Acquisitions: OpTeamizer (NVIDIA AI), Wavicle Data Solutions (Databricks)
Key fact: Largest Anthropic deployment globally (470K users) | IDC AI Leader 4x. 2026: Industry Solution Studios plus Forward Deployed Engineers; its largest-yet single cloud AI platform investment sits with Google Cloud, where it has deployed 100+ enterprise agents. It closed August by buying Wavicle to become an enterprise orchestrator for Databricks, and opened September pairing its identity practice with Okta to govern AI agent access in regulated sectors.
AI agent identity governance, Asia Pacific and Japan
2026
Investment figures are declared/announced amounts. OpenAI's $122B includes conditional and vendor-linked components (~$37B immediate cash). Valuations are post-money where reported. Key claims externally validated June to September 2026 (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, PR Newswire, firm newsrooms). Relationship years are first-public-announcement years; long-tail partnerships without a public record carry era estimates (flagged yearEstimated). Rumored or unclosed rounds are excluded.
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