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Dataiku has reached a new milestone! We've surpassed $350 million in ARR. Why the momentum? Enterprises need more than AI ambition. Dataiku unites human expertise and AI reasoning into one platform, making every model, workflow, and agent explainable, measurable, and trusted. That’s why 1 in 4 of the top companies in the world trust Dataiku for enterprise AI.* To accelerate this next phase of growth, we're also making a key addition to our leadership team. We're thrilled to welcome Mark Abramowitz as our new Chief Marketing Officer. Mark joins us from ServiceNow with previous leadership roles at Salesforce, bringing deep platform marketing experience as we continue to scale globally. More highlights of the year so far: • Named to the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 for the 7th consecutive year • Launched Agent Hub, helping enterprises operationalize AI agents with governance and control • Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science & ML Platforms for the fourth consecutive time • Expanded collaboration with NVIDIA, landed partner of the year with Snowflake, and opened our new Singapore HQ 🤝 Thank you to all our employees, customers, partners, and investors who have made this achievement possible and incredibly worthwhile! More on our momentum here → https://lnkd.in/eumgtQSp #EnterpriseAI #AgentHub #CMO * Based on the top 500 of the 2024 Forbes Global 2000 list (excluding China).

We’re thrilled to share that Pindrop® Pulse for Meetings has been recognized as one of TIME Best Inventions of 2025! https://lnkd.in/e2P_yc2K This is personally meaningful as I remember routinely picking up the TIME edition that features the best inventions when I am grocery shopping at the end of the year. Many of these inventions have redefined the world as we know it from ChatGPT to the James Webb telescope to mRNA vaccines. Seeing Pindrop Pulse among innovations as hallowed as these is both humbling and energizing. At Pindrop, we’re pushing the boundaries of voice and deeepfake detection technology to help organizations extract genuine insights and trust from every conversation. TIME’s recognition underscores the creativity, brilliance, and commitment of our team — people who are redefining what’s possible with voice and video. A huge congratulations to everyone at Pindrop who made this happen. This moment belongs to all of you! #TIMEBestInventions #Innovation #VoiceAI #DeepfakeDetection #PindropPulse

$500M ARR. 6,500+ customers. All of the world's top investment banks. The race isn’t just about AI; it’s about trusted, enterprise-ready AI that knows your industry and scales across the workflows that matter most. The demand for domain-specific AI insights is accelerating, and the organizations winning today are those unifying quantitative and qualitative intelligence in a single, trusted platform. See how AlphaSense agentic AI workflows are powering the next era of confident decision-making: https://lnkd.in/eUZzM5x6

🚨 Growth-stage investing isn’t all spreadsheets and revenue charts. James Luo of CapitalG joins us for VC Wednesdays, and shares why he puts just as much weight on conviction in the founder. 🚨 ✒️ What’s the No. 1 signal you look for to invest at the growth stage? A couple things don’t change no matter what stage. One, the size and scale of the opportunity. We want growing markets with secular tailwinds — multi-tens-of-billions market opportunities. The second is the team. We always look at why the founder is uniquely positioned to solve this problem, but also followership: Who are the people on your leadership team, and where are they coming from? It's an amazing signal if your exec team left their jobs and joined you because they trust you as a leader and want to be part of the journey. ✒️ What trend or sector are you the most excited about, and why? The macro trend obviously is AI. But people forget that AI starts with hardware. ChatGPT only works because GPUs, voltage regulators, network switches and power transformers are running in the background. We’re facing physical-world constraints now: power, networking, data center efficiency — and that’s why we’re spending more time on hardware and semiconductors. We just announced an investment in Empower Semiconductor, whose approach makes last millimeter power delivery super efficient by collapsing voltage regulation. Networking is also a huge bottleneck — GPU clusters have to talk to each other super fast for both AI training and inference. So we’ve also backed nEye.ai, which is doing optical circuit switching so GPUs can reconfigure on the fly like a big brain. ✒️ On the AI application side, how do you assess differentiation defensibility when so many use the same LLMs and are doing the same thing? People assume all models are interchangeable but we actually see differences. They are less fungible than you think. Think of it like Coke vs. Pepsi — users develop preferences. We look for content differentiation. For example, AlphaSense is tackling market research and has proprietary financial models, transcripts and expert research — you can’t just Google it. If you pair that with a strong LLM, the results are dramatically better. The other big layer is workflow. AI that integrates deeply into how people work — and saves them time or makes their job better — builds long-term moats. Look at Clay or Abridge. That’s what creates defensibility. ✒️ What is one investment that you regret passing on and why? We spent a lot of time with Island, the secure enterprise browser founded by Michael Fey. I've known him for many years and always thought the vision was super exciting — the idea that the browser should be the operating system for work. The mistake we made is the classic one VCs make: it just felt really expensive at the time. We thought, let's wait for more proof points before we get conviction at this price. We overcomplicated it. #VCWednesdays #vc #venturecapital #startups #TechonLinkedIn

🚨 We’re excited to welcome Max Christoff to Everlaw! Max is joining as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer. Before joining Everlaw, Max had a 14-year career leading engineering teams at Google. He led the Chrome Browser engineering team, bringing fundamental advances in consumer and enterprise productivity to billions of users. He also helped start Google Wallet in 2011 (Google Pay) and led the engineering team that made it possible to tap a phone to pay contactlessly in stores, ride the subway, or board a plane. Prior to Google, Christoff was CTO of Enterprise Infrastructure at Morgan Stanley and held a variety of software engineering and leadership roles during his 11-year tenure. Max will work closely with CEO and Founder AJ Shankar and all of the Everlawyers around the globe in helping reshape the legal industry. Welcome, Max!  👉 Read more > https://lnkd.in/gpjGGakq Max’s appointment comes as Everlaw embarks on an ambitious plan to expand its AI-powered platform – including a R&D hiring surge. #Ediscovery #LegalTech #CTO #Innovation

Lift off! We’re proud to announce that Grafana Labs has blasted past $400M ARR and 7,000 customers worldwide. We’ve also completed a secondary transaction led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan with Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, and existing investors. As our CEO Raj Dutt told Forbes: “The need to monitor system performance more closely will only increase as the tech industry continues to accelerate with AI. It’s more important than ever at this moment in time.” To our community — thank you for being part of this open observability mission with us. Read more from Richard Nieva at Forbes: https://lnkd.in/ef3q6PHS