Releases

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.478 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.307 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.324 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.134 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2024, up 169% year-over-year, briefly surpassing Apple and Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company.

xAI closed a $6 billion Series C backed by major institutional and sovereign investors; regulatory reporting indicated an approximately $45 billion post-money valuation.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by IVP at a $9 billion valuation.

Perplexity acquired Carbon, a startup specializing in connecting AI systems to enterprise data sources; terms were not disclosed.

Databricks announced a Series J targeting $10 billion, with $8.6 billion completed at announcement, valuing the company at $62 billion.

Crusoe raised $600 million in a Series D led by Founders Fund to expand AI data centers and Crusoe Cloud.

Speak raised a $78 million Series C led by Accel, bringing total funding to $162 million.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $512.2 billion as of Nov 30, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

A $650 million secondary share transaction valued CoreWeave at approximately $23 billion ahead of its public offering.

Cursor acquired the Supermaven team and technology, later integrating its high-speed completion work into Cursor Tab.

Physical Intelligence raised $400 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital and Bond Capital.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.472 trillion as of Oct 27, 2024 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Decagon raised a $65 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $100 million.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $36.9 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $203.6 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.3 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.448 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.956 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.049 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.198 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Mercor raised a $30 million Series A led by Benchmark.

fal raised a $14 million Series A led by Kindred Ventures.

fal disclosed a $9 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz as part of $23 million in seed and Series A funding.

World Labs emerged from stealth after raising $230 million to develop spatial-intelligence world models.

Glean raised more than $260 million in Series E financing co-led by Altimeter and DST Global.

Chai Discovery raised approximately $30 million in seed funding led by Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and Dimension Capital.

SSI raised more than $1 billion in cash from investors including NFDG, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global and SV Angel.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $389.4 billion as of Aug 31, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Cursor raised $60 million in Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and other technology leaders at a reported $400 million valuation.

EliseAI raised a $75 million Series D led by Sapphire Ventures.

Hugging Face acquired XetHub to bring content-defined chunking, deduplication, and high-performance storage to large AI repositories.

Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.

Black Forest Labs announced a $31 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Harvey raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a GV-led Series C.

PSP Investments led a $500 million round with Cisco, Fujitsu, AMD Ventures, EDC, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures participating.

Fireworks AI raised a $52 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $77 million.

Skild AI raised a $300 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions.

Clay raised a $46 million Series B led by Meritech Capital.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Speak raised a $20 million Series B-3 led by Buckley Ventures, bringing total funding to $84 million.

Decagon raised a $30 million Series A led by Accel.

Decagon disclosed a $5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz as it emerged from stealth.

Hugging Face acquired Argilla, an open-source platform for human and synthetic data curation and model feedback.