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Silicon Valley Unicorns Monthly Roundup – December 2025
![]() Silicon Valley Unicorns Monthly Roundup – December 2025OpenAI — $1 billion, valuation $750 billion. Led by The Walt Disney Company. Founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and others. AI research and deployment company. Databricks — $4 billion, valuation $134 billion. Participation from Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue Management, and others. Founded by Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, and others. Cloud-based data and AI platform. Groq — licensing partnership with NVIDIA, ~$20 billion. Founded by Jonathan Ross. AI inference hardware, Language Processing Unit. GoodLeap — $523 million debt financing. CEO and co-founder Hayes Barnard. Sustainable home solutions marketplace for solar, battery storage financing. Verkada — $20 million, valuation $5.8 billion. Backed by CapitalG. CEO and co-founder Filip Kaliszan. Cloud-based physical security platform. Harness — $200 million, valuation $5.5 billion. Participation from Goldman Sachs, IVP, Menlo Ventures, and others. Founded by Jyoti Bansal and Rishi Singh. Software delivery platform. Chai Discovery — $130 million Series B, valuation $1.3 billion. Participation from General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and others. Founded by Joshua Meier, Matthew McPartlon, and others. AI for drug discovery. PandaDoc — $586 million. Backed by Indico Capital Partners. CEO and co-founder Mikita Mikado. Document automation platform. Serval — $75 million Series B, valuation $1 billion. Backed by Sequoia Capital. Founded by Jake Stauch. AI-native IT service management platform. |

