{"id":956219,"date":"2025-08-20T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956219"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:16:59","slug":"databricks-eyes-over-100-billion-valuation-as-investors-back-ai-growth-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/databricks-eyes-over-100-billion-valuation-as-investors-back-ai-growth-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Databricks eyes over $100 billion valuation as investors back AI growth plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analytics firm Databricks said on Tuesday its valuation was set to jump 61% to more than $100 billion in a funding round less than a year after its last, underscoring strong investor demand for artificial intelligence startups. <\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco, California-based company &#8211; with 15,000 customers, including payments firm Block, energy giant Shell and electric-vehicle maker Rivian &#8211; said it has signed a term sheet for a Series K round, but did not disclose the amount it was raising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analytics firm Databricks said on Tuesday its valuation was set to jump 61% to more than $100 billion in a funding round less than a year after its last, underscoring strong investor demand for artificial intelligence startups. The San Francisco, California-based company &#8211; with 15,000 customers, including payments firm Block, energy giant Shell and electric-vehicle maker Rivian &#8211; said it has signed a term sheet for a Series K round, but did not disclose the amount it was raising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}