Databricks, the data and AI company, announced an impressive $1 billion Series K, a late-stage investment round, at a valuation exceeding $100 billion. The company intends to use the additional capital to accelerate its AI investments and further advance its AI leadership. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight, MGX, Thrive, and WCM.
This achievement follows closely behind another portfolio milestone: Anthropic closed a $13 billion investment round on September 2nd, tripling the company's valuation to $183 billion in just six months. The back-to-back announcements underscore the continued momentum we're seeing across our AI-focused holdings and reaffirm our view that we're still in the early innings of the AI transformation.
In the announcement, the company also disclosed updated business metrics. The table below highlights the exponential growth the company has achieved since we initially invested in 2023.
| 2023 | Current | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total valuation | $43bn | >$100bn | +133% |
| Growth rate | >50% | >50% | No deceleration |
| Revenue | >$1.5bn | >$4bn | +167% |
| Total customers | >10,000 | >20,000 | +100% |
| Customers >$1m in run-rate revenue | >300 | >650 | +117% |
| Cash flow | Negative | Positive | |
| Fortune 500 usage | >50% | >60% | +10% |
Databricks' growth at this scale is rare, and its metrics would place it among the largest, fastest-growing technology companies in the public markets.
The company has also reported that it recently passed $1 billion in run-rate revenue for its AI products.
This new investment comes on the heels of the strong momentum we detailed in our recent update on Databricks' platform expansion and strategic partnerships, which showcased how the company continues to deepen enterprise value through product innovation.
Our conviction remains strong
The below is copied directly from our initial profile on the business:
In the software industry, unlike many other sectors, success comes primarily from capturing the tidal wave of growth that arises during each major technological breakthrough — the disruptive paradigm changes that tend to occur every decade or so. In just the past 50 years, we've witnessed this with the transition from mainframes to personal computers, personal computers to the internet, the internet to mobile, mobile to cloud, and now with AI.
We believe this next paradigm shift will be as big as all the others before it, and we believe that Databricks is as well-positioned as any company today to capture it.
Since writing that, we've only increased our conviction in the AI opportunity and we believe Databricks has proven its ability to execute. We continue to have high conviction that Databricks has the team, product quality, and customer base to benefit from the AI wave playing out. We remain enthusiastic, long-term shareholders.
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