Databricks
Based in San Francisco, United States, Databricks is a Data and AI Platform Software company established in 2013.
Databricks Inc. is a private American data and artificial intelligence company headquartered at 160 Spear Street in San Francisco, California, with more than 17,300 employees and offices in nineteen countries across five continents. It was incorporated in 2013 by seven researchers from the AMPLab at the University of California, Berkeley who had built Apache Spark: Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji. The company sells a unified Data Intelligence Platform that spans data engineering, data warehousing, streaming, governance, machine learning and generative AI, marketed through products including Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. More than 20,000 organizations use it, among them adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian and Unilever, and the company states that over 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are customers. On August 13, 2026 Databricks announced that it had crossed a 7 billion dollar revenue run-rate with more than 80 percent year over year growth, alongside a 5 billion dollar strategic funding round led by Coatue at a 190 billion dollar valuation. Ali Ghodsi, one of the co-founders, has been chief executive officer since 2016, and fellow co-founder Ion Stoica serves as executive chair. It employs 17,306 people, led by Ali Ghodsi (Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer), across roughly 17,306 tracked profiles. Firmographics, leadership, tech stack and similar companies are detailed below, as of August 2026.
Firmographics
Tech stack
Leadership
- AG
Ali GhodsiCo-founder and Chief Executive Officerdetails → - DCDavid ConteChief Financial Officerdetails →
- MZ
Matei ZahariaCo-founder and Chief Technology Officerdetails → - RSRick SchultzChief Marketing Officerdetails →
- HSHatim ShafiqueChief Operating Officerdetails →
- IS
Ion StoicaCo-founder and Executive Chairdetails → - AKAndy KofoidPresident, Global Field Operationsdetails →
- RXReynold XinCo-founder and Chief Architectdetails →
- NZNaveen ZutshiChief Information Officerdetails →
- AK
Andy KonwinskiCo-founderdetails → - ATArsalan Tavakoli-ShirajiCo-founder and SVP of Field Engineeringdetails →
- PWPatrick WendellCo-founder and VP of Engineeringdetails →
- RGRon GabriskoChief Revenue Officerdetails →
- ARAmy ReichanadterChief People Officerdetails →
- FSFermin SernaChief Security Officerdetails →
- TPTram PhiSVP and General Counseldetails →
- VMVinod MarurSVP of Engineeringdetails →
- DMDavid MeyerSVP of Productsdetails →
- ACAdam ConwaySVP of Productsdetails →
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Org chart
Employees (~17,306 tracked)
Distribution estimatedDatabricks News & media
- Databricks Grows >80% YoY, Surpasses $7B Revenue Run-Rate, Scales Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway
The company reported crossing a 7 billion dollar revenue run-rate with growth above 80 percent, and disclosed a 5 billion dollar strategic round at a 190 billion dollar valuation.
- Databricks and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Help Enterprises Bring Business Context to Enterprise AI
The two companies widened their existing partnership around bringing enterprise business context into AI systems.
- Databricks is Raising a Strategic Round of Funding at a $188 Billion Valuation
Coatue led a strategic round announced at a 188 billion dollar valuation, earmarked for Unity AI Gateway, Genie, Lakebase, AI research and acquisitions.
- Databricks Enters the Marketing Industry with CustomerLake: Agentic Customer Data Platform (CDP)
CustomerLake takes the company into customer data platforms, with an agentic approach built on the lakehouse.
- Databricks Launches LTAP: The First Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing Architecture
LTAP runs transactional and analytical workloads on a single copy of lake storage.
- Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther, Further Establishing the Security Lakehouse Category
The acquisition of the cloud-native AI security operations platform Panther extends the lakehouse into security operations.
- Databricks Launches Genie One: All-New Agentic Coworker for Every Team
Genie One was introduced as an agentic coworker aimed at every team inside a customer organisation.
- Databricks Launches Lakehouse//RT to Bring Real-Time Analytics Directly to the Lakehouse
Lakehouse//RT adds real-time analytics natively to the lakehouse architecture.
- Databricks Announces OpenSharing, a New Open Standard for Sharing of Data and AI Assets Across Platforms and Organizations
OpenSharing proposes an open standard for exchanging data and AI assets between platforms and organisations.
- Databricks Announces 2026 Data + AI Summit Keynote Lineup and Programming
The company set out the keynote lineup and programming for what it describes as the world's largest data and AI conference.
- Databricks to invest US$300 million in ANZ over the next three years
A 300 million dollar commitment to Australia and New Zealand over three years covers hiring, skills and local capability.
- Databricks Appoints Simon Davies as Head of Asia Pacific & Japan Amidst Rapid Expansion in the Region
Simon Davies took over the Asia Pacific and Japan region as the company grew its footprint there.
Recent signals
- Databricks closed a 5 billion dollar strategic funding round at a 190 billion dollar valuation, led by existing investor Coatue with Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, BOND, Clearlake Capital, Point72, Premji Invest and TPG participating, and Sixth Street Growth joining as a new investor · August 2026
- The company announced it had crossed a 7 billion dollar revenue run-rate with more than 80 percent year over year growth, including a 1.5 billion dollar run-rate for the Lakehouse data warehousing product growing over 100 percent year over year and more than 100 million dollars of run-rate for the Lakebase database · August 2026
- More than 1,000 customers now consume at over 1 million dollars of annual revenue run-rate and more than 100 customers consume at over 10 million dollars, across a base of more than 20,000 organisations · August 2026
- Databricks and Microsoft expanded their partnership to help enterprises bring business context to enterprise AI, deepening a relationship that already ran through Azure Databricks · July 2026
- The company publicly announced it was raising a strategic round at a 188 billion dollar valuation, led by Coatue and expected to close in the summer, to fund the Unity AI Gateway, the Genie agent platform, the Lakebase serverless Postgres database, AI research and future acquisitions · July 2026
- Databricks agreed to acquire Panther, a cloud-native AI security operations platform, establishing what the company calls the security lakehouse category and underpinning its Lakewatch agentic SIEM · June 2026
- At Data + AI Summit the company launched LTAP, described as the first lake transactional and analytical processing architecture, running both workload types on a single copy of lake storage · June 2026
- Genie One was launched as an agentic coworker for every team, alongside Lakehouse//RT for real-time analytics directly on the lakehouse, and CustomerLake, an agentic customer data platform that takes the company into the marketing technology market · June 2026
- OpenSharing was announced as a new open standard for sharing data and AI assets across platforms and organisations · June 2026
- Databricks committed to invest 300 million US dollars in Australia and New Zealand over three years · May 2026
- Simon Davies was appointed head of Asia Pacific and Japan as the company expanded across the region · April 2026
- The company operates from more than 30 offices spanning nineteen countries and five continents, with engineering concentrated in San Francisco, Mountain View, Seattle and Bengaluru · August 2026
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