Over the past few weeks, Prime Unicorn Index component Anthropic has made multiple significant moves, hiring former Airbnb and Fanatic executive Krishna Rao as CFO and Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, as Chief Product Officer. As previously reported, Anthropic has closed funding deals worth about $7.3 billion in the past year, and its recent deal with Amazon has brought the company’s valuation to $18.1 billion, as measured by the Prime Unicorn Index. Investors include Amazon, Google, Spark Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures, Ark Invest, and Sound Ventures.
In other news, Databricks is acquiring Tabular, a data optimization startup, for between $1 and $2 billion. This is the company’s second $1B+ acquisition in the past 12 months and follows recent news that Databricks passed $1.6 billion in revenue for the year ended January 31. This represents a growth rate of over 50% for the company that most recently raised $684.6 million at a $35B valuation, as calculated by the Prime Unicorn Index.