The current share placement is attractively priced relative to the valuations of the companies as outlined below:
The top three most valuable private companies in the AI sector globally are: AI cloud data company Databricks, valued at $43 billion in its 2023 funding, an increase of $5 billion from its value in 2021; autonomous driving start-up Cruise, last valued at $30 billion; and generative AI firm OpenAI, with a $29 billion valuation.
Companies listed with multiple value rounds in Crunchbase.
| Name | Disclosed value in 2023 |
% increase from last round |
Months from last round |
|---|---|---|---|
| Databricks | $42.3B | 14% | 24 |
| OpenAI | $29.0B | 2800% | 42 |
| VAST Data | $9.0B | 143% | 31 |
| CoreWeave | $7.0B | 189% | 6 |
| Hugging Face | $4.5B | 125% | 15 |
| Anthropic | $4.0B | >100% | 12 |
| Infection AI | $4.0B | >200% | 13 |
| Skydio | $2.2B | 120% | 23 |
| Mistral AI | $2.0B | 672% | 5 |
| Helsing | $1.8B | 292% | 22 |
| Quantexa | $1.8B | 100% | 20 |
Source: Meet The New AI Unicorn Of 2023