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🚀 The Top 5 Biggest Tech Funding Rounds of 2024 🚀 2024 has witnessed substantial investments across the AI, Cyber Security, Data and Cloud Computing tech landscape, and some of these massive investments highlight the tech industry's focus for 2025: Here are the top 5 biggest funding rounds of 2024: 1️⃣ xAI – $5 Billion (Series B) Founded by Elon Musk, xAI is advancing generative artificial intelligence, aiming to develop AI systems that benefit humanity. This substantial funding round, led by investors including the Qatar Investment Authority, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sequoia Capital, values the company at $50 billion. 2️⃣ Databricks – $9.5 Billion (Series I) Databricks specializes in data analytics and AI solutions, providing a cloud-based platform for building and managing data and AI applications. This record-setting funding round, led by Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, and GIC, values the company at over $60 billion. 3️⃣ Safe Superintelligence – $1 Billion (Series A) Safe Superintelligence focuses on developing AI systems with an emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. This significant Series A funding round underscores the growing importance of responsible AI development. 4️⃣ CoreWeave – $2 Billion (Series B) CoreWeave offers cloud computing services optimized for AI workloads, providing high-performance computing resources to AI app developers. This funding round, with participation from Nvidia and private equity firms, has significantly increased the company's valuation, positioning it as a notable competitor in the cloud market. 5️⃣ Liquid AI – $250 Million (Series A) Liquid AI specialises in generative artificial intelligence, aiming to enhance its Liquid Foundation Models for enterprise use. This early-stage funding round, led by AMD, will support the optimisation of their AI models using advanced hardware capabilities. What are your thoughts on these HUGE investments in the tech landscape?

Pivotal Partners are partnering exclusively with a $500m backed AI/ML vendor who are looking to build out their founding US GTM function. In the last 3 years, they have grown from $10m> to $100m< in revenue despite having less than 100 employees. We are now searching for Mid-Market/Commercial AE's with a strong track record (2+ years of closing experience) of over achievement vs quota selling to technical decision makers. This is a genuine opportunity to be one of the founding US sellers positioning "must have" AI/ML technology in the fastest growing area of software globally. Reach out James Cato for more information.

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After 3.5 years at Lacework/Fortinet, a place where I grew personally and in my career more than I have at any other company, I've decided to make a move to do something new! 🎉🎉🎉 Last week, I started as Director of Technical Account Management at LaunchDarkly! Thanks to the amazing leadership team over there who I spoke with throughout the process (Gigi Neuenfeldt, Christy Pasion, Devin Williams, Jenn Wei, Randy Gullett, Jillian Smith and Marcus Holm). Many thanks to James Whipp as well who guided me through the whole thing. Looking back: I started at Lacework as the first Solution Architect and was responsible for helping build the Professional Services function from scratch and ended up overseeing the department in the Americas (and globally for some time). I learned an incredible amount about cloud security, like what good and bad cloud security looks like, and I worked with the most amazing and talented people I've ever had the pleasure of being coworkers with while I was there. It's an experience that I will never forget and one that taught me lessons that will stick with me for life. I'm so thankful to everyone who helped me along the way, like Daniel Martushev, Galen Emery, CISSP, Gregory Sloan, Eric Six, JJ Weiland, Chris Gilbert, Daniel Reed, Adam Larson, Tim Chase, Raf Chiodo, Kevin K., Andrew Casey, Barbara Dawson, Michael Moore, Ryan Ahlers, Ashley DeJesus, Victor Madarang, Derek Halliwell, Julia Weimer, Angelo R, Steve Tilden, Jeff Vogt, Ross Paterson, Joshua Bonner, Michael Derrer, Andrew Lee, James B., Yashesh S., Stephen Lang, Adam Benesh, Vlad Kucher and so many more (I could probably make an entire post of mentions/tags). If I didn't name you, I'm sorry, but you know I appreciate you (also, I hit the mention limit 😆)! Ever since my first experience in Customer Success at a video conferencing-based startup called Highfive, where I started as a CSM and ended up overseeing the function, I've had a desire to run a Technical Success team. The concept of Technical Success blends together everything I love about helping people, solving problems, and remaining centered around amazing technology. I'm thrilled now to apply everything I've learned and developed around the best ways to drive success, with a technical focus, for our customers at LaunchDarkly! Lastly, my team is growing! I'm looking for someone who lives for the thrill of delighting customers, is eager to tackle technical challenges, and is/wants to be a technical master when it comes to feature management and software release excellence. I'll post more on this soon, but for now, you can see the job description here: https://lnkd.in/gCkbWtwZ Send me a message if you or someone you know is interested!

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