Databricks

Quick read

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

• 2025product
  Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi appeared at RSA Conference to announce Lakewatch, the company's entry into cybersecurity, citing AI agents that can now exploit vulnerabilities within a single day. linkedin.com
• 2025investment
  Databricks acquired Quotient AI, whose platform monitors agent behavior in production and catches issues such as hallucinations and broken reasoning chains before users encounter them. linkedin.com
• 2025press
  Fast Company named Databricks one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, citing its infrastructure role in the AI agent era alongside products including Genie, Lakebase, and Lakewatch. linkedin.com
• 2025press
  Matei Zaharia won the ACM Prize in Computing, recognising his foundational contributions to data and AI infrastructure. linkedin.com
• 2025product
  Databricks launched Lakebridge updates including Synapse support in its assessment profiling tool, AI-powered SQL conversion, and a guided desktop app that consolidates assessment, code conversion, and reconciliation into one workflow. linkedin.com
• 2025product
  Databricks introduced a unified near-real-time data stack combining Zerobus Ingest (≤5-second latency into governed Delta tables), Lakebase managed Postgres, and Databricks Apps — all on a single data foundation. linkedin.com
• 2025product
  Databricks AI Research published findings on context-window flooding in LLM agents, showing how a single SQL query can return millions of rows that persist across every subsequent turn, and described mitigations used in production agents including Genie and Agent Bricks. instalker.org
• 2025press
  Databricks co-founder and VP of Engineering Patrick Wendell publicly warned that exponentially growing AI coding-tool costs can reverse the efficiency gains of enterprise AI adoption. x.com
• Jun–Jul 2026product
  Databricks held its Data + AI Summit 2026 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, drawing over 30,000 registered attendees. Key product releases included Genie One, Genie Ontology, Agent Bricks, Unity Catalog Metrics, Unity AI Gateway, Lakebase, and LTAP (Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing Architecture). CEO Ali Ghodsi's keynote framed agent quality as a context problem, not an intelligence problem. qubika.com
• Jul 2026product
  Databricks introduced Feature Views on July 10, 2026, adding declarative feature engineering, online feature serving on Lakebase, and high-QPS Model Serving to support real-time ML workloads such as fraud detection and personalization. databricks.com
• Jun 2026product
  Databricks announced Lakebase Branching, which creates isolated, ephemeral database environments letting AI coding agents iterate without touching production data. linkedin.com
• Jun 2026product
  Databricks announced platform security and compliance updates at DAIS 2026, including General Availability of AIM for Microsoft Entra ID on AWS and GCP, a new Private Network Gateway for serverless connectivity, and HITRUST coverage across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. 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
• https://qubika.com/blog/everything-databricks-announced-dais-data-ai-summit-2026/
• https://www.databricks.com/blog/category/platform/announcements
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks
• https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-new-databricks-platform-security-and-compliance-data-ai-summit-2026
• https://www.reddit.com/r/databricks/comments/1u78tc0/megathread_databricks_data_and_ai_summit_day_1/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-gabrisko-4a21a
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-sutara/
• https://instalker.org/DbrxMosaicAI
• https://x.com/databricks

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