SUMMARY
- Mount Thor raised $45 million in funding.
- The funds will support infrastructure and team growth.
- Mount Thor provides cloud computing for AI.
Mount Thor, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of managed Apple cloud infrastructure for AI research and deployment, raised $45M in Seed and Series A financing.
The Series A round was co-led by CRV and Conviction, while the Seed round was co-led by Chad Byers and Offline Ventures, with participation from CSC Leasing, Enea Capital, Long Journey Ventures, and Upper90, alongside strategic angels from Cognition, Core Automation, Daytona, Meta, OpenAI, Together AI, and Vercel.
The company plans to use the funding to expand its computing infrastructure, grow its team, and build an inference lab focused on open-source models running on Apple silicon.
What is Mount Thor?
Mount Thor develops and manages cloud infrastructure built around Apple's hardware. Its platform gives AI research labs applied AI companies and enterprises on demand access to large fleets of Apple devices and computing systems.
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The infrastructure supports computer use research AI agent deployment, software testing and enterprise inference. It is designed to provide the security, scalability and availability expected from cloud computing services.
AI agents increasingly need to use the same software and computer environments as people. Many tasks also require macOS specific tools and applications. Mount Thor provides access to Apple's hardware so developers can build, test and run these agents across different environments.
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How Much Funding Has Mount Thor Raised?
Mount Thor has raised $45 million across its Seed and Series A rounds.
The company did not disclose the individual amounts raised in each round. It also raised additional non-dilutive capital to finance hardware purchases.
Who Invested in Mount Thor’s Seed and Series A Rounds?
The Series A round was co-led by CRV and Conviction.
The Seed round was co-led by Chad Byers and Offline Ventures. Other participating investors included CSC Leasing, Enea Capital, Long Journey Ventures and Upper90.
Strategic angel investors came from Cognition, Core Automation, Daytona, Meta, OpenAI, Together AI and Vercel.
Why the Funding Matters
As AI agents take on more complex tasks, developers need access to the operating systems, applications, and tools used in everyday work. Some of these tasks require macOS creating demand for cloud infrastructure built around Apple hardware.
Mount Thor aims to meet this demand by providing managed, rack-scale Apple computing systems. The new funding will help the company expand its computing capacity and build an inference lab for open-source AI models on Apple silicon.
Who founded Mount Thor?
Mount Thor was founded in 2026 by CEO Peter Voell. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Its team has previous infrastructure-building experience at Cerebras, CoreWeave, Fluidstack, Nebius, OpenAI and xAI.
"Making Apple’s operating system and silicon available at datacenter-scale is a massive untapped opportunity in AI infrastructure," said Peter Voell, Founder 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.
Market and Business Growth
Mount Thor deployed its first data centre in less than six months. The company says it operates one of the largest elastic fleets of Apple silicon, providing access to macOS and Apple hardware on demand.
Its customers include research labs applied AI companies and enterprises working on computer use research, agent deployment software testing and AI inference.
What Happens Next?
Mount Thor plans to expand its computing footprint and grow its team to support increasing customer demand.
A key priority is building an inference lab for open source models running on Apple silicon. The company will also continue expanding it's managed Apple cloud infrastructure for AI research and deployment.
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