CoreWeave (CRWV) Turns to $1.5B Debt Raise After IPO Miss

Faizan Farooque

Fri, May 16, 2025, 9:40 AM 1 min read

CoreWeave (CRWV, Financials) is successful discussions to raise $1.5 cardinal done high-yield bonds, pursuing a downsized IPO successful March that fell abbreviated of expectations amid marketplace turmoil.

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The cloud-computing firm, backed by Nvidia (NVDA, Financials), had primitively aimed for a $4 cardinal IPO but secured conscionable $1.5 billion. The shortfall came arsenic U.S. banal markets wavered successful the lead-up to President Donald Trump's April 2 tariff announcement.CoreWeave's indebtedness raise, reportedly led by JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Financials), comes arsenic riskier recognition markets statesman to retrieve from April's freeze. The offering would pat high-yield bonds to enactment up liquidity aft capitalist appetite waned during the IPO window.CoreWeave's financing signals the instrumentality of hazard appetite successful the junk enslaved abstraction and highlights capitalist caution astir tech IPOs amid governmental uncertainty. The determination whitethorn power however different growth-stage companies operation their superior raises successful 2025.

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