TNB Tech Minute: Databricks Raising Funds at $134 Billion Valuation
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | December 16th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. We are exclusively reporting |
| 0:40.1 | that Databricks has announced a massive series L funding round of over $4 billion, boosting its |
| 0:47.1 | valuation to $134 billion. That's a 34% increase from the data analytics and AI software company's last funding round. |
| 0:56.8 | Databricks said it crossed $4.8 billion in annual revenue run rate at the end of October, |
| 1:02.3 | up from the $4 billion and announced a few months ago. |
| 1:05.6 | Data Briggs has been on an initial public offering watch list for years, |
| 1:09.2 | but its CEO said he hasn't decided exactly |
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