Overview
Poolside is a foundation model company building AI for software engineering, partnered with CoreWeave for GPU infrastructure and Project Horizon — a planned 2 GW AI campus in West Texas. CoreWeave served as anchor tenant (250 MW, 15-year lease) before exiting in April 2026 when Poolside's $2B Series C fell apart. Nvidia subsequently struck a $6B licensing deal with Poolside in August 2026.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
Headquarters
Status
Type
Founders
Founded
HQ
CoreWeave Partnership
Project Horizon
Total Fundingsee investors →
Nvidia Deal
CoreWeave Deal Status
Partnerships
Every company Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave) has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Poolside x CoreWeave (Project Horizon)2025-10-15with CoreWeaveoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Jason Warner CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Eiso Kant Co-CEO & CTOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave).
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave) in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave) has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Poolside x CoreWeave (Project Horizon)2025-10-15with CoreWeaveoperating
Funding rounds (2)
Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave)’s 2 disclosed rounds, $626M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2024-10-02
$500M(reported) · $3.0B post
- Seed2023-08-01
$126M(reported) · $526M post
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry
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Methodology: Claimed (not independently verified) · no sources on file · last reviewed 2026-08-28
Verification posture
Claimed (not independently verified)
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-28
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Methodology surface for Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave).In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave) from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Poolside AI's $14B Texas Collapse: CoreWeave Out
CoreWeave walked away from its 15-year anchor lease on Project Horizon in early April 2026 after Poolside's $2B Series C at $14B valuation fell apart, leaving the 568-acre…
How CoreWeave and Poolside Are Teaming Up in West Texas to Build the Next Generation of AI Data Centers
CoreWeave and Poolside are joining forces on Project Horizon, a 2 GW AI campus in West Texas with 40,000 NVIDIA GPUs, developed in eight phases of 250 MW each on 568 acres…
CoreWeave Announces Partnership with Foundation Model Company Poolside to Deliver AI Cloud Services
CoreWeave announced a partnership with Poolside to provide 40,000+ NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs and serve as anchor tenant for Project Horizon, Poolside's 2 GW AI campus in West Texas,…
AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia, and others
Poolside raised $500M in a Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Nvidia, eBay Ventures, DST Global, StepStone Group, and others, bringing total raised to…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/poolside-anchor-tenant-coreweave.md
- RSS feed: /companies/poolside-anchor-tenant-coreweave/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/7b0d17e0-eace-49c9-861b-5a5b01fd4352
- Revision history: /companies/poolside-anchor-tenant-coreweave/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
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Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Poolside (anchor tenant CoreWeave) against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 5, 2026