Company record
Crusoe
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider that builds its own AI factories and runs Crusoe Cloud on top of them. crusoe.ai
Funding
- $3.9 billion Series F (initial closing), announced September 17, 2026. Led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. Sources: crusoe.ai.
Whether AI names Crusoe
- On the AI infrastructure map: named or cited in 13 of 50 answers to Presspool's AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 3 of 8, Claude 3 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 2 of 8, Copilot 2 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 6, Google AI Overviews 0 of 4). See the map. Of the 54 companies on the map, Crusoe ranked 2nd by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI infrastructure questions: Lambda (17 of 50), Together AI (11 of 50), Fireworks AI (10 of 50), Groq (10 of 50), LangChain (10 of 50) and Modal (10 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Nscale (9), Baseten (8), Lambda (7), Fireworks AI (6), Groq (6).
- Machine Relations Index: Cited in 2 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Crusoe in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI infrastructure questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI infrastructure |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 9 of 39 |
| October 5, 2026 | 11 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 10 of 50 |
| October 19, 2026 | 15 of 56 |
| October 26, 2026 | 16 of 53 |
| November 2, 2026 | 13 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Crusoe
Presspool asked its 8 AI infrastructure questions on November 2, 2026; 13 of the 50 answers named or cited Crusoe, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode. The sites those 13 answers cited most:
- newmarketpitch.com: 5 of 13 answers
- openai.com: 3 of 13 answers
- crn.com: 2 of 13 answers
- crunchbase.com: 2 of 13 answers
- crusoe.ai: 2 of 13 answers
- landbase.com: 2 of 13 answers
- siliconflow.com: 2 of 13 answers
- vcbacked.co: 2 of 13 answers
- wikipedia.org: 2 of 13 answers
- agentjesse.ai: 1 of 13 answers
Related records
Also on the AI infrastructure map: Arcade, Baseten, Braintrust, Clockwork.io, Daytona, DeepInfra, Encord, Exa, fal, Fiddler AI, Firecrawl, Fireworks AI and 41 more on the map.
Atreides Management, which led this round, also led Legora ($550 million Series E, October 21, 2026), CScale ($145 million Series C, September 30, 2026) and Fireworks AI ($1.505 billion Series D, July 16, 2026).
Valor Equity Partners, which led this round, also led CScale ($145 million Series C, September 30, 2026). It is also named as an investor in General Intuition ($220 million, round type not disclosed, September 29, 2026).
Founders on the record
- Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO. Source.