Cursor’s last widely cited valuation is $60 billion all-stock — press-reported (CNBC June; The Verge on close day), not in Cursor’s August 14, 2026 close post. That post does confirm SpaceX acquired the company.
Vals AI announced a $40M Series A at $400M on August 13, 2026, led by a16z, with 8VC, Pear VC, and BloombergBeta returning. The product is independent benchmarks for real work — not another model lab.
Databricks’s current valuation is $190 billion as of the August 13, 2026 $5B close (Coatue). July’s $188B figure was a term sheet with no disclosed raise size. Snowflake is public — do not freeze a market cap next to this private mark.
Gap-fill investment news for Aug 12–13: Form Energy, Lovable, Thrive Holdings, CodeRabbit, Blacksmith, and Skan AI — who uses the products and why these funds fit.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raised $2B at $12B from SoftBank, D1, and Altimeter — a PE-style AI deployment platform spun from Thrive Capital, not another chatbot startup.
Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital co-led Skan AI’s $63M Series C — Citi and State Farm Ventures joined as customers-turned-investors — to map how work actually runs before agents automate it.
