{"id":110105,"date":"2026-07-17T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/110105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:05:08","slug":"databricks-40-valuation-bump-looks-almost-quaint-next-to-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/110105\/","title":{"rendered":"Databricks’ 40% valuation bump looks ‘almost quaint’ next to Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Databricks <\/a>closes its new funding round, its valuation will get a 40% bump since it last raised capital in February. <\/p>\n

And that’s restrained growth compared with its AI industry peers. Rival Anthropic <\/a>went from $380 billion to $965 billion over the same stretch, more than doubling in a single quarter. The headline-grabbing valuations reflect the deep pools of institutional capital continuing to flow to top AI startups\u2014giving those companies dry powder for expansion and M&A as they lay the groundwork for public offerings. <\/p>\n

“Databricks’ raise is modest by the standards of the moment,” said Harrison Rolfes, a senior analyst at PitchBook. “Databricks is building dry powder and dressing its balance sheet for an IPO on its own terms, and the fun fact is that a raise this size looks almost quaint by Anthropic’s standards.” <\/p>\n

Coatue <\/a>is leading Databricks’ new venture capital round. The $3 billion in funding is less than half of the capital it raised during its previous round, which valued the company at $134 billion. In total, it has raised $29.5 billion to date. <\/p>\n

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Databricks, which runs cloud computing applications for AI models, now trails only Anthropic, OpenAI<\/a>, Tether <\/a>and ByteDance <\/a>in valuation, according to PitchBook data. <\/p>\n

In the first quarter of this year, the top five venture deals accounted for 77.6% of all new unicorn investments. <\/p>\n

“Historically, you had companies that would reach a certain scale, and the broader consensus would be, ‘Well, you get to a certain scale, and then growth has to taper,'” said Gaurav Mathur, a general partner at Pinegrove Opportunity Partners<\/a>, a Databricks investor. “We’re now living in a world where scale creates efficiency, and that efficiency is resulting in more market share.” <\/p>\n

Databricks said it plans to use the new capital to double down on some of its products, including its multi-AI governance tool for managing AI costs, its workplace AI agent, and its serverless Postgres database built for AI agents. <\/p>\n

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