Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate
CNBCSamantha Subin
Context & Ripple Effects
Databricks’ late-2025 financing was already priced at $134B after earlier valuation steps, and its February round added $5B of equity plus $2B of debt while annualized revenue passed $5.4B. The latest round pairs a further valuation reset with a higher reported revenue run rate.
The company is also broadening beyond its core data platform through February’s equity-and-debt financing and an agreed Panther Labs acquisition, its third cybersecurity deal. That makes fresh private capital relevant to both operating scale and product expansion.
First-order effects
Databricks receives $5B of new equity capital, while its investors reset the company’s private-market valuation from $134B six months ago to $190B.
The reported move above a $7B revenue run rate gives Databricks a larger commercial-scale benchmark against which investors will assess the new valuation.
Second-order effects
The new financing expands Databricks’ capacity to integrate Panther Labs and pursue its stated cybersecurity acquisition strategy without relying solely on operating cash generation.
Because Databricks says greater AI-agent use raises costs and reduces margins, the higher valuation raises the importance of turning run-rate growth into durable economics as it scales agent workloads.
Third-order effects
If this pattern holds, private capital for AI data infrastructure will concentrate around companies that can show both multibillion-dollar revenue scale and the balance sheet to absorb agent-era compute costs.
Databricks’ successive valuation steps point toward private-market financing becoming a continuing strategic resource for mature AI infrastructure companies, rather than a bridge to a near-term public listing.
The trend: AI infrastructure financing is concentrating in revenue-scale private platforms that can fund expansion while managing the compute-cost pressure of AI agents.
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Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2. We also shared: 🚀 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase 🚀 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year 🚀 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow
It's a big day at Databricks. — Today we closed $5B in new strategic funding at a $190B valuation, and announced that we surpassed $7B in revenue run-rate. …
Today, Databricks shared strong momentum across their business, including crossing $7B in revenue run-rate and achieving >80% year-over-year growth in Q2. …