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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
Valuation
$190B
August 2026
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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
Databricks, in their own words
In office
A weekly Team Day
Most work happens at home; some fully remote roles skip Team Days.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Quote · CEO
"some people interview really poorly, but they might be excellent."
He asks candidates to solve real problems from the job.
Twice a summer
Two days of hackathons, twice a summer
An in-house saying: "all of our popular features come from Hackathons".
Ned
Compute Fabric Team, San Francisco
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
The 13th floor
A cheaper office on the 13th floor
The team moved from Berkeley in 2015, undeterred by the unlucky number.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Every year
An annual "the sky is falling" exercise
Employees write a plan for the market drying up.
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder and CTO
Quote · CTO
"AGI is here already. It's just not in a form that we appreciate."
Said when the ACM announced his prize for creating Apache Spark.
Before you interview
"If you visit any Databricks office, do not bring your work computer."
Candidates are also asked to leave current and former employers’ confidential information behind.
Ion Stoica, co-founder and Executive Chair of Databricks
Seven founders
"We always considered ourselves the Berkeley mafia"
Seven Berkeley academics agreed to start Databricks over cheap Indian food in 2012.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Listen · 46 min
What seven co-founders taught Ali Ghodsi
A Stanford podcast on trust and making hard decisions.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Brickster Champion
A title for community champions
First Brickster Champion: Louis Frolio, a technical trainer and former pastry chef, in November 2025.
In their words
"At Databricks, we're innovators, builders and truthseekers."
How we work
"Our culture principles unite us and guide everything we do"
Six principles emphasize customers, high standards, truth, first principles, action, and putting the company first.
Listen · a16z
The hard things about hiring executives
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi discuss executive failures, micromanagement, and who can write a playbook.
Ben Horowitz
Co-founder and General Partner, a16z; Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO, Databricks
Cultural principlesWe are customer obsessed · We raise the bar · We are truth seeking · We operate from first principles · We bias for action · We put the company first