American software company
Databricks, Inc. Company type Private Industry Computer software Founded 2013; 12 years ago (2013 ) [ 1] Founders Headquarters , United States
Key people
Ali Ghodsi (CEO) Ion Stoica (Executive chairman) Revenue $1.6 billion (2023)[ 2] Number of employees
c. 8,000 (2025)[ 3] Website databricks .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]
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