Situational Awareness

Venture Capital

Investment firm founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner.

Portfolio

companies

Fluidstack

Cloud computing startup leasing high performance compute capacity for artificial intelligence workloads.

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Founder

Leopold is the founder and CIO of Situational Awareness, following a role on the superalignment team at OpenAI.

5 December 2025

$700M

Fluidstack negotiates a $700m funding round led by Situational Awareness at a $7bn valuation.

The cloud computing startup is raising capital to support its expansion as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure surges.