CRWV CoreWeave, Inc. 8-K 2026-09-17 slides
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37 slides. Original exhibit on SEC.
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Offering Summary
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Security | Convertible Senior Notes due 2033 |
| Base Size | $3.0 Billion |
| Greenshoe | $500 Million |
| Expected Coupon | 2.375 – 2.875% |
| Expected Conversion Premium | 22.5 – 27.5% |
| Call Feature | Cleanup call if fewer than $100MM notes remain outstanding; otherwise non - callable prior to April 5, 2030; provisionally callable thereafter if stock is at least 130% of conversion price for a specified period |
| Maturity | April 1, 2033 |
| Conversion Settlement | Cash, stock or any combination at the Company's election ("Instrument X") with irrevocable right to fix settlement method |
| Use of Proceeds | Fund the cost of entering into capped call transactions & general corporate purposes |
| Offering Type | 144A |
| Expected Pricing Date | September 17, 2026 (after market close) |
| Active Bookrunners | Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo |
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Executing at Scale: Recent Momentum Across the Business
- Exceptional Q2 execution: accelerating revenue and margin growth, record revenue backlog, marquee customer wins, and a strengthened financial position
- Pricing and unit economics continue to expand, with both price and margins increasing across SKUs and contract tenors
- The essential cloud enabling both proprietary AI labs and the open-weight ecosystem across training, inference, and managed inference
- Enterprise adoption is intensifying across verticals, from industrial and physical AI to financial services and cybersecurity
- Significant demand for prior generations of cloud infrastructure, driving strong pricing and contract terms as AI diffuses globally
- A cost-optimized, systematic financing approach that funds the majority of capex at the asset level
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Continued Momentum with Exceptional Execution in Q2
| Metric | Value | Change / period |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue Backlog¹ | $104.2B | +246% YoY |
| Revenue | $2.6B | +112% YoY |
| Adj. Operating Income Margin¹ | 1% right arrow 5% | Q1 right arrow Q2 |
Revenue Backlog note: Does not include more than $25 billion of net new customer commitments added in early Q3.
Scaling Our Capacity
| Metric | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Total Contracted Power² | ~4.2 GW | |
| Active Data Centers | 51 | |
| Active Power | ~1.5 GW | Expanded by nearly 500 MW in Q2 |
Strengthened Financial Position
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| $14B+ | Raised across debt, convertibles, and equity in Q2 |
| Nasdaq-100 Index | Included as one of 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market |
An AI Cloud Built to Scale
- First AI cloud provider to bring up and validate NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72
- Delivered seven new AI platform capabilities to accelerate AI development and deployment
- Posted record MLPerf® benchmarks across training and inference
- Launched unified agentic AI capabilities, including Sandboxes and ARIA to fuel the AI loop
- Unlocked faster AI deployments for enterprises through cross-cloud services
Select New Customers
Select Customer Expansions
Note:
- Non-GAAP measure; see Appendix for GAAP reconciliation.
- As of Q2 2026 earnings call on August 11, 2026.
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Unit Economics Are Inflecting with Highly Attractive Contract Terms
- +5–10 pts — higher expected contribution margin on Q2-signed contracts vs. recent quarters¹
- ~25% — price increase across SKUs in July 2026
- ~$40M/MW — recent pricing range for signed short-dated contracts (3–6 months) in Q3²
- ~70% — of deals signed in Q2 included customer prepayment
Note:
- Reflects contribution margin across all Q2-signed contracts.
- Calculated as annualized revenue divided by power required to service clusters for related short-term contracts.
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CoreWeave Powers Both the Proprietary and Open AI Ecosystems
The essential cloud enabling the world's leading proprietary AI labs and the open-weight ecosystem across training, inference, and managed inference
Proprietary / Closed-Source AI
World's leading frontier labs and AI-native companies: Anthropic, Cursor, Google, Hippocratic AI, Isomorphic Labs, Microsoft, Midjourney, OpenAI, Periodic Labs, Runway, World Labs
How leading labs and AI-native companies use CoreWeave
- Frontier-scale training clusters for the world's leading closed-model labs, deployed first-to-market on each new NVIDIA generation
- Low-latency inference powering consumer and enterprise AI applications at massive scale
- Deep, longstanding partnerships spanning multiple products and long-term take-or-pay commitments
Open / Open-Weight Ecosystem
Customers / Strategic Relationships: Cognition, Cohere, Databricks, IBM, Meta, Mistral, NVIDIA
Leading Open Models Served: DeepSeek, Gemma, Granite, Kimi, MiniMax, Mistral AI, NVIDIA Nemotron, Poolside, Qwen, GLM-5.3
How CoreWeave serves the open ecosystem
- Training and fine-tuning infrastructure for both open-model developers and enterprises
- CoreWeave Managed Inference serves the leading open models at scale, with booked ARR ramping from $1 million to more than $100 million in only a few months
- Consistent leadership in Artificial Analysis benchmarks
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Enterprises Are Developing New Vertical Use Cases on CoreWeave
Established enterprises across industries are moving into production on CoreWeave.
Industrial / Physical AI
Select Use Case: physical AI, robotics, and simulation
Training and simulating the world models, foundation models, and generative-design systems behind physical AI, from autonomous construction equipment and vehicles to humanoid robots and engineering simulation.
Recent customer win
Caterpillar deploys NVIDIA Vera Rubin with CoreWeave as its data factory to train specialized physical-AI models at industrial scale.
Financial Services
Select Use Case: quantitative trading and research
Migrating high-intensity foundation-model training and AI research onto CoreWeave, deployed for quantitative trading strategies, market making, and systematic research at scale.
Recent customer wins
~10% of revenue backlog driven by financial-services customers¹
Cybersecurity
Select Use Case: AI-native security
Running large-scale AI training and low-latency inference to power real-time threat detection, autonomous response, and network protection across billions of events each day.
Recent customer win
CoreWeave selected to power training and inference for CrowdStrike’s new agentic AI cybersecurity system SafeMind.
Note:
¹ As of September 13, 2026.
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Significant Demand for Prior Generations of Infrastructure on CoreWeave Cloud
| AI-Native Scientific Discovery Company | Leading Early-Stage Research Lab | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | NVIDIA A100 (launched in 2020) | NVIDIA H200 (launched in 2023) |
| Renewal Term | Extends into 2029 | 3 Years |
| Pricing | 3-year contract signed in line with typical 1-year terms | Premium to original contract |
| Use Case | Leveraging A100s on CoreWeave Cloud to produce and refine data sets and fine-tune models that accelerate scientific discovery | Leveraging H200s on CoreWeave Cloud to support development and deployment of smaller families of models built for specific architecture |
- Greater level of experience and sophistication with prior SKUs
- Workloads already mapped to existing architectures allow for continuity of research, product development, and deployment
- Switching costs keep mission-critical workloads on proven infrastructure
- ROI proving to be highly attractive, driving pricing stability and expansion
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CoreWeave’s Cost Optimized Financing Approach
Asset-Level Financing
(Funds Majority of Capital Expenditures)
- Secured by long-term take-or-pay customer contracts, plus the related GPUs, PP&E and data center leases
- Attractive pricing given seniority of instrument and look through to credit-worthy customers
- Utilized only when costs are incurred and infrastructure is deployed via delayed draw structure
- Typically amortizes as customers make contractual payments, such that the debt is fully repaid by the time the customer contract expires
- Excess cash flow is distributed as dividends to CoreWeave, Inc. during the life of the customer contract
- Investment-grade ratings received when the underlying customers are investment grade (e.g., DDTL 4.0, which achieved an “A-” equivalent rating from three rating agencies)
Parent-Level Financing
(Funds Remainder of Capital Needs)
- Funds capital needs beyond the asset-level facilities
- Sources:
- Customer prepayments
- Free cash flow from stabilized contracts
- CoreWeave, Inc. financing (debt, OEM financing, convertibles, equity)
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CoreWeave – The Essential Cloud for AI
- Cloud Platform Purpose-Built for Artificial Intelligence Delivering Unmatched Performance¹
- Rapidly Delivering New Generations of Infrastructure at Scale with Unparalleled Track Record of Being Among the First to Market
- AI-Native Platform Offers Unmatched Product Market Depth across Managed Inference, Development Tools, Orchestration, and Observability
- Serving Most of the World’s Leading AI Labs, Hyperscalers, and Enterprises
- Systematic Approach to Financing at Scale
- Unique Combination of Growth at Scale with Attractive Unit Economics
Note:
- Based on MLPerf benchmark results, NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status, and SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX rating
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Workloads Required for AI Are Fundamentally Different
Legacy Cloud Compute Platforms Were Built for a Different Era
Serialized Workloads
- Website Hosting
- Databases
- Email Systems
- SaaS Applications
- If… Single Chip Failure: Simple Tasks Offloaded to Other Processors
- Then
Parallelized Workloads
- Generative and Agentic AI
- VFX and Rendering
- Drug Discovery
- High-Frequency Trading
- If… Single Chip Failure: Entire Job Fails, Massive Waste of Compute Resources
- Then
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CoreWeave’s AI Cloud Platform Is Singular
Only Player to Achieve Top-Ranked Platinum Status in Each of SemiAnalysis’ GPU Cloud ClusterMAX™ Ratings
| Period | Ranking | GPU Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Platinum | CoreWeave |
| March 2025 | Gold | Azure |
| March 2025 | Gold | Crusoe |
| March 2025 | Gold | Lepton AI |
| March 2025 | Gold | NEBIUS |
| March 2025 | Gold | Oracle |
| March 2025 | Gold | together.ai |
| March 2025 | Silver | aws |
| March 2025 | Silver | SMC |
| March 2025 | Silver | Lambda |
| March 2025 | Silver | Scaleway |
| November 2025 | Platinum | CoreWeave |
| November 2025 | Gold | Oracle |
| November 2025 | Gold | NEBIUS |
| November 2025 | Gold | Azure |
| November 2025 | Gold | Crusoe |
| November 2025 | Gold | FluidStack |
| November 2025 | Silver | together.ai |
| November 2025 | Silver | Lambda |
| November 2025 | Silver | Google Cloud |
| November 2025 | Silver | aws |
| November 2025 | Silver | Scaleway |
| November 2025 | Silver | Cirrascale |
| November 2025 | Silver | VULTR |
| November 2025 | Silver | VOLTAGE PARK |
| November 2025 | Silver | CORE |
| November 2025 | Silver | firmus |
| November 2025 | Silver | GMO GPU CLOUD |
| November 2025 | Silver | TENSORWAVE |
Below Silver Status: ~200 Other Cloud Platforms
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Recent Expansion of Collaboration with NVIDIA Follows Track Record of Delivering Bleeding-Edge Compute at Scale
Established Track Record of Being First-to-Market for Latest Generations of NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Technology
| Period | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Nov 2022 | Among the first providers to offer cloud instances with NVIDIA H100 |
| Aug 2024 | First to market with NVIDIA H200 tensor core GPUs |
| Feb 2025 | First cloud provider to announce general availability of NVIDIA GB200 |
| Jul 2025 | First cloud provider to deploy NVIDIA GB300 |
| Dec 2025 | First cloud provider to be named NVIDIA GB200 Exemplar Cloud |
| Jun 2026 | First AI cloud provider to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 |
Continued Expansion of Strategic Relationship With NVIDIA to Deliver AI
Distribution of CoreWeave’s Cloud Stack
- Test and validate CoreWeave’s AI-native cloud stack to work towards including within NVIDIA’s reference architectures for NVIDIA cloud, enterprise, and sovereign customers
Accelerated Buildout of 5GW of Cloud Infrastructure
- Build and deliver more than 5GW of cloud infrastructure to meet customer demand
- Selectively leverage NVIDIA’s financial strength to accelerate CoreWeave’s procurement of land, power and data center shells
Further Platform Alignment
- $2BN investment in support of CoreWeave’s platform, team, and shared vision for AI infrastructure at scale
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Large and Growing Footprint of AI Data Centers
- Technologies to Maximize Rack Density
- Systematized Processes and Modular Deployments
- Embedded Security
- Broad Geographical Footprint Minimizing End User Latency
- Cutting-Edge Liquid Cooling Technology
- Massive Scale
- High-Speed Interconnects
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Active Power | 1.5GW+ |
| Contracted Power | ~4.2GW |
| Active Data Centers | 51 |
| Data Centers Added in 2026 | 8 |
Map legend: Data Center; Region and/or Point of Presence¹; Backbone²
Callout: Our Extensive Data Center Network Enables Artificial Intelligence Across Use Cases and Geographies
Note: Figures as of June 30, 2026 (other than Contracted Power which is as of August 11, 2026). This graphic provides an illustrative representation of our infrastructure footprint and may not precisely reflect all current locations or capacities.
- Region represents a local grouping of data centers where customers can deploy services. Point of Presence represents a network entry and exit point.
- Represents the core, high-capacity network infrastructure that interconnects data centers and carries primary inter-data-center traffic.
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CoreWeave Has Built Expert Know-How from Delivering AI Cloud Services Across 51 High Performance Data Center Sites
Diversified Set of Data Center Partners
Illustrative Timeline for AI Cloud Services Delivery¹
| Period | Responsibility | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| Data Center Partners: 12–18mo | Data Center Partners | |
| Mo 1 | Data Center Partners | Powered Land Acquisition or Lease |
| Mo 2–12 | Data Center Partners | DC Shell Construction; Grid Connection |
| Mo 13–18 | Data Center Partners | Mechanical, Electrical, Cooling |
| Data Center Partners | Development & Construction Complete; Hand-off to CoreWeave | |
| CoreWeave: 1–2mo | CoreWeave | |
| Mo 19–20 | CoreWeave | GPU Installation & Testing |
| CoreWeave | Compute Cluster Operational for Customer |
Callout: Exceptional time to market drives competitive advantage for customers
Note: 1. Timelines presented are illustrative and actual delivery dates and timelines are subject to a number of different factors, many of which may be outside of our control, as such, such illustrative timelines may not be indicative of actual timelines.
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Our Platform Is Purpose-Built for AI
Every layer is purpose-built for AI workloads. CoreWeave Cloud is optimized for low latency, high throughput, and operational efficiency to support the complexity of large-scale AI training and inference.
Platform layers
- Application Software Services
- Managed Software Services
- Infrastructure Software Services
- Data Centers
Model and Agent Development
Tools for teams to build, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models and agents—speeding time to production.
Key Product: W&B Models
Runtime Acceleration
AI-native software that accelerates training and inference by reducing startup latency, improving throughput, and increasing utilization at runtime.
Key Product: Slurm on Kubernetes (SUNK)
Infrastructure Control
Integrated, AI-native orchestration and bare-metal control that deliver reliability, flexibility, and efficiency for complex workloads.
Key Product: CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS)
Data and Storage
Purpose-built storage services combining exascale, AI-optimized object and file storage with GPU-local caching to deliver high-throughput data access, cross-cloud reach, and predictable economics for training and inference workloads.
Key Product: CoreWeave AI Object Storage
Foundational Infrastructure
Purpose-built data centers and infrastructure that maximize performance with first-to-market GPU clusters, ultra-high density, and high-speed interconnects that enable AI breakthroughs and lower TCO.
Diagram labels: Specialized Workloads; Training; Inference
CoreWeave Mission Control™
Security, Talent Services, Observability
CoreWeave Mission Control™ integrates security, observability, and talent services—including node, rack, and fleet lifecycle management—to enable intelligent, unified orchestration from foundational infrastructure to agent development.
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CoreWeave’s Cloud Infrastructure Flywheel: Continuous Optimization at Scale
Chart: Massive Troves of Data Unlock Deep Insights into Infrastructure Management
Horizontal-axis labels: 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
Vertical-axis labels: 330.0 TFLOPS to 364.0 TFLOPS, in 2.0 TFLOPS increments.
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Data-Driven Advantages Driving Differentiation
- Customer-led approach to software innovation
- Develop new products (e.g. AI Object Storage) to solve key customer pain points
- IaaS and cloud software platform optimized for AI
- Software sold as standalone license or bundled with infrastructure as unified cloud platform
Slide 21
CoreWeave Serves the World’s Leading AI Companies
- Anthropic: Anthropic partnership reinforces CoreWeave’s role as trusted infrastructure partner to leading AI labs
- Cohere: CoreWeave’s new Canadian data center allows Cohere to train some of its LLMs in Canada, previously not an option due to the lack of necessary compute
- Google Cloud: High performance compute partner to Google Cloud as of Q2’25, has already signed multiple contracts
- IBM: CoreWeave delivers supercomputers to IBM, and partners to deliver IBM Storage Scale system to CoreWeave customers
- Meta: Expanding partnership with Meta to power next generation workloads
- Microsoft: Longstanding customer relationship with several contracts signed, demonstrating commitment to CoreWeave
- Mistral AI: Partnership with CoreWeave offloads burden of managing infrastructure and other operational tasks
- NVIDIA: CoreWeave serves as scaled AI Hyperscaler used to pressure-test next-gen NVIDIA chips; NVIDIA is also a CoreWeave customer
- OpenAI: CoreWeave’s relationship with OpenAI represents ability to deliver reliable and performant infrastructure for some of the most demanding, bleeding-edge AI Labs
Slide 22
Track Record of Expansion with Our Customers
Land + Expand: Customer A
- Land with test clusters
- Expand with new contracts for more compute capacity to serve increasing workload demand
Incremental TCV
| Period | Label |
|---|---|
| Q1 24 | New Business |
| Q3 24 | + Expansion |
| Q4 24 | + Expansion |
| Q1 25 | + Expansion |
| Q2 25 | + Expansion |
| Q4 25 | + Expansion |
| Q1 26 | + Expansion |
Callout: 392× increase in cumulative TCV less than 36 months after first contract
Advance with New Compute: Customer B
- Consistent purchase behavior of upgrading to later generations of chips while expanding capacity with older generations
Hardware Generation Expansion
| Hardware generation | Period |
|---|---|
| A100 | Q1 23 |
| H100 | Q1 23 |
| H200 | Q1 24 |
| GB300 | Q4 25 |
Callouts: + New Generations (three callouts); 4 successive generations of compute purchases
Note: Based on contract close dates
Slide 23
Holistic Distribution Approach to the World’s Leading Enterprises
CoreWeave is a central enabler for Hyperscalers, LLMs and Direct Cloud Consumption
- Multiple ways for organizations to consume compute: CoreWeave distributes via each of them
- The CoreWeave Cloud Platform simplifies the complexity of engineering, assembling, running, and monitoring state-of-the-art infrastructure at a massive scale to deliver cutting-edge performance and efficiency for AI workloads
Distribution channels:
- Through Hyperscalers
- Through Direct Cloud Consumption
- Through LLMs
Slide 24
Team with Track Record of Execution
Operating Team and Board of Directors
Co-Founders
- Michael Intrator — CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairman of the Board
- Brian Venturo — CSO, Co-Founder, and Board Member
- Brannin McBee — CDO and Co-Founder
- Peter Salanki — CTO and Co-Founder
Senior Leadership
- Nitin Agrawal — CFO
- Jon Jones — CRO
- Jim Higgins — CISO
- Chen Goldberg — EVP Product & Engineering
- Jean English — CMO
- Jeff Baker — CAO
- Sachin Jain — COO
- Ernie Rogers — Chief Architect of Strategic Financing
- Sandy Venugopal — CIO
Independent Board of Directors
- Karen Boone — Board Member
- Meg Whitman — Board Member
- Glenn Hutchins — Board Member
Slide 26
Q2’26 Highlights
- $2.6B — Revenue; up 112% YoY
- $104.2B — Revenue Backlog¹˒²; up 246% YoY
- $9.4B — Capital Expenditures³
- $1.5B — Adjusted EBITDA⁴; 59% Margin
- $128M — Adjusted Operating Income⁴; 5% Margin
- $(567)M — Adjusted Net Loss⁴; (22)% Margin
Note:
- Does not include more than $25 billion of net new customer commitments added in early Q3.
- See Slide 35 for definition of Revenue Backlog.
- Capital expenditures are additions to property and equipment plus assets acquired under finance leases, less changes to construction in progress.
- Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Income, Adjusted Operating Income Margin, Adjusted Net Loss and Adjusted Net Loss Margin are non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the reconciliation from GAAP to non-GAAP measures contained in the Appendix.
Slide 27
Continued Progress in Driving Down Cost of Debt
Weighted Average Interest Rate (%)¹,²
| Period | FY-23³ | FY-24 | FY-25 | Q2-26 | Q2-26 Pro-Forma⁴ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted Average Interest Rate | 14.9% | 12.2% | 9.0% | 8.3% | 7.8% |
| Total Debt ($Billion) | $1.6 | $8.0 | $21.6 | $35.6 | $38.6 |
| Total Debt / Revenue Backlog⁵ | 0.2x | 0.5x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x |
Right arrows appear between the chart bars.
Callout: Improvement from Q2-25 to Q2-26 represents nearly $1.1B of annualized interest savings based on Q2-26 debt balance.
Notes:
- Weighted average interest rates are calculated using effective interest rates and principal amounts of debt for each period as shown in our SEC filings, weighted by outstanding debt at the end of each period.
- We have estimated 10% effective interest rate for OEM and software license financing arrangements for each period shown.
- FY-23 weighted average interest rate is calculated using effective interest rates as of FY-24 and principal amounts of debt as of FY-23.
- Q2-26 pro forma debt illustratively shown as Q2-26 debt + $3.5B Convertible Note issuance at 2.625% interest, does not include DDTL 5.5.
- Revenue backlog includes remaining performance obligations, plus other amounts we estimate will be recognized as revenue in future periods under committed customer contracts, in each case, subject to the satisfaction of delivery and availability of service requirements. Revenue Backlog as of December 31, 2023, 2024, and 2025, and June 30, 2026 were $9.9B, $15.1B, $66.8B and $104.2B, respectively.
Slide 28
Revenue Backlog¹
Revenue Backlog: $104.2 billion, up 246% YoY, driven by continued diversification from enterprise and AI-native customers.
Chart: Revenue Backlog¹
Note: $ in billions
| Period | Revenue backlog | ≤24 months | 25–48 months | >48 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2'25 | $30.1 | 50% | 40% | 10% |
| Q2'26 | $104.2 | 40% | 39% | 21% |
up arrow: +246% YoY Growth
Callout: Does not include more than $25 billion of net new customer commitments added in early Q3.
Notes:
- Revenue backlog includes remaining performance obligations, plus other amounts we estimate will be recognized as revenue in future periods under committed customer contracts, in each case, subject to the satisfaction of delivery and availability of service requirements. Revenue backlog is expected to fluctuate from period to period, given the nature of our committed contract business and the size of committed contracts. The percentages shown in the bar charts represent the percentage of revenue backlog we expect to recognize in the months following the end of the quarterly reporting period.
- Q2'25 figures represent unsatisfied revenue backlog as of June 30, 2025. Q2'26 figures represent revenue backlog as of June 30, 2026.
Slide 29
Illustrative Impact from Ramping Multiple New Deployments Across Periods
Ramping Multiple Deployments Simultaneously Compresses Contribution Margins in the Near-term, Prior to Stabilizing in the Mid 20%s Once Fully Delivered
Chart — Aggregate Contribution Margin %
| Period | Aggregate Contribution Margin % |
|---|---|
| Period 0 | 25% |
| Period 1 | 14% |
| Period 2 | 5% |
| Period 3 | 9% |
| Period 4 | 12% |
| Period 5 | 14% |
| Period 6 | 15% |
| Period 7 | 16% |
| Period 8 | 17% |
| Stabilized | 25% |
Assumption: One new deployment of equal size begins to ramp in each period.
Callouts
- Initial stabilized margin before new deployments
- Deployment 1 begins with active power increasing ~30% period-over-period
- DC operationalization and GPU installation commences
- Margin troughs as Deployment 2 commences while Deployment 1 not yet stabilized
- Margins recover meaningfully with active power base 3x+ the size of the initial power base
- However, significant ongoing deployments remain
- Aggregate contribution margin profile at stabilization
Legend
- Gray: Existing Stabilized Revenue
- Blue shades: New Deployment 1–8 Revenue
- Gray: Run-Rate Stabilized Revenue
- Gray line: Aggregate Contribution Margin %
Note:
- Margin impact in the illustrative periods may vary based on size and timing of deployments ramping
Slide 30
Quarterly Financial Trends
Revenue
Driven by continued strong execution and customer demand for CoreWeave's AI cloud platform
| Period | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Q2'25 | $1,212 |
| Q3'25 | $1,365 |
| Q4'25 | $1,572 |
| Q1'26 | $2,078 |
| q2'26 | $2,575 |
Q2'26: +112% YoY Growth
Adjusted EBITDA¹
| Period | Adjusted EBITDA |
|---|---|
| Q2'25 | $753 |
| Q3'25 | $838 |
| Q4'25 | $898 |
| Q1'26 | $1,157 |
| Q2'26 | $1,510 |
Q2'26: 59 % Margin
Adjusted Operating Income¹
| Period | Adjusted Operating Income |
|---|---|
| Q2'25 | $200 |
| Q3'25 | $217 |
| Q4'25 | $88 |
| Q1'26 | $21 |
| Q2'26 | $128 |
Q2'26: 5% Margin
Capital Expenditures ($bn)²
Driven by scaling our platform to meet customer demand
| Period | Capital Expenditures |
|---|---|
| Q2'25 | $2.9 |
| Q3'25 | $1.9 |
| Q4'25 | $8.2 |
| Q1'26 | $6.8 |
| Q2'26 | $9.4 |
Note: $ in millions unless otherwise noted
- Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Adjusted Operating Income, and Adjusted Operating Income Margin are non - GAAP financial measures. Please see the reconciliation from GAAP to non - GAAP measures contained in the Appendix
- Capital expenditures are additions to property and equipment including assets acquired under finance leases, less changes in con struction in progress
Slide 32
Reconciliation from GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures
(In millions, except percentages)
Adjusted Operating Income (Loss) and Adjusted Operating Income (Loss) Margin
The following table presents a reconciliation of operating income (loss) and operating income (loss) margin, the most directly comparable financial measures stated in accordance with GAAP, to adjusted operating income and adjusted operating income margin, respectively, for each of the periods presented:
| Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating income (loss) | $19 | $52 | $(89) | $(144) | $(49) |
| Stock-based compensation | 145 | 144 | 157 | 153 | 165 |
| Acquisition related costs¹ | 30 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Amortization of acquired intangibles² | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| Adjusted operating income | $200 | $217 | $88 | $21 | $128 |
| Revenue | $1,212 | $1,365 | $1,572 | $2,078 | $2,575 |
| Operating income (loss) margin | 2% | 4% | (6)% | (7)% | (2)% |
| Adjusted operating income margin | 16% | 16% | 6% | 1% | 5% |
Note: Figures may not sum due to rounding.
- Acquisition related costs include direct transaction costs, such as due diligence, advisory, and professional services fees, and certain compensation and integration related expenses. We exclude acquisition related costs, as we believe these transaction-specific expenses are inconsistent in amount and frequency, and do not correlate to the operation of our business.
- In the second quarter of 2025, we began including an adjustment for the amortization of acquired intangibles in our calculation of adjusted operating income (loss). Prior period non-GAAP calculations for acquired intangible amortization are not being adjusted as these amounts were insignificant.
Slide 33
Reconciliation from GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures
(in millions, except percentages)
Adjusted Net Loss and Adjusted Net Loss Margin
The following table presents a reconciliation of net loss and net loss margin, the most directly comparable financial measures stated in accordance with GAAP, to adjusted net loss and adjusted net loss margin, respectively, for each of the periods presented:
| Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net loss | $(290) | $(110) | $(452) | $(740) | $(626) |
| Stock-based compensation | 145 | 144 | 157 | 153 | 165 |
| Loss on extinguishment of debt¹ | 9 | 14 | 4 | — | — |
| Acquisition related costs² | 30 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Amortization of acquired intangibles³ | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| Other adjustments⁴ | (11) | (12) | — | — | (109) |
| Income tax, inclusive of the tax effect of the above adjustments⁵ | (19) | (99) | (13) | (14) | (9) |
| Adjusted net loss | $(130) | $(41) | $(284) | $(589) | $(567) |
| Revenue | $1,212 | $1,365 | $1,572 | $2,078 | $2,575 |
| Net loss margin | (24) % | (8) % | (29) % | (36) % | (24) % |
| Adjusted net loss margin | (11) % | (3) % | (18) % | (28) % | (22) % |
Note: Figures may not sum due to rounding.
- Primarily relates to losses recognized upon the early extinguishment of certain OEM financing arrangements, as well as accelerated amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs related to our term loan facility governed by a previously terminated credit agreement, which was repaid in connection with the initial public offering.
- Acquisition related costs include direct transaction costs, such as due diligence, advisory, and professional services fees, and certain compensation and integration related expenses. We exclude acquisition related costs, as we believe these transaction-specific expenses are inconsistent in amount and frequency, and do not correlate to the operation of our business.
- In the second quarter of 2025, we began including an adjustment for the amortization of acquired intangibles in our calculation of adjusted net loss. Prior period non-GAAP calculations for acquired intangible amortization are not being adjusted as these amounts were insignificant.
- Primarily relates to a net unrealized gain on our strategic investments.
- In the second quarter of 2025, we began including an adjustment for the income tax effect related to our non-GAAP adjustments. Prior period non-GAAP calculations for the income tax effects on our non-GAAP adjustments are not being adjusted as these amounts were not material. Additionally, the third quarter of 2025 includes an adjustment for amounts related to the impact of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the first and second quarters of 2025, that were recorded in third quarter of 2025.
Slide 34
Reconciliation from GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin
The following table presents a reconciliation of net loss and net loss margin, the most directly comparable financial measures stated in accordance with GAAP, to adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin, respectively, for each of the periods presented:
(in millions, except percentages)
| Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net loss | $(290) | $(110) | $(452) | $(740) | $(626) |
| Depreciation and amortization | 559 | 630 | 821 | 1,147 | 1,393 |
| Interest expense, net | 267 | 311 | 388 | 536 | 640 |
| Stock-based compensation | 145 | 144 | 157 | 153 | 165 |
| Provision for (benefit from) income taxes | 48 | (127) | (15) | 84 | 62 |
| Acquisition related costs¹ | 30 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Other expense (income), net | (6) | (22) | (10) | (24) | (125) |
| Adjusted EBITDA | $753 | $838 | $898 | $1,157 | $1,510 |
| Revenue | $1,212 | $1,365 | $1,572 | $2,078 | $2,575 |
| Net loss margin | (24) % | (8) % | (29) % | (36) % | (24) % |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin | 62 % | 61 % | 57 % | 56 % | 59 % |
Note: Figures may not sum due to rounding.
¹ Acquisition related costs include direct transaction costs, such as due diligence, advisory, and professional services fees, and certain compensation and integration related expenses. We exclude acquisition related costs, as we believe these transaction-specific expenses are inconsistent in amount and frequency, and do not correlate to the operation of our business.
Slide 35
Revenue Backlog
(in billions)
| 2025 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Remaining performance obligations | $30.1 | $103.7 |
| Other amounts of estimated future revenue to be recognized from existing committed customer contracts | — | 0.5 |
| Revenue backlog,¹ ² | $30.1 | $104.2 |
As of June 30,
Note:
- Does not include more than $25 billion of net new customer commitments added in early Q3.
- Revenue backlog includes remaining performance obligations, plus other amounts we estimate will be recognized as revenue in future periods under committed customer contracts, in each case, subject to the satisfaction of delivery and availability of service requirements.
Slide 36
Capital Expenditures Calculation
(in millions)
| Three Months Ended June 30, 2025 | Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 | Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 | Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase in total gross property and equipment | $2,975 | $11,689 | $5,705 | $18,681 |
| Less: Change in construction in progress | 37 | 2,337 | 910 | 2,542 |
| Capital expenditures¹ | $2,938 | $9,352 | $4,795 | $16,139 |
Note:
- Capital expenditures are additions to property and equipment including assets acquired under finance leases, less changes in construction in progress.