Databricks Closes $1 Billion Series K

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2791772473&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;Databricks" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Databricks<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; the Data and AI company&comma; announced it has crossed a <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;4 billion<&sol;span> revenue run-rate during Q2&comma; growing &gt&semi;50&percnt; year over year&period; Databricks said its AI products also recently crossed a <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;1 billion<&sol;span> revenue run-rate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company has raised &dollar;1 billion in new capital in a Series K funding round&period; This investment values the company at over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;100 billion<&sol;span> and is co-led by Andreessen Horowitz&comma; Insight Partners&comma; MGX&comma; Thrive Capital&comma; and WCM Investment Management&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b><&sol;b>This new investment comes on the heels of strong momentum for Databricks&comma; which includes&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul >&NewLine;<li>Surpassing <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;4 billion<&sol;span> revenue run-rate&comma; growing &gt&semi;50&percnt; year over year&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Recently exceeding <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;1 billion<&sol;span> revenue run-rate for its AI products&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Net retention rate sustaining &gt&semi;140&percnt;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>650&plus; customers consuming at over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;1 million<&sol;span> annual revenue run-rate&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Achieving positive free cash flow over the last 12 months&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><b>Series K Investment<br class&equals;"dnr" &sol;><&sol;b>Databricks will use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks&comma; launching the new Lakebase category&comma; and fueling global growth&period; At the June Data &plus; AI Summit&comma; Databricks introduced a new product&comma; Agent Bricks&comma; which builds high-quality&comma; production AI agents optimized on your enterprise data&comma; and Lakebase&comma; a new category of operational databases &lpar;OLTP&rpar; built on open source Postgres&comma; and optimized for AI agents&period; The investment will also support future AI acquisitions and deepen AI research&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Our teams are putting up these results by building the data and AI infrastructure enterprises will rely on for decades&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Ali Ghodsi<&sol;span>&comma; Co-Founder and CEO of Databricks&period; &&num;8220&semi;With this new capital&comma; we can move even faster with Agent Bricks&comma; helping customers in every industry turn their data into production AI agents&comma; and carry more momentum as we create the new Lakebase category&comma; reinventing databases for AI agents&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b><&sol;b>Databricks&&num;8217&semi; new capital comes amid increasing growth and expansion&period; During the two prior quarters&comma; Databricks launched or expanded partnerships with <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2571404839&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-and-microsoft-extend-strategic-partnership-azure&amp&semi;a&equals;Microsoft" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Microsoft<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;3229499815&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-announces-strategic-ai-partnership-google-cloud-bring&amp&semi;a&equals;Google&plus;Cloud" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Google Cloud<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;3413504765&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-and-anthropic-sign-landmark-deal-bring-claude-models&amp&semi;a&equals;Anthropic" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Anthropic<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;1000912896&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-announces-launch-sap-databricks&amp&semi;a&equals;SAP" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">SAP<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; and <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;1890785752&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fpalantir-and-databricks-announce-strategic-product-partnership&amp&semi;a&equals;Palantir" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Palantir<&sol;a><&sol;u>&period; Additionally&comma; this year the company signed new office leases in <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;1571323850&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-deepens-san-francisco-investment-new-office-and-multi&amp&semi;a&equals;San&plus;Francisco" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener"><span class&equals;"xn-location">San Francisco<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;u> and <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4503467-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2430783076&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;databricks&period;com&percnt;2Fcompany&percnt;2Fnewsroom&percnt;2Fpress-releases&percnt;2Fdatabricks-accelerates-bay-area-growth-new-office-sunnyvale&amp&semi;a&equals;Sunnyvale" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener"><span class&equals;"xn-location">Sunnyvale<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;u> to attract top AI talent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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