As some high-valued tech startups look to the long-dormant IPO market for their next funding round, Databricks is still finding investors that are happy to keep the company private, at least for now.
Databricks, which sells data analytics software, said Thursday that it raised more than $500 million in fresh capital at a $43 billion valuation.
Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Databricks last announced funding during the boom market of 2021, at a $38 billion valuation. Since then, cloud software stocks have plummeted, with rival Snowflake losing 45% of its value. However, unlike fellow software IPO candidates Canva and Stripe, Databricks has managed to maintain its share price.
In the latest round, shares were sold at $73.50 a piece, roughly equal to where they were priced in 2021. The $5 billion increase in valuation is the result of new shares that CEO Ali Ghodsi said have gone to the 3,500 employees the company has hired in the past two years, as well as to investors. Headcount now sits at around 6,000.
While high interest rates and economic concerns continue to weigh on the tech market, particularly on companies that are burning cash, Databricks is capitalizing on a surge of momentum in artificial intelligence. In July, Databricks acquired MosaicML, a startup with software for efficiently running large language models that can spit out natural-sounding text, for $1.3 billion.
Nvidia is a new investor in Databricks, a notable addition as the chipmaker has been pouring cash into a host of AI infrastructure startups. Hugging Face, Cohere and CoreWeave are a few of the companies that Nvidia has backed at multibillion-dollar valuations.
Ghodsi said that he started talking to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “a while back,” and that a strategic tie-up has become more important with both companies going deeper into AI. Databricks spends a lot of money on Nvidia’s graphics processing units, largely through various public clouds, and even more now that his company owns Mosaic. He added that Nvidia and Mosaic had been in talks about a partnership before the acquisition.
“It made sense to partner more closely,” Ghodsi said. “At the core, we’re in complementary markets.”
Equally notable is the participation of Capital One’s venture arm as an investor for the first time. That’s because the bank is Snowflake’s largest customer. Snowflake finance chief Mike Scarpelli said at an investor event in August 2022 that Capital One was spending almost $50 million annually with Snowflake, and in November he said that the firm is its top customer and that it’s “taken them 5.3 years to get where we are now.”
Capital One is also a Databricks customer and uses the technology partly for fraud detection, according to a 2021 blog post.
Existing investor T. Rowe Price led Databricks’ latest round, and was joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global and Tiger Global, among others.
Ghodsi said that when the company started talking to investors about a potential financing round a couple of months ago, his “original guidance was no more than $100 million.” That number ultimately swelled fivefold as more investors wanted to join, he said.
As for a potential initial public offering, Ghodsi said that’s still on the road map, and that this funding doesn’t change the company’s plans. He didn’t say when an IPO might happen.
Databricks will get to see how much demand there is for new tech opportunities in the coming weeks. Chip designer Arm is returning to the public market on Thursday after getting taken private in 2016. Grocery delivery company Instacart and software vendor Klaviyo filed their prospectuses last month. There hasn’t been a notable venture-backed tech IPO in the U.S. since late 2021.
Many enterprise software makers have been trying to limit spending while growth rates slow because the uncertain economy has led big customers to reduce their purchasing. Databricks has stayed in growth mode and hasn’t announced any layoffs.
Ghodsi said much of the cost cutting he’s pursued was in his company’s use of technology, particularly software subscriptions.
“We spent $30 million on 300 pieces of SaaS software,” Ghodsi said, referring to software as a service. “I said, ‘Let’s halve that.'”
In the quarter that ended in July, Databricks said it reached a $1.5 billion annual revenue run rate, with sales growing 50% year over year. Snowflake, whose shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2020, reported 36% growth in the latest quarter to $674 million in revenue.
With Opendoor shares up almost fivefold since the beginning of July and trading volumes hitting record levels, CEO Carrie Wheeler thanked investors for their “enthusiasm” on Tuesday’s earnings call.
“I want to acknowledge the great deal of interest in Opendoor lately and that we’re grateful for it,” Wheeler said, even as the stock sank more than 20% after hours. “We appreciate your enthusiasm for what we’re building, and we’re listening intently to your feedback.”
Prior to its recent surge, Opendoor’s stock had been mostly abandoned, falling as low as 51 cents in late June. The situation was so dire that the company was considering a reverse split that could lift the price of each share by as much 50 times as a potential way to keep its Nasdaq listing. Opendoor said last week that it’s back in compliance and canceled the reverse split proposal.
Opendoor’s business is centered around using technology to buy and sell homes, pocketing the gains. The company was founded in 2014 and went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) during the Covid-era boom of late 2020. But when interest rates began climbing in 2022, higher borrowing costs reduced demand for homes.
Revenue sank by about two-thirds from $15.6 billion in 2022 to $5.2 billion last year.
Much of the stock’s bounce in the past six weeks was spurred by hedge fund manager Eric Jackson, who announced in July that his firm had taken a position in Opendoor. Jackson said he believes Opendoor’s stock could eventually get to $82. It closed on Tuesday at $2.52, before dropping below $2 in extended trading.
Jackson’s bet is that a return to revenue growth and increased market share will lead to profitability, and that investors will start ascribing a reasonable sales multiple to the business.
The turnaround isn’t yet showing much evidence of working. For the second quarter, Opendoor reported a revenue increase of about 4% to $1.57 billion. Its net loss narrowed to $29 million, or 4 cents a share, from $92 million, or 13 cents, a year earlier.
In the current quarter, Opendoor is projecting just $800 million to $875 million in revenue, which would represent a decline of at least 36% from a year earlier. Opendoor said it expects to acquire just 1,200 homes in the the third quarter, down from 1,757 in the second quarter and 3,504 in the third quarter of 2024. It’s also pulling down marketing spending.
“The housing market has further deteriorated over the course of the last quarter,” finance chief Selim Freiha said on Tuesday’s earnings call. “Persistently high mortgage rates continue to suppress buyer demand, leading to lower clearance and record new listings.”
Wheeler highlighted Opendoor’s effort to expand its business beyond so-called iBuying and into more of a referrals business that’s less capital intensive. She called it “the most important strategic shift in our history.”
Investors, who have been bidding up the stock in waves, were less than enthused with what they heard. But at least there are finally people listening.
“This increased visibility is an opportunity to tell our story to a broader audience,” Wheeler said. “We intend to make the most of it.”
Super Micro Computer shares slid 15% in extended trading on Tuesday after the server maker reported disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter results and issued weak quarterly earnings guidance.
Here’s how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus:
Earnings per share: 41 cents adjusted vs. 44 cents expected
Revenue: $5.76 billion vs. $5.89 billion expected
Super Micro’s revenue increased 7.5% during the quarter, which ended on June 30, according to a statement.
For the current quarter, Super Micro called for 40 cents to 52 cents in adjusted earnings per share on $6 billion to $7 billion in revenue for the fiscal first quarter. Analysts surveyed by LSEG were looking for 59 cents per share and $6.6 billion in revenue.
For the 2026 fiscal year, Super Micro sees at least $33 billion in revenue, above the LSEG consensus of $29.94 billion.
Super Micro saw surging demand starting in 2023 for its data center servers packed with Nvidia for handling artificial intelligence models and workloads. Growth has since slowed.
The company avoided being delisted from the Nasdaq after falling behind on quarterly financial filings and seeing the departure of its auditor.
As of Tuesday’s close, Super Micro shares were up around 88% so far in 2025, while the S&P 500 index has gained 7%.
Executives will discuss the results on a conference call starting at 5 p.m. ET.
Hinge Health co-founders, Gabriel Mecklenburg and Daniel Perez celebrate its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on May 22, 2025.
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Shares of Hinge Health popped 6% in extended trading on Tuesday after the digital physical therapy company reported quarterly results for the first time since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in May.
Here’s how the company did based on average analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG:
Loss: Loss per share of $13.10. That may not compare with the 9 cents per share earnings expected
Revenue: $139 million vs. $125 million expected
Revenue at Hinge increased 55% in the second quarter from $89.8 million during the same period last year, according to a release.
Hinge reported a net loss of $575.65 million, or $13.10 per share, compared to a loss of $12.93 million, a loss of 96 cents per share, during the same period a year earlier. The company said its GAAP loss from operations was $580.7 million, which included $591.0 million from stock-based compensation expenses.
“We’re still introducing ourselves to the world,” Hinge CEO Daniel Perez told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday. “The most important thing I’d hope for people to take away is the long-term potential of using software and connected hardware to automate care delivery itself.”
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Hinge, founded in 2014, uses software to help patients treat acute musculoskeletal injuries, chronic pain and carry out post-surgery rehabilitation remotely.
It finished the second quarter with 2,359 clients, up 39% from 1,785 clients during the same period last year.
Hinge said it expects to report revenue between $141 million and $143 million during its third quarter. LSEG analysts were expecting $129 million. For the full year, the company said it expects revenue of $548 million to $552 million, which also beat the $511 million expected by LSEG analysts.
The stock opened at $39.25 in May, rising 23% from its $32 IPO price. Shares of Hinge closed at $48.22 on Tuesday.
“We believe we’re fundamentally reshaping how care can be delivered more effectively and efficiently,” Perez said during the company’s quarterly call with investors.