Weaviate Raises $50 Million Series B Funding to Meet Soaring Demand for AI Native Vector Database Technology
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The capital will be used to expand the Weaviate team and accelerate the development of its popular open source database and new Weaviate Cloud Service to satisfy the rapidly growing AI application development market.AI Innovation is Fueled by Algorithmic "Vector Data" Global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and services is expected to reach $154 billion in 2023 and surpass $300 billion in 2026 (source: ). This massive wave of application development will be powered by a new type of data, embedding vectors , which are AI-generated representations of documents, images, customers, products, and other objects. High performance Sub-second search, scales to billions of objects, runs non-stop.Since raising its series A funding in early 2022, Weaviate has seen open source downloads pass the 2 million mark. "Weaviates vector database and search engine provides a critical piece of infrastructure thats helping to drive a massive AI platform shift," says Index Ventures partner Erin Price-Wright . "With every major data-platform shift, weve seen the emergence of a new, underlying technology and the explosion of generative AI is no different," said Dharmesh Thakker , a general partner at Battery Ventures.
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