US data and AI engineering firm with a market-leading Databricks practice, acquired by Deloitte on 31 August 2026 to deepen the AI-ready data foundations client programmes stall on. Terms were not disclosed.
Latest move: Acquired by Deloitte; anchors its Databricks data engineering bench
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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