Gov. Wes Moore announced that AI platform company Cloudforce will expand its headquarters at National Harbor in Prince George’s County, retaining more than 130 current employees while adding 250 new jobs over the next five years.
The company is leasing an additional 15,000 square feet of office space, roughly doubling its headquarters footprint, as it scales its secure AI platform for higher education and other public-sector clients. Cloudforce considered expansion sites across the broader D.C. region before deciding to grow in place, citing Maryland’s technical workforce, its universities, and the state’s focus on economic competitiveness.
“Cloudforce’s expansion and continued commitment to Maryland is a win for our state’s workers, students, and our future,” Moore said in a statement announcing the deal.
Cloudforce began as a Microsoft cloud specialist and has since grown into what the company describes as a frontier AI platform business. Its flagship product, nebulaONE®, gives institutions governed access to AI models and automated workflows; the platform’s adoption at the University of Maryland, UCLA, London Business School and the University of Oxford, among others, helped Cloudforce earn Microsoft’s global Education Partner of the Year honor in 2025.
Founder and CEO Husein Sharaf said the company had options to expand elsewhere but chose to stay rooted in Maryland instead. Cloudforce is also involved in the governor’s Service Year initiative and works with the University of Maryland both as a vendor and as an employer of recent graduates.
The expansion comes with public incentives: a $1.25 million conditional loan through the state’s Advantage Maryland program, administered by the Maryland Department of Commerce, and a $125,000 conditional loan from the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation. Cloudforce may also qualify for additional state and local tax credits, including the Job Creation Tax Credit.
Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy and Maryland Commerce Secretary Harry Coker Jr. both framed the expansion as evidence of the region’s growing role in the AI industry, pointing to Cloudforce’s work with the University of Maryland and Prince George’s Community College on workforce training.
