#AI Funding
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2026-08-16-Sun
Investment & Financing Weekly (3rd Week of August): Databricks Raises $5 Billion, Valuation Climbs to $190 Billion—This Round Buys Not the Model, but the Entire Physical Infrastructure to Run It
Revenue up 46%, valuation up 42%, multiples unchanged. The way Databricks is priced now is no different from sizing up a listed software giant.
2026-08-02-Sun
Investment & Financing Weekly (First Week of August): Capital is flowing from the middle application layer to both ends — frontier labs with zero products and decade-long energy assets; SSI receives $5 billion strategic investment from Nvidia
Nvidia is not buying SSI's future revenue—it's buying the ticket to be present when superintelligence truly arrives.