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Mount Thor Raises $45 Million to Build Cloud Infrastructure for Agentic AI on Apple HardwareMount Thor, the provider of managed Apple infrastructure for AI research & deployment, today announced it has raised $45 million in equity capital across Seed and Series A financings. CRV and Conviction co-led the Series A. Chad Byers and Offline Ventures co-led the Seed. CSC Leasing, Enea Capital, Long Journey Ventures, and Upper90 participated, alongside strategic angels from Cognition, Core Automation, Daytona, Meta, OpenAI, Together AI, and Vercel. The company also raised non-dilutive capital to support hardware purchases. Research labs, applied AI companies, and enterprises can now easily access massive fleets of Apple's hardware to serve even more users in new ways, on silicon optimized for the future of inference. AI agents use computers to accomplish complex tasks at home and work. Some agents are long-lived. Others are created on-demand for a specific project. These agents need access to the same tools and environments humans use, and many tasks require tools only available on macOS. An increasing number of consumers and enterprises use macOS, requiring agents to learn how to use it efficiently across many different environments. This creates demand for Apple's technologies that scales with the work agents do, not just the people using them. "Making Apple's operating system and silicon available at datacenter-scale is a massive untapped opportunity in AI infrastructure," said Peter Voell, Foundr and CEO of Mount Thor. "Decades of investment in accessibility and human-computer interaction make macOS the best place for agents to work and for humans to hold them accountable. And with chips like the M5 Ultra, Apple silicon is becoming a high performance, more power- and cost-efficient platform for production inference." Mount Thor develops, deploys, and manages rack-scale systems of Apple hardware, with the security, scalability, availability and price performance customers expect from a cloud provider. Apple's application of innovative technology across a focused set of devices and services has earned the trust of enterprises and end users alike. Mount Thor's infrastructure unlocks new use cases for Apple's platforms, including:
"Mount Thor sits at the intersection of two important shifts: the rapidly expanding capabilities of autonomous agents and the increasing demand for compute that can support both local and cloud workloads," said Brittany Walker, General Partner at CRV. "We're thrilled to back Peter and the team as they make it easier to use Apple's platforms at scale for agentic AI." Mount Thor deployed its first data center in less than six months and plans to rapidly expand to meet customer demand. The team previously built infrastructure at Cerebras, CoreWeave, Fluidstack, Nebius, OpenAI, and xAI. The financing proceeds will be used to expand its compute footprint and build the team, with a particular focus on creating the best inference lab for open-source models on Apple silicon. About Mount Thor Mount Thor builds cloud infrastructure for Apple hardware to advance AI research & deployment. The company operates one of the largest elastic fleets of Apple silicon, making macOS and Apple silicon available on demand for computer-use research, agent deployment, software testing, and enterprise inference. Founded in 2026, Mount Thor is headquartered in San Francisco. To learn more or request access to Mount Thor's capacity, please visit www.mountthor.com
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