{"id":184440,"date":"2025-08-01T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/vast-data-in-talks-with-alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-to-fund-round-at-up-to-30b-valuation-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:21:26","slug":"vast-data-in-talks-with-alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-to-fund-round-at-up-to-30b-valuation-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/vast-data-in-talks-with-alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-to-fund-round-at-up-to-30b-valuation-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Vast Data in talks with Alphabet&#8217;s CapitalG, Nvidia to fund round at up to $30B valuation | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI storage platform Vast Data is in talks with Alphabet\u2019s venture arm CapitalG and existing backer Nvidia to raise a fresh round that could value the startup at up to $30 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-talks-fund-vast-data-up-30-billion-valuation-sources-2025-08-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters reported<\/a>, citing two sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/10\/ai-storage-platform-vast-data-aimed-for-25b-valuation-in-new-round-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported last month<\/a> that Vast Data was working to raise funds at a $25 billion valuation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The round could close in the next few weeks, per Reuters, which would make New York-based Vast Data \u2014 last valued at $9.1 billion in 2023 \u2014 one of the most valuable tech companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vast Data develops storage technology that claims to enable efficiency in AI data centers. As the AI boom intensifies and the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/23\/trumps-ai-strategy-trades-guardrails-for-growth-in-race-against-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. government greenlights<\/a> the scaled build-out of data centers, AI infrastructure startups are becoming a hot new focus for investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The startup has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/06\/vast-data-lands-118m-to-grow-its-data-storage-platform-for-ai-workloads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised<\/a> $380 million to date, and its CEO Renen Hallak said the company is free cash flow positive. Sources told Reuters that Vast Data earned $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by January 2025, with projections to grow to $600 million in ARR next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/01\/vast-data-in-talks-with-alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-to-fund-round-at-up-to-30b-valuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI storage platform Vast Data is in talks with Alphabet\u2019s venture arm CapitalG and existing backer Nvidia to raise a fresh round that could value the startup at up to $30 billion, Reuters reported, citing two sources. TechCrunch reported last month that Vast Data was working to raise funds at a $25 billion valuation.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}