BlackRock portfolio: 9 rounds in AI and data
Rounds where BlackRock led or took part, newest first. Led: 1.
- Mistral AI raises $3.6B Series D, . AI models. Led by Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity. French AI lab that builds open and commercial large language models.
- SambaNova raises $1B Series F, . AI infrastructure. Led by General Atlantic. Designs AI chips and systems for training and inference and runs an inference cloud.
- Anthropic raises $30B Series G, . AI models. Led by GIC, Coatue, D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGX. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- Databricks raises $4B Growth, . Data infrastructure. Led by Insight Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Databricks runs a cloud data and AI platform built around the lakehouse for analytics, data engineering and AI apps.
- Vercel raises $300M Series F, . Developer tools. Led by Accel, GIC. Vercel runs a cloud platform for deploying and hosting web apps and AI features, and makes the Next.js framework and v0.
- Groq raises $750M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Disruptive. Groq designs LPU inference chips and runs the GroqCloud service for fast AI model inference.
- Anthropic raises $13B Series F, . AI models. Led by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Builds the Claude family of AI models with a focus on AI safety research.
- Applied Intuition raises $600M Series F, . AI infrastructure. Led by BlackRock, Kleiner Perkins. Applied Intuition makes simulation, autonomy and vehicle software for automakers, trucking, defense and other machine makers.
- xAI raises $6B Series C, . AI models. Develops the Grok AI models and assistant and runs large GPU training clusters.