated on its own site: Denver, CO, US

Hardware, robotics & energy fresh · evidence today 21 sources 48% confidence
83.5/100
Venture signal
scored above 99% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What is established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index, but not in its Early-stage view: its latest round is $100M or more and no source states its stage. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Fit not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    Venture backing, as assessed: no institutional venture investor identified · Stage, as assessed: not established by any source

    Assessed 2026-11-09 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$3.9B
2026-09-17
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
87.1
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
public pricing
homepage

Composite signal v0 71 ±14 · 3 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 23 signals in the last 60 days back this number.

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

api.cloud.crusoe.ai product surface 11-12 api.crusoe.ai product surface 11-12 console.mining.crusoe.ai product surface 11-12 dev.crusoe.ai 11-12

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (30% of the score).

↓ Scored on 3 of 4 components — adoption had no computable metric; confidence 0.48.

14 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

2 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 2 not evaluated

Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
84/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
15/100
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VIX signals 9 hard signals across 2 sources ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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What people are saying 13 signals from 1 voice ▾
Technology 3 of 4 signals present ▾
Primary language
Rust observed
GitHub stars
156 observed
Forks
30 observed
Weekly downloads (npm)
not provided
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
No team & hiring data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Market & funding stage 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Latest round stage (as stated)
not provided
Latest round amount
$3.9B observed
Latest round announced
2026-09-17 observed stale
Timeline 2 events ▾
  1. 2028-05-14 I just felt there was going to be far more demand for AI compute infrastructure solutions. · Prediction · pending
  2. 2026-09-17 Round · $3.9B

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 83.5/100 for crusoe, composed from 3 of 4 components (hardware formula), discounted ×0.91 for 70% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.8424 0.1685
funding_magnitude 0.3 1 0.3
developer 0.2 0.871 0.1742

Evidence this score rests on

Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming ↗
  2. reported $3.9B reported ↗
  3. rumor Crusoe Closes $600M in Series D ↗

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$3.9B
announced 2026-09-17 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-09-17
Money moved on or after
2026-09-17
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-09-17 by its own source.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk elevated · 0.35

Gray-market attention, not quality. 4+ HN mentions (peak 103 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 103 Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming 2026-11-06 ↗

Raw observations 66 current records ▾

Showing the 66 current records. Full observation history — 539 superseded records →

AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.technical.assessment {"council": {"dissent": false, "members": [{"agent": "technical_specialist", "domain": "technical", "signal": 0.2, "signal_source": "model"}, {"agent": "product_docs_specialist", "domain": "product_do derived council 2026-10-08 promoted 0.13
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed readiness 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-11-09 normalized 0.90
common_name Crusoe observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-28 normalized 0.90
common_name Crusoe observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 103 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 4 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397711", "title": "Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming", "points": 103, "created_at": "2026-11-06", "evidence_type": "ru observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397711", "title": "Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming", "points": 103, "created_at": "2026-11-06"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-06 normalized 0.20
description Build massive data centers and small modular AI factories observed derived 2026-10-01 normalized 0.60
description Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support. observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.70
domain www.crusoe.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.95
early_signal.assessment {"rule": "operational-early-signal-v2", "missing": ["a financing round is held — assessed on the funding-verified path (buyer_fit), not as an operational signal", "no business evidence (a verified com observed assessment 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
early_signal.status insufficient observed assessment 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 3900000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-17 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 3900000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 normalized 0.50
funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-17 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-17 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-17 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small-modular-ai-factories/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-17 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "existing_source", "obs_count": 15, "source_id": null, "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": null} observed gate 2026-11-12 normalized 0.60
github.repository.archived false observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.created_at 2026-02-26T13:31:15Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.default_branch main observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.description Fast Tokens observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.disabled false observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.forks 30 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.60
github.repository.full_name crusoecloud/fastokens observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.license Apache-2.0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.open_issues 3 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.60
github.repository.primary_language Rust observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.pushed_at 2026-11-09T09:28:09Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.stars 156 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.60
github.repository.topics [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.updated_at 2026-11-12T17:38:44Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.url https://github.com/crusoecloud/fastokens observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
github.repository.visibility public observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
headquarters Denver, CO, US observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.70
hypothesis {"criterion": {"attribute": "score.venture_signal", "threshold": 86.6, "comparator": "gte"}, "prediction": "I just felt there was going to be far more demand for AI compute infrastructure solutions.", derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.70
metric.developer.fork_ratio 0.1923 derived calc 2026-11-12 derived 0.60
metric.developer.push_recency_days 4.1782 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.90
metric.developer.repo_age_days 260.0094 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 3900000000 derived calc 2026-09-28 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 57.5728 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.90
score.developer_momentum 87.1 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.48
score.venture_signal 83.5 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.38
sector hardware derived calc 2026-11-06 normalized 0.75
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4FMKKNNTV4F06EFBB6WSX4E", "signals": [{"quote": "Crusoe gave us early access to their serverless fine-tuning product, which lets you fine-tune open models without havi observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-10 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4G0J14YQXWA55Q9FRZBKGKE", "signals": [{"quote": "Crusoe was one of only five that made the gold tier. Semi analysis found that gold tier providers like Crusoe had a to observed artifact ↗ 2026-05-22 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "We try to practice that safety culture here at Crusoe and really, you know, try to avoid any sort of physical injuries observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "what is the bottleneck for compute? Energy. So that was kind of the premise of starting the company.", "stance": "neut observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "Bitcoin was the best monetization engine we had at the time.", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_class": " observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "So we finally launched in early 2022.", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_class": "fact_claim", "speaker_n observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "I just felt there was going to be far more demand for AI compute infrastructure solutions.", "stance": "bullish", "con observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "the infrastructure to support AI wasn't going to be centralized. It was going to be distributed where energy was low c observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "So things like Crusoe managed inference, things like our serverless fine tuning product that actually helps people tha observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "So one of the analogies I've used in the past is when we think about Crusoe and sort of our vertically integrated stra observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "Well, what Crusoe's focused on doing is what we believe the opportunity is, is to build an AI super major, right?", "s observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "One of the things that Crusoe's focused on is actually trying to reduce that time to token or time to delivery of a ma observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M7AAH1BGHVNHYQYWSH3ZHGGT", "signals": [{"quote": "by being vertically integrated and owning the infrastructure, you're able to stack a lot of margin across the process. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thetwentyminutevc/20Growth__Chase_Lochmiller__Crusoe.mp3 — crusoe", "source_id": "01M4ENAWTSJYR7PF5JS3H3JFVG-m-d41ebd9f02722fc8", "extract_ref": observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-03 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity — crusoe", "source_id": "01M4FGSSFXYASDPV0R2ZJ911FZ-m-d41ebd9f02722fc8", "extract_ref": "artifact:sh observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-10 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up — crusoe", "source_id": "01M4FYH7QF8C8K0XERTDAYSNYS-m-d41ebd9f02722fc8", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:c55617013c338867e15c observed artifact ↗ 2026-05-22 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat — crusoe", "source_id": "01M4G1Z47FD7HXSJ72KXGGJ41S-m-d41ebd9f02722fc8", " observed artifact ↗ 2026-04-15 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.crusoe.ai observed enrichment 2026-11-12 normalized 0.85
website_url https://www.crusoe.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link true observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-12 normalized 0.80