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Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious
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Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion.
Key facts
- Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion
- Indeed, the funding news follows a stretch of breakneck revenue growth as shared by Sierra, which first said it hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue in late November, then published another
- Today it claims to have more than 40% of the Fortune 50 as customers, and says the agents running on its platform are handling billions of interactions, from refinancing mortgages to processing
- Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga put it plainly in conversation with this editor, saying that Uber “blew through our [AI] budget” soon after opening the door to agentic AI tools late last year
Summary
Like a lot of AI companies, Sierra has, smartly, been proactive in touting its own growth in a crowded market. Indeed, the funding news follows a stretch of breakneck revenue growth as shared by Sierra, which first said it hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue in late November, then published another post in early February, saying it had hit $150 million in ARR. That pacing reflects both the urgency enterprises feel about deploying AI and the costs that come with it. Across a staff of roughly 8,000 engineers and technical workers, about 10% of all code being produced at the company is now generated autonomously, he said, adding that “10% at their scale is huge.