GoKawiilMount Thor raises $45M to rent Mac-based cloud servers for AI agents
Mount Thor, a Bay Area startup, announced a $45 million raise across Seed and Series A rounds to build data centers running macOS on Apple silicon as rentable cloud instances. CRV and Conviction co-led the Series A, with Chad Byers and Offline Ventures co-leading the Seed, alongside participation from CSC Leasing, Enea Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Upper90, and angel investors from OpenAI, Meta, Cognition, Together AI, and Vercel. The company also secured separate non-dilutive financing for hardware.
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The funding suggests investors see demand for macOS-specific cloud infrastructure to support AI agents that need to train on computer-use tasks or operate securely across Apple devices, a niche largely unaddressed by existing Linux-based cloud providers. Backing from employees of major AI labs could indicate practical interest in macOS sandboxes for agent testing and deployment, though actual enterprise adoption remains unproven. The non-dilutive hardware financing points to the capital-intensive nature of running physical Mac fleets at scale.
- Mount Thor raised $45 million in combined Seed and Series A funding.
- The startup rents macOS instances on Apple silicon for AI agent training and sandboxing, similar to how cloud providers rent Linux VMs.
- Investors include CRV, Conviction, and angels from OpenAI, Meta, Cognition, Together AI, and Vercel.
Source: 9to5mac.com — Bradley C, 2026-11-12
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