“Databricks raised $3B from Coatue at a $188B valuation”
“Rather than immediately launching a second company after selling Deephi (深鉴科技), Yao spent three years systematically mapping every adjacent frontier — laser lidar, brain-computer interfaces, controllable fusion, quantum computing, commercial rockets — by joining Coatue (经纬) as a venture partner.”
Source→“Data and AI platform; still private; ~$188B valuation (Coatue-led round, July 2026); ~$5.4B ARR, 65%+ growth; positive FCF”
AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.