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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
No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
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.
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.
Assessed 2026-11-09 for seed/Series-A sourcing.
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.
Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.
↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (30% of the score).
↓ Scored on 3 of 4 components — adoption had no computable metric; confidence 0.48.
The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened
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The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.
by being vertically integrated and owning the infrastructure, you're able to stack a lot of margin across the process. So it gives you more flexibility in terms of how you actually, you know, bill for that.
One of the things that Crusoe's focused on is actually trying to reduce that time to token or time to delivery of a managed cluster of GPUs by actually deploying small modular manufactured AI data centers that can deliver more just in time AI infrastructure, particularly for smaller clusters. And we think that's going to be transformative for the industry.
Well, what Crusoe's focused on doing is what we believe the opportunity is, is to build an AI super major, right?
So one of the analogies I've used in the past is when we think about Crusoe and sort of our vertically integrated strategy, there's really like three products that we ultimately sell to customers and where we're making money. We can sell data centers, we can sell GPUs, and we can sell tokens. Those are the three core products that we sell.
So things like Crusoe managed inference, things like our serverless fine tuning product that actually helps people that that's more of a developer tool that ultimately enables developers to, you know, fine tune some of these open source models, these, these leading edge open source models so that they can get better performance for maybe some domain specific task, or actually as their applications are scaling, they can actually serve the tokens needed to, you know, from an inference basis to, yo
the infrastructure to support AI wasn't going to be centralized. It was going to be distributed where energy was low cost and abundant.
I just felt there was going to be far more demand for AI compute infrastructure solutions.
So we finally launched in early 2022.
Bitcoin was the best monetization engine we had at the time.
what is the bottleneck for compute? Energy. So that was kind of the premise of starting the company.
We try to practice that safety culture here at Crusoe and really, you know, try to avoid any sort of physical injuries or challenges with digital attacks on the platform as well.
Crusoe was one of only five that made the gold tier. Semi analysis found that gold tier providers like Crusoe had a total cost of ownership that was five to 15% lower than silver tier ones, even when they had identical GPU pricing. This makes sense because total cost of ownership is downstream of a bunch of different things that don't necessarily show up in the sticker price, but that Crusoe has optimized. Things like how well you detect faults and how quickly you replace failed nodes. For examp
Crusoe gave us early access to their serverless fine-tuning product, which lets you fine-tune open models without having to deal with infra or provisioning. I thought it'd be cool to try fine-tuning a question generator using the transcripts of my old interviews. But the models have gotten so good that if they had all my research and prep and they could look at a conversation so far, they could ask a next question better than I would. Crusoe made the implementation super straightforward. I just
VentureSignalScore 83.5/100 for crusoe, composed from 3 of 4 components (hardware formula), discounted ×0.91 for 70% signal coverage
| Component | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| funding_recency | 0.2 | 0.8424 | |
| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 1 | |
| developer | 0.2 | 0.871 |
funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-17 artifact ↗ funding.round.amount_usd 2026-10-03 artifact ↗ score.developer_momentum 2026-11-13 calc github.repository.pushed_at 2026-11-12 artifact ↗ github.repository.stars 2026-11-12 artifact ↗ github.repository.forks 2026-11-12 artifact ↗ github.repository.created_at 2026-11-12 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
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.
A reported round dated 2026-09-17 by its own source.
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 ↗
Showing the 66 current records. Full observation history — 539 superseded records →
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |