Founder Profile
Michael Intrator
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Michael Intrator?
Michael Intrator is a founder of CoreWeave, Inc., which was founded in 2017 with Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee.
- Company founded
- CoreWeave, Inc.
- Founded
- 2017
- Co-founders
- Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee
Background
Before CoreWeave, Intrator worked in energy and commodities trading and co-founded Hudson Ridge Asset Management, a natural gas-focused hedge fund.
Founding Story
Michael Intrator is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of CoreWeave. A former natural gas trader and hedge fund manager, he led the company's pivot from crypto mining to GPU cloud in 2019, its GPU-backed debt financings, the March 2025 Nasdaq IPO, and multi-billion-dollar contracts with Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- CoreWeave Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 (SEC EDGAR) (CoreWeave, Inc.)
- CoreWeave Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Results (CoreWeave, Inc.)