Databricks

Unified analytics and AI platform for data lakehouse.

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Databricks is a privately held data-and-AI software company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow and Unity Catalog. Its platform unifies data engineering, data warehousing, analytics, governance, machine learning and generative/agentic AI on an open lakehouse architecture. Databricks says more than 20,000 organizations use its platform, including more than 60%/70% of the Fortune 500 depending on the cited company release.

Primary product

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform (formerly commonly described as the Lakehouse Platform), including Lakehouse, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI/AI products, Genie, Agent Bricks and Lakebase.

Founded

2013

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, USA — 160 Spear Street, 15th Floor

Team size

10,000+ globally; a July 2026 company release described more than 20,000 employees, while the official press kit states more than 10,000, so an exact current count is omitted.

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Enterprise software / data and AI

Sub-industry

Cloud data platforms, lakehouse analytics, machine learning and enterprise AI

Offices

San Francisco, California (world headquarters)

Bellevue, Washington

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chicago, Illinois

Denver, Colorado

Mountain View/Silicon Valley, California

New York, New York

Seattle, Washington

Toronto, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia

Business model

Usage-based cloud software billed through Databricks Units (DBUs)

Pay-as-you-go consumption with per-second billing

Committed-use contracts with volume discounts

Cloud marketplace and strategic cloud-partner distribution

Enterprise platform and support contracts

Funding

Stage

Late-stage private / pre-IPO

Total raised

$20.2B

Latest round

Strategic funding round · Jul 2026

Latest amount

$3B

Strategic round

Jul 2026 · Coatue Management

$3B

Equity financing (Feb 9, 2026)

Feb 2026 · Syndicate led by institutional and strategic investors (announced by Databricks)

$5B

Series L

Feb 2026

$5B

Additional debt (announced Jan 24, 2026)

Jan 2026 · J.P. Morgan Chase, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley

$2B

Series K

Aug 2025

Debt facility (announced Jan 2025)

Jan 2025 · Consortium including Blackstone, Apollo, Blue Owl, J.P. Morgan, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley

$5.3B

Series J

Dec 2024 · DST Global

$10B

Series I

Sep 2023 · Baillie Gifford

$500M

Series I (Sep 2023)

Sep 2023 · Capital One Ventures & NVIDIA (participants)

$500M

Series H

Aug 2021 · Baillie Gifford

$1.6B

Series H (Aug 2021)

Aug 2021 · Morgan Stanley

$1.6B

Series G

Feb 2021 · Coatue Management

$1B

Series G (Jan 2021)

Jan 2021 · Franklin Templeton Investments

$1B

Series F

Oct 2019 · BlackRock

$400M

Series F (Oct 2019)

Oct 2019 · Andreessen Horowitz

$400M

Series E

Feb 2019 · Coatue Management

$250M

Series E (Feb 2019)

Feb 2019 · Andreessen Horowitz

$250M

Series D

Aug 2017 · A.Capital

$140M

Series D (2017)

Jan 2017 · Andreessen Horowitz

$140M

Series C

Dec 2016

$60M

People & investors

Leadership

Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Ion Stoica

Co-founder and Executive Chair

Matei Zaharia

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Patrick Wendell

Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering

Reynold Xin

Co-founder and Chief Architect

Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

Co-founder and Senior Vice President, Field Engineering

Dave Conte

Chief Financial Officer

Amy Reichanadter

Chief People Officer

Naveen Zutshi

Chief Information Officer

Andy Kofoid

President, Global Field Operations

Ron Gabrisko

Chief Revenue Officer

Trâm Phi

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Founders

Andy Konwinski

Co-founder

Arsalan Tavakoli‑Shiraji

Co‑founder

Investors

Work & culture

Databricks describes its employees as innovators, builders and truthseekers, with emphasis on inclusion, diversity, equity, collaborative development and reducing bias in recruiting. Its benefits page describes a flexible model: most employees work from home much of the time and attend a weekly team day, while some roles are fully remote and office attendance can be more frequent by choice.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Yes

Compensation

Public H-1B Labor Condition Application data indicates substantial sponsorship activity: Ellis reports 384 H-1B LCAs and seven PERM petitions in 2025, with a median sponsored-position salary of about $153,227. Reported 2026 medians include approximately $145,000 for software engineers, $172,000 for senior software engineers and $202,000 for staff software engineers. These are visa-filing wage signals, not a universal Databricks salary band or total compensation guarantee.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Financial benefits

Paid parental leave

Gym reimbursement

Personal development fund

Mental-health and wellness support

Business travel insurance

Product and service discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Weekly team days for many hybrid teams

Product & market

Pricing

Consumption-based pricing: pay for Databricks Units (DBUs) at per-second granularity, generally in addition to the underlying AWS, Azure or Google Cloud infrastructure bill. Customers can also use committed-use contracts for discounts; exact rates vary by cloud, workload and edition.

Differentiators

—Open lakehouse architecture combining lake and warehouse workloads
—Common data, governance, analytics, ML and AI foundation
—Open-source heritage through Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow
—Unity Catalog governance across data and AI assets
—Strong Spark and large-scale data-engineering ecosystem
—Multi-cloud availability across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
—Integrated AI model development, serving and agent tooling
—Consumption model aligned to workload usage rather than seats

Technology

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Photon

Databricks SQL

Lakeflow

Mosaic AI

Genie

Lakebase

Agent Bricks

Python

SQL

Scala

Kubernetes

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Customers

adidas

AT&T

Bayer

Block

BMW Group

Comcast

HSBC

Mastercard

Rivian

Shell

T-Mobile

Unilever

70% of the Fortune 500

Competitors

Snowflake

Google BigQuery

Amazon Redshift

Microsoft Fabric / Azure Synapse

Google Dataproc

Amazon EMR

Cloudera

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $6.5B–$7.0B annualized revenue run rate as of June 2026; CNBC reported $6.9B, up more than 80% year over year. This is an annualized run rate, not audited annual revenue.

Estimated monthly visits

631.2K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

866-330-0121

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Jun 2026

Databricks announced an agreement to acquire Panther, an AI SOC/security platform, to expand its security-lakehouse and agentic detection strategy.

Source

Acquisition

Mar 2026

Databricks acquired SiftD.ai as part of its expansion into AI-driven security and Lakewatch.

Source

Acquisition

Mar 2026

Databricks announced the Lakewatch security product and acquisitions including Antimatter and SiftD.ai; the expansion increases strategic scope and integration complexity.

Source

Other

Jun 2026

Databricks reported rapid AI-driven growth but also acknowledged margin pressure as customers deploy more compute-intensive AI agents.

Source

Other

Jul 2026

The latest strategic financing was announced on a signed term sheet and was expected to close later in summer 2026; the company had not yet received the funds at announcement.

Source

Latest news

Databricks and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Help Enterprises Bring Business Context to Enterprise AI

Databricks / Microsoft · Jul 2026

The companies extended their strategic partnership into the 2030s, deepening Azure Databricks usage and integrating Genie and Unity AI Gateway across Microsoft products.

Databricks is Raising a Strategic Round of Funding at a $188 Billion Valuation

Databricks · Jul 2026

Databricks announced a Coatue-led strategic financing term sheet at a $188 billion valuation, reportedly about $3 billion, to fund AI innovation and future acquisitions.

Databricks Launches Genie One: All-New Agentic Coworker for Every Team

Databricks · Jun 2026

Databricks launched Genie One, an agentic coworker intended to let business teams use governed enterprise data for answers and actions.

Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther, Further Establishing the Security Lakehouse Category

Databricks · Jun 2026

The proposed Panther acquisition adds AI SOC, detection-as-code and agentic security workflows to Databricks’ Lakewatch security-lakehouse strategy.

Revenue growth tops 80% to $6.9 billion annualized

CNBC · Jun 2026

CNBC reported Databricks’ annualized revenue reached $6.9 billion, up more than 80% year over year, while AI workload costs were putting pressure on margins.

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