'Neocloud' Crusoe nears stock sale for employees at $13 billion valuation, The Information reports

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'Neocloud' Crusoe nears stock sale for employees at $13 billion valuation, The Information reports
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(Reuters) -Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Crusoe, which is developing a large ​data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI,‌ is arranging an employee share sale that values the firm at ‌around $13 billion, The Information reported on Wednesday.

The deal involves selling around $120 million worth of employee shares and would value them at a 30% premium ⁠to an equity ‌funding round Crusoe announced just weeks ago, the report said, citing people familiar ‍with the matter.

Crusoe did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Last month, Crusoe said it was raising ​$1.38 billion at a valuation of about ‌$10 billion from an anticipated Series E funding round.

That round was co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital, and included Nvidia, Fidelity Management and Founders Fund as some of its major investors.

The Denver-⁠based company, which was involved ​in building OpenAI's first ​big data centre in the U.S., has raised about $3.9 billion since ‍its inception ⁠in 2018.

The first phase of its 1.2 gigawatt data center campus in Abilene, Texas, ⁠was live just one year after construction began, it had ‌announced in September.

(Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa;‌ Editing by Alan Barona)

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