Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

EXPLAINED: Databricks - The Real Truth

SkyPilot, from Databricks' cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

Backed by Lux Capital, SkyPilot helps customers use GPUs wherever they're available.

Fortune

Databricks secures funding round at $188 billion valuation

Databricks said on Thursday it has signed a term sheet for a strategic funding round that values the data analytics software firm at $188 billion.

The Economic Times

‘Thriving digital ecosystem and AI adoption bringing MNCs here’: Databricks cofounder

Databricks is significantly boosting its presence in India, recognising it as a key market for growth and revenue. This expansion is fueled by India's vibrant digital sector, increasing enterprise AI adoption, and global firms leveraging the nation's talent for development.

The Economic Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Companies need flexibility, choice as AI becomes a geopolitical issue

India is one of the fastest growing markets for Databricks, and last year the firm announced a $250 million investment in India to ramp up research and development capabilities and expand the India market.

The Economic Times

Docebo Sees Enterprise Demand Rebound as AI and Skills Tools Fuel Growth

Docebo (NASDAQ:DCBO) is seeing improved enterprise demand after addressing product and go-to-market gaps that weighed on its business in 2025, Brandon Farber of Docebo said during a Needham fireside chat hosted by analyst Ryan MacDonald. Farber described Docebo as a learning management system provi

MarketBeat

Want to Buy OpenAI Stock? Invest in This 1 Robinhood ETF

The Robinhood Ventures Fund (RVI) now offers long exposure to OpenAI.

Barchart

The SpaceX IPO is great — but it won't deliver 100x returns

The threshold for going public in the U.S. has changed dramatically. Decades ago, firms routinely listed at valuations of a few hundred million dollars.

Fortune

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Robinhood wants everyone to be able to invest in hot startups like Databricks and Ramp, but how much risk will investors take on?

How Vlad Tenev plans to open up private markets to the masses.

Fortune

Snowflake’s $200M Bet: Can The OpenAI Deal Fix the Slump?

Snowflake integrates OpenAI models into its platform to drive growth in consumption and cement its status as the foundational layer for enterprise data.

MarketBeat

Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was 'gonna invent a career'—he founded Reddit

Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.

Fortune

The year of the ‘hectocorn’: the $100bn tech companies that could float in 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Stripe are rumoured to be among ten of the biggest companies considering IPOs

The Guardian - UK

Morningstar’s New Generative AI Index Could Unlock Opportunities in OpenAI and Anthropic for Everyday ETF Investors

What I’m watching now after Morningstar debuted its PitchBook GenAI 20 Index on Jan. 15.

Barchart

2025 U.S. VC deal value soared to $339.4 billion, says PitchBook. But there’s a catch.

2025 U.S. VC deal value soared to $339.4 billion, not far from 2021 highs of $358.2 billion, PitchBook data shows. But most of that money is going to a handful of deals.

Fortune

Want to get AI agents to work better? Improve how they retrieve data, Databricks says

Databricks is debuting a new system for retrieving the data that AI agents need to perform tasks accurately.

Fortune

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

After Nvidia’s Groq deal, meet the other AI chip startups that may be in play—and one looking to disrupt them all

Nvidia’s $20 billion Groq deal signals that AI inference—not training—will be the big focus going forward, lifting a crop of chip and software startups while reigniting debate over how long Nvidia's dominance can last.

Fortune

CEO of a $134 billion software giant blasts companies with billions in funding but zero revenue: 'That's clearly a bubble, right… it's, like, insane'

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says he's hearing from venture capitalists "maybe I should just go on a break for, like, six months" to let the bubble simmer.

Fortune

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on where AI is most bubbly and how the company settled on its $134 billion valuation

On Tuesday, Databricks announced it had raised more than $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation for its Series L.

Fortune

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says his company will be worth $1 trillion by doing these three things

Databricks CEO says AI-powered coding, enterprise agents, and rapid app development could propel it into the trillion-dollar club.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco starts today, with Databricks, OpenAI, Cursor, and more on deck

Today, Fortune Brainstorm AI starts, and so many key players in AI will be with us live in San Francisco.

Benzinga

Databricks In Talks To Raise $5 Billion At A Massive $134 Billion Valuation Amid Explosive Sales Growth

Databricks is turning heads amid reports of a major new funding round following strong sales growth over the course of this year.

Kiplinger

Investment Expert: Is Your Retirement Portfolio Too Late to the Profit Party?

If you're following the usual retirement investment model, you could be missing out on a potential profit period that companies see in the run-up to their IPOs.

Fortune

5 stocks to buy—and 5 to avoid—if 2026 brings a downturn

Plus the outlook for Bitcoin, gold, and the IPO market in the year ahead.

Benzinga

Nancy Pelosi's Portfolio Keeps Winning—Her Databricks Stake Is Up 302%

Private data analytics firm Databricks could be worth $130 billion in a new funding round. The new valuation would provide a boost to early investors ahead of a potential IPO, including NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Cathie Wood's Ark Invest and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

International Business Times

Ex-Googlers Convert Databricks into an Agentic Lakehouse

Espresso AI, an innovative platform leveraging large language models (LLMs) to optimize data warehouses, has announced the launch of a groundbreaking solution designed to transform Databricks into an agentic lakehouse.

Barchart

Snowflake Is Partnering with Palantir. Does That Make SNOW Stock a Buy Now?

Snowflake announces a strategic partnership with Palantir. Here’s why the agreement warrants owning SNOW stock.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.