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

• Jun 2026press
  Databricks announced the full agenda for its 2026 Data + AI Summit, billed as the world's largest data and AI conference. Co-founders Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, and Reynold Xin will headline the main stage with product announcements and live demos. databricks.com
• Jun 2026product
  Databricks launched Zerobus Ingest in general availability — a fully managed, serverless streaming service that pulls data directly from sources like IoT devices, financial trading apps, and cybersecurity tools into the lakehouse. It eliminates the need for messaging buses like Kafka and reduces data governance gaps during transit. crn.com
• Dec 2025fundraise
  Databricks raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — its third major fundraise in under a year. en.wikipedia.org
• Sep 2025investment
  Databricks entered a four-year partnership with OpenAI to incorporate OpenAI's LLMs into the Databricks platform, in a deal valued at $100 million. en.wikipedia.org
• Jun 2025product
  Databricks signed a four-year partnership with Alphabet to bring Google's Gemini models into its platform. The company also launched Agent Bricks, a suite of tools for building AI agents, and Lakebase, a fully managed serverless Postgres-based OLTP database built into the lakehouse. en.wikipedia.org
• Mar 2025investment
  Databricks entered a five-year partnership with Anthropic valued at $100 million, adding Anthropic's AI products to its platform. en.wikipedia.org
• Mar 2025press
  Databricks committed $1 billion to investment in San Francisco's downtown. en.wikipedia.org
• 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

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
• https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-announces-2026-data-ai-summit-keynote-lineup-and
• https://www.crn.com/news/software/2026/new-databricks-offering-targets-next-generation-data-streaming
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databricks

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