Rubrik acquires Predibase to speed up adoption of AI brokers

Information cybersecurity firm Rubrik introduced Wednesday its intent to accumulate Predibase. Predibase is a venture-backed startup that helps corporations practice and fine-tune open supply AI fashions to customise them to their wants. Rubrik is the most recent firm to make an acquisition with the purpose of boosting enterprise AI agent adoption. 

Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed, although CNBC reported that the deal was between $100 million and $500 million, a large vary. Rubrik declined to touch upon the deal measurement.

Predibase was based in 2021 by Devvret Rishi, present CEO, Piero Molino, present chief science officer, and Travis Addair, present CTO. The corporate has raised greater than $28 million in VC cash from buyers together with Felicis, Greylock and Sancus Ventures, amongst others. 

The combination of Predibase will enable Rubrik customers to speed up constructing AI brokers via Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Agentspace, in keeping with a press launch. 

“When [Predibase’s] capabilities are paired with safe information platforms like Rubrik’s, they are often transformative, serving to guarantee trusted information powers accountable and impactful AI,” Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Rubrik, wrote in a weblog submit in regards to the deal. “Simply as Rubrik has simplified entry to secured, ruled information for AI, Predibase is fixing the efficiency and price points round deploying massive language fashions for agentic and different AI purposes.”

Rubrik is only one in a rising listing of corporations making acquisitions to bolster their expertise stack for the creation of AI brokers. 

Salesforce acquired information administration agency Informatica for $8 billion in Could. Snowflake acquired Crunchy Information to bolster its AI agent choices in early June, and Collibra acquired Raito for comparable causes a number of days later. 

Rubrik was based in 2014 and raised greater than $1.6 billion in enterprise capital, from corporations together with Khosla Ventures, IVP, and Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, amongst others, earlier than going public in April 2024.