Thrive Capital has a history of making significant investments in Silicon Valley startups, such as OpenAI, and raised $5 billion earlier this year for its largest ever venture capital funds. Databricks, founded in 2013, has been working to educate its clients, which include half of the Fortune 500, on the importance of data and the need to modernize their tech stack to effectively utilize this asset.
Key takeaways:
- Thrive Capital is reportedly in talks to invest $1 billion in Databricks, an analytics software maker, which would value the company around $55 billion.
- Thrive is expected to lead a share sale, allowing early investors and employees to sell stakes to new investors.
- Databricks was valued at $38 billion in a funding round in 2021 and $43 billion last year.
- Databricks provides companies with the ability to create their own generative AI models, which can be rolled out and monitored at scale.