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Databricks
Growth10,000+ employeesData & AI infrastructureSan Francisco, CAHybrid
Overview
Databricks is the pioneer of the data lakehouse, a unified platform for data science, machine learning, data engineering, and analytics. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to accelerate AI innovation and help data teams solve the world's toughest problems with its industry-leading Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Why we invested
Seven academics who had never run a company argued the warehouse and the lake were one product. We wrote the first institutional check on that argument in 2013 — and joined eleven of the fourteen disclosed rounds since.
The thesis was never Spark; it was the flywheel. Give the standard away — Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow — and become the obvious place to run it. That pattern held through the lakehouse and is holding again through AI, with models training inside the same boundary as the data.
Our first check
$14M at $47M
Series A, 2013 — a16z led
Since then
4,000×
that valuation, 13 years on
Rounds joined
11 of 14
disclosed priced rounds
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2009
Born at Berkeley
Matei Zaharia builds Spark as a PhD project at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab: an in-memory answer to MapReduce that runs orders of magnitude faster on iterative work. It stays an academic project for four years, and it is the foundation everything since is built on.
Funding rounds
Aug 2026
Strategic
Raised $5B
Valuation $190B
Coatue led · a16z, Blackstone, MGX, GIC, Insight Partners, Dragoneer, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs Growth, J.P. Morgan Private Capital, Morgan Stanley IM, NEA, Ontario Teachers’, Point72, Premji Invest, Sixth Street Growth, T. Rowe Price, BOND, Clearlake, Kinetic
Dec 2025
Series L
Raised $4B+
Valuation $134B
Insight Partners, MGX, a16z, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Sixth Street Growth, T. Rowe Price
Sep 2025
Series K
Raised $1B
Valuation $100B+
Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, a16z co-led · MGX, GIC, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Team
Ali GhodsiCo-founder & CEOOne of the seven Berkeley researchers behind Apache Spark. Took the CEO seat in 2016 and has run the company from early revenue to a $190B valuation.LinkedIn ↗
Matei ZahariaCo-founder & CTOWrote Spark as his PhD project at the AMPLab and created MLflow. Still teaches at Berkeley and sets the technical agenda.LinkedIn ↗
Reynold XinCo-founder & Chief ArchitectTop Spark contributor by commits. Owns the architecture of the lakehouse runtime and the Delta Lake format.LinkedIn ↗
Arsalan Tavakoli-ShirajiCo-founder & SVP, Field EngineeringBuilt the go-to-market motion from zero. Runs the field organization that most new engineering and GTM hires work alongside.LinkedIn ↗Culture
Six culture principles
How we work ↗We are customer obsessed
What's best for the customer is best for Databricks.
We raise the bar
Every day is a chance to do better, as team members and as a company.
We are truth seeking
Decisions are made on data, and revisited as it changes.
We operate from first principles
To build lasting impact, start with why.
We bias for action
Debate, plan, execute — and iterate — with urgency.
We put the company first
Do what's best for the company; it incorporates all the rest.