🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-29
Chalk AI scored a Series A just 18 months post-seed, aiming to innovate beyond Snowflake and Databricks!
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🤖 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was the recent Series A raised by Chalk AI. Who? These folks:
Techmeme: Chalk, which lets enterprises input proprietary data into AI and ML models quickly for inference, raised a $50M Series A led by Felicis at a $500M valuation (Anna Tong/Reuters)
By Anna Tong / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
Chalk AI is interesting because of the origin story and founding team background but also because while some companies are building on top of Snowflake, Databricks, etc. it is companies like Chalk AI looking to be the companies that come after Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
In fact, it is just 18 months since Chalk AI got Seed funding.
Announcing our $10M seed to accelerate machine learning
We’re proud to announce we’ve raised $10 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund to build the data platform for machine learning and generative AI.
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