Releases

Crusoe closed a $350 million Series C equity financing led by G2 Venture Partners to scale its climate-aligned computing infrastructure.

ElevenLabs' first financing valued the company at $9 million.

Hugging Face acquired Gradio, bringing its open-source interface framework and team into the company while keeping the project open source.

EliseAI raised a $23.5 million Series B backed by Navitas Capital, JLL Spark, and other strategic real-estate investors.

CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure.

Scale acquired Berlin-based SiaSearch and folded its petabyte-scale sensor-data search technology and team into Scale Nucleus.

Gamma announced a $7 million seed round led by Accel.

Notion raised $275 million led by Coatue Management and Sequoia Capital.

Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating.

Shield AI acquired Martin UAV, bringing the V-BAT vertical-takeoff aircraft into its portfolio.

Anthropic raised $124 million to pursue computationally intensive research into reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

SambaNova Systems raised $676 million in a Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing its valuation above $5 billion.

Scale raised $325 million in Series E funding co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Tiger Global at a reported $7.3 billion valuation.

Microsoft agrees to acquire Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion including net debt, expanding its healthcare and conversational-AI capabilities.

Baidu's Class A ordinary shares began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 9888.

Hugging Face raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Addition to grow its open-source machine-learning ecosystem and hosted platform.

Replit announced a $20 million Series A led by A.Capital.

Databricks raised $1 billion led by Franklin Templeton at a $28 billion post-money valuation.

Clay raised a previously unannounced $13.5 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital.

Scale acquired real-time video-understanding startup Helia AI and brought its team and infrastructure expertise into the Nucleus platform.

Scale raised $155 million in a Series D led by Tiger Global at a post-money valuation above $3.5 billion.

Palantir began trading on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct listing, marking its transition to a public company.

EliseAI raised a $6.5 million Series A led by Navitas Capital.

Databricks acquired open-source visualization company Redash to expand SQL analytics and collaboration.

Notion raised $50 million in new funding during the expansion of its collaborative workspace.

Hugging Face raised $15 million in a Series A led by Lux Capital to expand its open-source natural-language-processing platform.

Databricks raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.2 billion valuation.

Facebook agreed to acquire CTRL-labs, bringing neural-interface research into Reality Labs.

Scale raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund at a valuation above $1 billion.

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI and becomes its exclusive cloud partner for new Azure AI supercomputing technologies.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership.

IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat to anchor an open hybrid-cloud platform for enterprise software and AI.

EliseAI raised approximately $1.9 million in seed funding.

Databricks raised $250 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $2.75 billion.

Clay raised a previously unannounced $2.5 million seed round led by First Round Capital.

Notion raised approximately $18.7 million in a financing round.

Scale raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures with participation from Accel, Y Combinator, and other investors.

Microsoft agrees to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock, bringing the developer platform that later launched GitHub Copilot into Microsoft.

Hugging Face raised a $4 million seed round backed by investors including A.Capital, Betaworks, SV Angel, and Thirty Five Ventures.

Microsoft acquires conversational-AI startup Semantic Machines to advance more natural, context-aware dialogue systems.

Databricks raised $140 million in a Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Scale raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel to expand its labeled-data infrastructure.

Hugging Face raised approximately $1.2 million in early angel funding to develop its conversational AI startup.

Databricks raised a $60 million Series C led by New Enterprise Associates.

Amazon agreed to acquire chip-design company Annapurna Labs, strengthening its ability to build custom silicon for AWS.

Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities.

Databricks raised $33 million to expand its cloud platform for large-scale data processing.

Google agrees to acquire London-based artificial-intelligence company DeepMind Technologies, bringing its research team into Google.

Andreessen Horowitz led Databricks' first institutional financing to commercialize Apache Spark.