🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-29
Chalk AI scored a Series A just 18 months post-seed, aiming to innovate beyond Snowflake and Databricks!
🤖 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was the recent Series A raised by Chalk AI. Who? These folks:
https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p12#a250529p12
Chalk AI is interesting because of the origin story and founding team background but also because while some companies are building on top of Snowflake, Databricks, etc. it is companies like Chalk AI looking to be the companies that come after Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
In fact, it is just 18 months since Chalk AI got Seed funding.
https://chalk.ai/blog/announcing-chalk-10m-seed-funding
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