Luxor Technology raised $16 million in a strategic round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead and angel investors. The company plans to use the proceeds to scale its agentic cloud platform, grow its AI hardware business, expand compute derivatives trading and hire more staff. Luxor has expanded its hardware business to source GPUs and AI servers as global chip supply chains become increasingly hard to navigate. It raised $5 million in a Series A round led by NYDIG in June 2021, and earlier seed investors included Celsius, Valour and Bitnomial.
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