DataRobot
Enterprise AI platforms · https://www.datarobot.com
Verdict: Hold · Confidence: medium · Reviewed 2026-10-15
Independent enterprise AI platform still shipping in 2025. The last company valuation found is the July 27, 2021 Series G at $6.3 billion. Current revenue is Unknown, so this is a Hold rather than a Buy.
Rubric
| Dimension | Score (1–5) | Notes & sources |
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| Real customers & revenue quality Are there named paying customers, recurring revenue, and retention evidence? | 3/5 | July 27, 2021 company release: the platform was trusted by a third of the Fortune 50. Dollar revenue, retention, and a current customer count were not disclosed in that release or in the February 10, 2025 Agnostiq acquisition release. Third-party revenue estimates are not used.
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| Unit economics Do gross margins survive inference/compute costs? Is pricing durable? | Unknown | Unknown. No gross margin, pricing, or inference-cost disclosure was found in the company releases reviewed. |
| Moat Proprietary data, distribution, switching costs, or tech that is hard to copy? | 3/5 | July 27, 2021 release announced the acquisition of Algorithmia for MLOps. February 10, 2025 release: DataRobot acquired Agnostiq and its open-source Covalent compute-orchestration platform; the company says Covalent had over 140,000 downloads and an open-source community of 5,000 users. Deal price was not disclosed. The moat is the enterprise model lifecycle plus that orchestration layer, in a crowded platform market.
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| Platform risk Could a model provider or incumbent ship this as a feature? (higher score = lower risk) | 3/5 | DataRobot is the acquirer in the 2025 Agnostiq release, not a product inside a larger parent. The same release stresses multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployment. Databricks, hyperscalers, and other MLOps suites can still cover the same job.
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| Team & execution Shipping cadence, leadership track record, stability. | 3/5 | July 27, 2021 release quoted Dan Wright as CEO. February 10, 2025 release quotes Debanjan Saha as CEO announcing the Agnostiq acquisition, so the company was still executing product deals four years later. No shipping cadence or revenue result was attached to that deal.
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| Funding vs. traction Is capital raised justified by verifiable traction? | 2/5 | July 27, 2021 company release: $300 million Series G at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, more than double the prior round from November 2020, led by Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global. No later financing or current revenue figure was found, so capital versus traction cannot be checked past that 2021 mark.
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| Hype signals Demo-driven marketing, vague metrics, valuation outrunning evidence? (higher score = fewer red flags) | 2/5 | The $6.3 billion figure is a July 2021 company post-money valuation, not a current mark. Five years later the company still does not disclose revenue in the releases reviewed. That gap is the red flag. The Fortune 50 claim is kept as a 2021 company statement, not as proof of today's scale.
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Listing source: https://www.datarobot.com. Revenue, users, and valuation figures appear only when publicly sourced; otherwise they are marked unknown.