DataRobot, a US-headquartered artificial intelligence (AI) software provider backed by corporates Intel, Recruit, Snowflake, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Salesforce, has received $250m of funding, Axios reported on Tuesday.
The round was co-led by investment firm Altimeter Capital Management and hedge fund manager Tiger Global Management, and the capital was raised at a pre-money valuation of about $6bn according to Axios.
Investment managers T Rowe Price and BlackRock, private equity firm Silver Lake and venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) are also listed as DataRobot investors in the report, though it is unclear if they took part in the latest funding round.
Founded in 2012, DataRobot operates a software platform which enables enterprises to build, test and deploy AI models on any cloud platform.
Enterprise technology producer Hewlett Packard Enterprise, data analysis software provider Snowflake and Salesforce Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of enterprise software provider Salesforce, invested $50m in DataRobot in December 2020 as part of a $320m series F round valuing it at $2.8bn post-money.
Altimeter Capital led the $270m first tranche the month before with backing from T Rowe Price, Tiger Global, Silver Lake, B Capital Group, Glynn Capital, ClearBridge, NEA, Sapphire Ventures and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
DataRobot secured $206m in a series E round in September 2019 led by Sapphire Ventures that included Intel Capital, the corporate VC unit for semiconductor technology producer Intel, as well as Tiger Global, NEA, World Innovation Lab, Alliance Bernstein PCI, DFJ Growth, Geodesic Capital, Sands Capital, Meritech Capital and EDBI.
The company raised just over $167m across its 2017 series C and 2018 series D rounds, from investors including Meritech Capital, Sapphire Ventures, DFJ Growth, NEA and IA Ventures.
NEA led DataRobot’s $33m series B round, in 2016, which was backed by Intel Capital, insurance firm New York Life and Recruit Strategic Partners, the corporate venturing arm of human resources firm Recruit, as well as IA Ventures and Accomplice.
DataRobot collected $21m in a 2014 series A round that was also led by NEA and which featured New York Life, IA Ventures and Atlas Venture, the last of which had provided $3.3m of seed funding for the company the year before.