Databricks

The data and AI company

Databricks is the data and AI company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Headquartered in San Francisco with approximately 9,000 employees, Databricks has developed the industry's first unified Data Intelligence Platform that combines data warehousing, data lakes, and AI/ML workflows in a single platform. The company pioneered the data lakehouse architecture, which unifies data engineering, analytics, and AI on a single platform. With $2.6 billion in 2024 revenue and a valuation exceeding $43 billion, Databricks has become the central infrastructure layer for enterprise AI. Thousands of organizations, including over 300 Fortune 500 companies, use Databricks to build and deploy AI models, process massive datasets, and drive data-driven decisions. The company's open-source contributions including Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow are among the most widely adopted projects in the Apache and Linux Foundation ecosystems, making Databricks a foundational technology for the modern AI stack.