Private Markets / Emerging Spaces / Data Infrastructure

Data Infrastructure

Databases, lakehouses, streaming, and the data platforms underneath the AI wave.

35/100momentum · Cooling
100tracked companies
$440Bcombined valuation
$433Mcapital · 90d (6 deals)
$9.3Bcapital · 1y (19 deals)
16new entrants · 1y
-43.4%median secondary vs round (52 marks)

Momentum components — 4/4 computable

Funding acceleration20
Deal velocity100
News heat6
Secondary temp7

Components that cannot be computed are dropped and the weights renormalize — never faked to neutral.

Capital by quarter — disclosed rounds

24Q425Q125Q225Q325Q426Q126Q226Q3

Undisclosed amounts count as zero capital; deals still count.

#CompanyValuationSecondary vs RoundLast Round
1 Databricks $190B as of 2026-08 +22.4% 2026-02-12
2 VAST Data $30B as of 2026-Q2 no mark 2026-04-22
3 ClickHouse $15B as of 2026-01 +37.4% 2025-10-01
4 Notion $11B as of 2026-Q1 -50.5% 2026-01-28
5 Supabase $10B as of 2026-06 +101.5% 2026-06-01
6 Lambda $9.4B as of 2025-Q4 +26.1% 2025-11-17
7 Vercel $9.3B as of 2025-09 -9.3% 2025-09-01
8 Replit $9.0B as of 2026-03 -2.2% 2023-04-25
9 Glean $7.2B as of 2025-Q2 -7.2% 2025-06-09
10 Plaid $6.1B as of 2025-Q2 -69.1% 2025-04-22
11 Cockroach Labs $5.4B as of 2021-Q4 -70.8% 2021-12-15
12 6Sense $5.2B as of 2022-Q1 no mark 2022-01-17

Methodology. Emerging Spaces groups the tracked private-company roster into curated thematic spaces and scores each space's momentum 0–100 from four disclosed-data components: trailing-90-day capital vs the prior 90 days (40%), deal-count acceleration on the same windows (25%), news activity per tracked company over 30 days (20%), and the median secondary-market premium to last round across the space's marked names (15%). Components that cannot be computed are dropped and the weights renormalize — the basis is disclosed per space. Quarterly trends derive from dated, disclosed rounds; undisclosed amounts count as zero capital. An attention map of disclosed activity — not a prediction, not investment advice.