Databricks has raised 1.6 billion dollars in a single funding round, led by Counterpoint Global, the Morgan Stanley fund, at a valuation of 38…
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
On September 16, 2020, Snowflake goes public, and it does so in spectacular fashion. The stock was priced at 120 dollars per share ahead…
VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
Snowflake has raised 479 million dollars at a valuation of 12.4 billion dollars, in what looks likely to be its final private funding round…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
Snowflake has stopped being a promising stealth startup and become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. It has raised a large…
Quantum startups begin appearing in France in the mid-to-late 2010s as research translates into early commercial efforts in computing and communication.
France strengthens its AI position through sustained research output, startup activity, and corporate programs that align in the mid-2010s.
Forty-five billion dollars. A five-year-old company that openly sells its phones at close to cost is now the most valuable private startup on the…
After two years of near-total silence, Snowflake has come out of stealth and revealed what its three Oracle-veteran founders have been quietly building. It…
Every big company has an origin story that sounds inevitable later and is anything but at the time. Databricks starts here, when seven academics…