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DataRobot

Enterprise SoftwareUSA
New to Unitard
✂️ Markdown
  1. 🦄
    Became a unicorn
    Sep 2019
  2. 📈
    Peak valuation
    $6.45 Billion ’21
  3. 💔
    Became a Unitard
    ~2023
  4. 💸
    Last valuation
    —
Current status
Private; written down by mutual-fund holders in SEC filings (marks below).

The rise & fall

6 moments · 2012–2024

The key moments, with employee sentiment along the way.

2012
Founded in Boston
Data scientists Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy set out to automate the machine-learning lifecycle.
TechCrunch
Sep 2019
Joins the unicorn club
A late-stage round values the AutoML platform above $1B.
TechCrunch
2021
The peak: the Series G$6.45B
A 2021 Series G values DataRobot near $6.45B at the height of the private AI boom.
TechCrunch
2022
Founders out; deep cuts
A leadership shake-up sweeps through after the boom, and layoffs follow as private-market sentiment turns.
TechCrunch
2023
Slips out of the club
Mutual funds holding the stock mark it down in SEC filings; the paper valuation slides below $1B.
SEC filing
From the inside · Glassdoor reviews, 2022–24
Glassdoor reviews traced the turbulence behind the markdown: after the founders' 2022 exit, reviewers counted a revolving door of CEOs and sales leaders and a reduction that cut roughly a third of staff — while still praising the technology and colleagues, and faulting constant strategy shifts.
Today
Still private — the funds keep marking
BlackRock Science & Technology Trust marks it at $4.62/share · -83% from its peak mark · as of Mar 2024
SEC NPORT-P

💬 entries paraphrase anonymous, unverified reviews posted publicly on Glassdoor ↗; dated facts carry their source.

How it happened

DataRobot builds an enterprise AI platform that automates the machine-learning lifecycle, from data preparation to model deployment. It was last valued near $6.45B in a 2021 Series G before falling out of the unicorn club as private-market holders marked it down; it remains private.

Mutual-fund markdowns

8 funds · SEC NPORT-P

How U.S. mutual funds fair-value this still-private company in their quarterly SEC filings.

Per-share mark from peak
-83%
BlackRock Science & Technology Trust
$27.19 → $4.62
as of Mar 2024
FundClass$/shFrom peakAs of
BlackRock Science & Technology Trust$4.62-83%Mar 2024
Connetic Venture Capital Access Fund$1.90-20%Mar 2026
BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust$4.62-20%Mar 2024
BlackRock Science & Technology Trust II$4.51-83%Mar 2023
BlackRock Science and Technology Trust$29.77+0%Dec 2021
BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II$29.77+0%Dec 2021
T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund, Inc.Preferred$2.86—Jun 2025
T. Rowe Price Diversified Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.Preferred$2.86—Jun 2025

Source: SEC EDGAR Form NPORT-P (Level-3 fair-value marks). Per-share marks reflect the fund’s own valuation of a specific share class and aren’t a company-wide valuation. Last refreshed Jun 2026.

Source: SEC NPORT-P fund marks (below); peak per primary round

Founders & leadership

  • Debanjan Saha
    CEO (current)
    Still there — Chief Executive OfficerLinkedIn ↗
  • Jeremy Achin
    co-founder & CEO (led data science at Travelers; top-20 Kaggle)
    Now General Partner at Cortical VenturesLinkedIn ↗
  • Tom DeGodoy
    co-founder & CTO (met Achin at UMass; also led data science at Travelers)
    Now Data Scientist and EntrepreneurLinkedIn ↗

Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-21. See our methodology.

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