# Databricks

Databricks, Inc. is an American data and AI software company founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark. It offers a cloud-based platform for data analytics, AI, and the data lakehouse architecture, operating across major cloud providers.

Databricks, Inc. is an American data and artificial intelligence software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark at the University of California, Berkeley, it offers a cloud-based platform for data analytics and [artificial-intelligence](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/artificial-intelligence). The company operates natively across [amazon-web-services](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/amazon-web-services), [azure](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/azure), and [google-cloud](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/google-cloud), and provides a managed AI infrastructure with proprietary foundation models from providers like [openai](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/openai), [anthropic](https://www.wikiprompt.org/wiki/anthropic), and Google Gemini.

Databricks developed the 'data lakehouse' architecture, which combines elements of data warehouses and data lakes for managing structured and unstructured data. The company also develops Delta Lake, an open-source project that adds ACID transaction support to data lakes. Its platform includes the Lakebase database for AI agents, Lakeflow Designer for building data pipelines, and Agent Bricks for production-scale AI agent development.

## History

### 2013–2021
Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at the University of California, Berkeley, which was involved in making Apache Spark, an open-source distributed computing framework built atop Scala. The company was founded by Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, and Reynold Xin. Microsoft Azure integrated Databricks as Azure Databricks in 2017. In February 2021, together with Google Cloud, Databricks provided integration with the Google Kubernetes Engine and Google's BigQuery platform. By that time, the company reported having more than 5,000 customers.

### 2022–present
Databricks announced the Data Intelligence Platform, integrating its lakehouse architecture with generative AI capabilities acquired from MosaicML. The firm was valued at $62 billion in December 2024, following a $10 billion funding round. In early March 2025, Databricks announced it would invest $1 billion in San Francisco's downtown. In June 2025, Databricks entered into a four-year partnership with Alphabet to incorporate Gemini into the Databricks platform. The company also launched Agent Bricks and Lakebase, an OLTP database. In April 2025, Databricks was featured in the Forbes AI 50 list. In December 2025, Databricks raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation, its third major fundraise in less than a year.

## Partnerships and acquisitions

### Corporate partnerships
In December 2024, Databricks, along with Wiz and Workday, decided to run their products on top of AWS via the new button called "Buy with AWS". In March 2025, Databricks entered a five-year partnership with Anthropic, incorporating Anthropic's AI products into its platform in a deal valued at $100 million. In June 2025, Databricks announced a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate its platform with Google Cloud services. In July 2026, Databricks and Microsoft announced an expanded mutual integration extending into the 2030s, with Databricks employing Azure and Microsoft's Cobalt processors, while Microsoft integrated Databricks's data and AI technologies, including its chatbot Genie, into products like Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot. In September 2025, Databricks entered into a partnership with OpenAI to incorporate its LLMs into the platform in a deal valued at $100 million.

### Acquisitions
In June 2020, Databricks bought Redash, an open-source tool for data visualization and interactive dashboards. In 2021, it bought German no-code company 8080 Labs, whose product bamboolib allowed data exploration without coding. In May 2023, Databricks bought data security group Okera, extending its data governance capabilities. In June 2023, it bought the open-source generative AI startup MosaicML for $1.4 billion. In October 2023, Databricks bought data replication startup Arcion for $100 million. In 2024, it bought data-management startup Tabular for over $1 billion. In March 2023, in response to the popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the company introduced an open-source language model named Dolly, with 6 billion parameters, claiming "ChatGPT-like instruction following ability". Databricks reported $1.6 billion in revenue for the 2023 fiscal year. In 2025, Databricks acquired serverless database startup Neon for around $1 billion. In June 2026, it agreed to acquire Panther Labs, an AI security operations center platform, to support its security lakehouse capabilities. In August 2026, Databricks acquired Electric, a data synchronization firm, to extend its PostgreSQL capabilities and support Lakebase infrastructure.

## Finance

### Funding
In September 2013, Databricks raised $13.9 million from Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to offer an alternative to Google's MapReduce system. Microsoft was a noted investor in 2019, participating in the Series E. The company raised $1.9 billion in funding, including a $1 billion Series G led by Franklin Templeton at a $28 billion post-money valuation in February 2021. Other investors include Amazon Web Services, CapitalG, and Salesforce Ventures. In August 2021, Databricks finished its eighth round by raising $1.6 billion, valuing the company at $38 billion. In December 2024, it announced a $10 billion financing at a $62 billion valuation. In August 2025, a $1 billion Series K raised the valuation to over $100 billion. In December 2025, a $4 billion Series L brought the valuation to $134 billion. In July 2026, Coatue Management led a $3 billion investment, making the overall valuation $188 billion.

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Last updated: 2026-09-05T14:07:39.415502+00:00