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Databricks

Databricks sells a unified data and AI platform to enterprises for storing, processing, governing, and building AI applications on their own data — with the data engineering team and CDO/CTO as the primary budget owners.

databricks.com · San Francisco

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StageVenture (Round not Specified)December 2025[1]
Raised$31.9Bdisclosed rounds[1]
Headcount11000as of May 2026[1]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2013[21][30][31]
Money

Raised $31.9B across disclosed rounds.[1]

Venture (Round not Specified) closed December 2025.[1]

Round size, post-money valuation, and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder & CEO[29][30][31]

Matei Zaharia, Co-founder & CTO[29][30][31]

Patrick Wendell, Co-founder & VP of Engineering[29][30][31]

Ali Ghodsi, CEO[29][30][31]

Matei Zaharia, CTO[29][30][31]

Patrick Wendell, VP of Engineering[29][30][31]

Signals
May 19 2026newsDatabricks Grows >65% YoY, Surpasses $5.4 Billion Revenue Run-Rate, Doubles Down on Lakebase an. company claim, not independently confirmed[19]
May 19 2026newsToyota Adopts Databricks to Power its Unified Data and AI Platform, “vista” - Databricks company claim, not independently confirmed[3]
May 19 2026fundingDatabricks Grows >55% YoY, Surpasses $4.8B Revenue Run-Rate, and is Raising >$4B Series L at $1. company claim, not independently confirmed[18]
May 13 2026newsDigital Turbine and Databricks Partner to Accelerate Mobile AI Innovation company claim, not independently confirmed[2]
Apr 7 2026launchDBOS, Inc. Announces Technology Partnership with Databricks to Increase Agentic AI Reliability. company claim, not independently confirmed[4]
Comps

Snowflake · snowflake.com · Direct named competitor in the same enterprise data platform market; Reuters coverage of Databricks' Series L explicitly names Snowflake as the primary competitive reference; dbt Labs alumni flow to both Snowflake and Databricks; Alation lists Databricks and...[20][32][33]

dbt Labs · getdbt.com · similar, not yet paired · Overlapping buyer (enterprise data engineering teams); dbt Labs explicitly addresses the 'do we need dbt if we're already on Databricks?' question in its own content; 11 employees sourced from Databricks and 6 alumni flow back to Databricks; both compete and...[32]

Alation · alation.com · similar, not yet paired · Listed as a Databricks competitor in Alation's own competitor field; deepened a formal partnership with Databricks in 2024 specifically around data governance for AI; 13 Alation alumni go to Databricks; both sell to the CDO/data governance buyer in large...[33]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[19]

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Databricks

CALL NO.CS·DATABRICKS·26

Databricks sells a unified data and AI platform to enterprises for storing, processing, governing, and building AI applications on their own data — with the data engineering team and CDO/CTO as the primary budget owners.

databricks.com · San Francisco

StageVenture (Round not Specified)
Raised$31.9B
Headcount11000
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2013
CompsSnowflake +2

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