AI21·Generative AI / enterprise foundation models & agent orchestration (application + model layer)Pre-IPO · Private

AI21 Labs

ConvictionContext

B2B enterprise SaaS + model API/consumption (AI21 Studio, Maestro contracts), open-weight model distribution via cloud marketplaces (AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Azure, NVIDIA NIM, Snowflake, Databricks), plus legacy consumer subscription (Wordtune).

Revenue

~$50-58Mthird-party estimates; getlatka ~$57.8M for 2024, Calcalist ~$50M annualized and 'below $50M for several years') - not company-disclosed

Rev growth

not disclosed2023 est. ~$50M to 2024 est. ~$57.8M implies low-double-digit % on unaudited third-party numbers; 2026 reporting puts annualized revenue back around ~$50M, i.e. flat-to-down; treat all as indicative only

Gross margin

not disclosed

Op margin

not discloseddeeply loss-making, typical of pre-scale frontier-model labs; May 2026 61% headcount cut signals a cash-burn / path-to-sustainability reset

Capex intensity

not disclosedcompute is rented (Nvidia GPUs via hyperscalers/Nebius) rather than owned, so training spend runs through opex, not capex

Valuation

~$1.4Bthe mark from the 2023 Series C — the last priced round to actually close; no round has priced since. No public listing. A reported ~$300M Series D led by Google + Nvidia (mid-2025) was never completed and never reflected in the cap table. Nvidia held advanced acquisition talks valued at $2-3B (late 2025/early 2026) that did not close; subsequent Nebius M&A talks (Apr 2026) resolved into a commercial partnership / technology-license + team-relocation arrangement rather than an outright purchase.

Valuation trail

Series C extension to $208M total (Google + Nvidia)2.1× since Jul 2022

3 marks · Jul 2022–Nov 2023

private — no public price

Priced round

Chronological priced rounds only. A widely reported ~$300M Series D (mid-2025, said to be led by Google + Nvidia at ~$1.4B post-money) is deliberately EXCLUDED from the trail: later Calcalist/Ctech reporting confirmed it never closed, was never announced, and never entered the cap table. Separately, Nvidia acquisition talks (late 2025/early 2026) implied a ~$2-3B strategic value and Nebius talks (Apr 2026) occurred, but neither was a priced financing round or a completed transaction, so both are held out of the trail (captured in signals/valuation). The ~$1.4B mark has therefore been static since 2023.

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