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  "markdown": "Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, Crusoe.\n\nChase Lochmiller co-founded Crusoe in 2018 and is its CEO and chairman of the board. He has built a team of more than 300 people across engineering, operations and finance, and has held key roles in more than $600 million of fundraising for the company. He studied at MIT and Stanford.\n\n## What Chase builds\n\n- [Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.md), graded B, 63.4/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Crusoe Cloud rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU virtual machines with managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and runs hosted model inference, dedicated deployments and LoRA fine-tuning. Resources are managed through a REST API, a CLI, a Terraform provider and a Go client. Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, Crusoe, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Cully Cavness](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/cully-cavness/), Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lowercarbon-capital/)\n- [DRW](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/drw/)\n- [Founders Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-fund/)\n- [Bain Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bain-capital/)\n- [Coinbase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coinbase/)\n- [Polychain Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/polychain-capital/)\n- [KCK Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kck-group/)\n- [Upper90](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/upper90/)\n- [Winklevoss Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/winklevoss-capital/)\n- [Exor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/exor/)\n- [Zigg Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zigg-capital/)\n- [Valor Equity Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/valor-equity-partners/)\n- [JB Straubel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jb-straubel/)\n- [Fidelity Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fidelity-investments/)\n- [Long Journey Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/long-journey-ventures/)\n- [Mubadala Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mubadala-capital/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Ribbit Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ribbit-capital/)\n- [137 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/137-ventures/)\n- [1789 Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/1789-capital/)\n- [Activate Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/activate-capital/)\n- [Altimeter Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altimeter-capital/)\n- [Atreides Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/atreides-management/)\n- [BAM Elevate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bam-elevate/)\n- [DPR Construction](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dpr-construction/)\n- [Ora Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ora-global/)\n- [Franklin Templeton](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/franklin-templeton/)\n- [Galvanize](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/galvanize/)\n- [M37 Management](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/m37-management/)\n- [MCJ](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mcj/)\n- [Radical Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/radical-ventures/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Spark Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spark-capital/)\n- [StepStone Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stepstone-group/)\n- [Supermicro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/supermicro/)\n- [T. Rowe Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/t-rowe-price/)\n- [Tiger Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tiger-global/)\n- [Saquon Barkley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/saquon-barkley/)\n- [GIC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gic/)\n- [Qatar Investment Authority](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/qatar-investment-authority/)\n- [TPG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tpg/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chase Lochmiller?\n\nChase Lochmiller co-founded Crusoe in 2018 and is its CEO and chairman of the board. He has built a team of more than 300 people across engineering, operations and finance, and has held key roles in more than $600 million of fundraising for the company. He studied at MIT and Stanford.\n\n### What does Crusoe make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Crusoe Cloud from Crusoe. Crusoe Cloud rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU virtual machines with managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and runs hosted model inference, dedicated deployments and LoRA fine-tuning. Resources are managed through a REST API, a CLI, a Terraform provider and a Go client.\n\n### Who has invested in Crusoe?\n\nThe sources our research read name Lowercarbon Capital, DRW, Founders Fund, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Polychain Capital, KCK Group, Upper90, Winklevoss Capital, Exor, Zigg Capital, Valor Equity Partners, JB Straubel, Fidelity Investments, Long Journey Ventures, Mubadala Capital, NVIDIA, Ribbit Capital, 137 Ventures, 1789 Capital, Activate Capital, Altimeter Capital, Atreides Management, BAM Elevate, DPR Construction, Ora Global, Franklin Templeton, Galvanize, M37 Management, MCJ, Radical Ventures, Salesforce, Spark Capital, StepStone Group, Supermicro, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global, Saquon Barkley, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority and TPG.\n\n### How are Chase's tools graded?\n\nCrusoe Cloud is graded B, 63.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.crusoe.ai/\n- https://www.crusoe.ai/contact-us\n- https://www.crusoe.ai/about/leadership\n- https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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