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Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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Cerebras Systems / Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Since our last coverage, Cerebras postponed its IPO following regulatory questions about its UAE revenue concentration (G42 accounted for ~83% of 2023 revenue) and instead raised $1B from Fidelity and Tiger Global.</li><li>Cerebras&#39;s single-chip architecture loads entire AI models onto one chip with ~44GB of onboard memory, delivering inference ~10x faster than traditional multi-GPU setups—the company historically sold these as $2M hardware units to national labs, but launched a cloud inference API in summer 2024 that has since become the primary growth driver, serving customers like Perplexity, Notion, Windsurf, and Cognition on a pay-per-token basis.</li><li>Where selling $2M chips to national labs like Argonne and Livermore limited Cerebras to a small pool of state-backed research customers with long sales cycles and high revenue concentration, selling inference via API creates higher velocity and opens up the much larger market of AI startups and enterprises that want speed without buying and operating specialized hardware.</li></ul>

Since our last coverage, Cerebras postponed its IPO following regulatory questions about its UAE revenue concentration (G42 accounted for ~83% of 2023 revenue) and instead raised $1B from Fidelity and Tiger Global.Cerebras&#39;s single-chip architecture loads entire AI models onto one chip with ~44GB of onboard memory, delivering inference ~10x faster than traditional multi-GPU setups—the company historically sold these as $2M hardware units to national labs, but launched a cloud inference API in summer 2024 that has since become the primary growth driver, serving customers like Perplexity, Notion, Windsurf, and Cognition on a pay-per-token basis.Where selling $2M chips to national labs like Argonne and Livermore limited Cerebras to a small pool of state-backed research customers with long sales cycles and high revenue concentration, selling inference via API creates higher velocity and opens up the much larger market of AI startups and enterprises that want speed without buying and operating specialized hardware.

<ul><li>Poolside closed a $500 million Series B in October 2024 at approximately $3 billion valuation.</li><li>Poolside announced Project Horizon, a 2 gigawatt AI campus in West Texas.</li><li>Poolside operates as a B2B enterprise software company selling AI coding automation to large organizations.</li></ul>

Poolside closed a $500 million Series B in October 2024 at approximately $3 billion valuation.Poolside announced Project Horizon, a 2 gigawatt AI campus in West Texas.Poolside operates as a B2B enterprise software company selling AI coding automation to large organizations.

<ul><li>Browserbase raised a $40 million Series B in June 2025 at a $300 million post-money valuation.</li><li>Browserbase also offers Director, a no-code interface that lets non-technical users build browser automations through natural language instructions.</li><li>The Model Context Protocol server launch positions Browserbase to monetize the growing universe of AI agents that need browser capabilities.</li></ul>

Browserbase raised a $40 million Series B in June 2025 at a $300 million post-money valuation.Browserbase also offers Director, a no-code interface that lets non-technical users build browser automations through natural language instructions.The Model Context Protocol server launch positions Browserbase to monetize the growing universe of AI agents that need browser capabilities.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates Gamma hit $102M ARR in October 2025, up 3.3x from $30.5M at the end of 2024.</li><li>Foundation model companies OpenAI ($13B annualized revenue in July) and Anthropic ($5B annualized revenue in July) have begun to compete in slides as part of their multimodal push.</li><li>Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), Canva, and Figma (NYSE: FIG) would be natural acquirers of Gamma, which outperforms PowerPoint Copilot on ease of use, AI-first workflows & design.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates Gamma hit $102M ARR in October 2025, up 3.3x from $30.5M at the end of 2024.Foundation model companies OpenAI ($13B annualized revenue in July) and Anthropic ($5B annualized revenue in July) have begun to compete in slides as part of their multimodal push.Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), Canva, and Figma (NYSE: FIG) would be natural acquirers of Gamma, which outperforms PowerPoint Copilot on ease of use, AI-first workflows & design.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

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<li>Microsoft has significantly course corrected on their compute capacity build out, demurred on their right of first refusal for OpenAI compute demand and adopted a risk off "fungible" compute strategy</li>
<li>Mr. Nadella thinks AGI as more hype than substance, "jagged" intelligence will remain problematic for a longer, and the true measure of AI success will be measured by GDP growth</li>
<li>Microsoft stopped reporting AI-driven ARR when the number hit $13 billion six months ago, but why? Broadly deploying AI into productivity tools is a marathon not a sprint.</li>
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Microsoft has significantly course corrected on their compute capacity build out, demurred on their right of first refusal for OpenAI compute demand and adopted a risk off "fungible" compute strategy
Mr. Nadella thinks AGI as more hype than substance, "jagged" intelligence will remain problematic for a longer, and the true measure of AI success will be measured by GDP growth
Microsoft stopped reporting AI-driven ARR when the number hit $13 billion six months ago, but why? Broadly deploying AI into productivity tools is a marathon not a sprint.


Microsoft. Acting Like There's An AI Bubble Without Saying There's An AI Bubble

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Anthropic, PBC operates as an AI safety and research company. The Company builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Anthropic serves customers in the United States.

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