Databricks

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Databricks, a Data and AI platform company, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It gives enterprises a unified platform — spanning data lakehouse, agentic AI, and analytics — used by over 20,000 organizations including 60%+ of the Fortune 500. In February 2026 the company closed a $5B Series L at a $134B valuation, with AI products alone generating $1.4B in annualized revenue.

Key facts

Founded

May 2013

Founders

Ali Ghodsi

Employees

8226

Sectors

ai, enterprise, saas

Website

www.databricks.com

Mission

Databricks' mission is to make data and AI accessible to every organization — providing a unified platform where enterprises can store, process, and act on their data to build AI applications, analytics, and autonomous agents at scale.

Recent activity

• May 2026fundraise
  Databricks announced a Series K raise valuing the company at over $100B, earmarked for expanding Agent Bricks and the new Lakebase database offering. x.com
• Apr 2026leadership
  Databricks hired an ex-SAP executive to head its APAC and Japan operations. tracxn.com
• Apr 2026press
  UiPath announced a partnership with Databricks to advance AI-driven enterprise operations. tracxn.com
• Feb 2026fundraise
  Databricks completed its Series L: ~$5B equity at a $134B valuation plus ~$2B in new debt capacity. The company crossed a $5.4B revenue run-rate, growing >65% year-over-year in Q4. AI products account for $1.4B of annualized revenue. Investors include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Glade Brook Capital, QIA, and Microsoft. cnbc.com
• Feb 2026product
  Databricks launched Lakebase into GA — a serverless Postgres database designed for AI workloads — and announced expanded investment in the Genie conversational AI assistant. databricks.com
• Jan 2026investment
  Databricks Ventures participated in Nimble's $47M Series B, integrating Nimble's real-time web data retrieval directly into the Databricks environment. calcalistech.com
• Dec 2025fundraise
  Databricks closed an earlier Series L tranche at a $134B valuation led by Insight Partners, Fidelity, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, and Blackstone also participating. reuters.com

Key people

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• Ali Ghodsi · Co-Founder & CEO
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• Ippokratis Pandis · Employee
• Matei Zaharia · Co-founder & CTO
• Ion Stoica · Co-founder, Executive Chairman
• Reynold Xin · Co-founder & Chief Architect
• Patrick Wendell · Co-founder & VP Engineering
• Naveen Rao · VP of AI
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• David Conte · CFO

Sources

• Databricks completes $5 billion funding round at $134 billion valuation
• Databricks Grows >65% YoY, Surpasses $5.4 Billion Revenue Run-Rate
• Databricks builds war chest with $134 billion valuation in latest funding round
• Databricks Series K announcement on X
• Nimble raises $47 million Series B backed by Databricks
• Databricks - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors - Tracxn

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