Databricks

Databricks, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded2013; 12 years ago (2013)[1]
Founders
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
  • Ali Ghodsi
  • (CEO)
  • Ion Stoica
  • (Executive chairman)
RevenueIncrease $1.6 billion (2023)[2]
Number of employees
c. 8,000 (2025)[3]
Websitedatabricks.com

Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark.[1][4] The company provides a cloud-based platform to help enterprises build, scale, and govern data and AI, including generative AI and other machine learning models.[5]

Databricks pioneered the data lakehouse, a data and AI platform that combines the capabilities of a data warehouse with a data lake, allowing organizations to manage and use both structured and unstructured data for traditional business analytics and AI workloads.[6] The company similarly develops Delta Lake, an open-source project to bring reliability to data lakes for machine learning and other data science use cases.[7]

  1. ^ a b Krystal Hu; Kenrick Cai; Echo Wang (December 13, 2024). "Exclusive: Databricks nears record $9.5 billion VC raise, eyes extra $4.5 billion debt". Reuters. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  2. ^ Lin, Belle (March 6, 2024). "AI is Driving Record Sales at Multibillion-Dollar Databricks. An IPO Can Wait …". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Jordan, Novet (January 22, 2025). "Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO". CNBC. Archived from the original on January 22, 2025.
  4. ^ Saul, Derek (September 14, 2023). "Top IPO Prospect Databricks Scores $43 Billion Valuation Thanks To $500 Million Funding Round Including AI Titan Nvidia". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 4, 2024. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Mark (March 19, 2024). "How Databricks is helping customers develop their own customized AI models". Fast Company. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  6. ^ Clark, Lindsay (November 16, 2023). "Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams". The Register. Archived from the original on September 4, 2024. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  7. ^ "Databricks launches Delta Lake, an open source data lake reliability project". VentureBeat. April 24, 2019. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2021.

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