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Databricks

San Francisco, CA Founded 2013

Provides a unified data intelligence platform spanning analytics, governance, warehousing, and AI workloads.

Data & AIdata and AI infrastructure
Domaindatabricks.com
Indexed investors3
Named founders5
Evidence policySource-linked
Products

What Databricks builds

A concise product map for orientation. Product availability, names, and positioning can change; use the company website for current specifications.

01

Data Intelligence Platform

Unified data, analytics and AI operating layer.

02

Unity Catalog

Governance for data and AI assets.

03

Mosaic AI

Tooling for building and operating generative-AI systems.

04

Lakehouse

Data warehousing and lake architecture in one platform.

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Principal founders & key executives

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Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder & CEO at DatabricksFounder & executive

Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder & CEO

Leads the company’s data-intelligence, lakehouse and AI platform strategy.

Matei Zaharia, Co-founder & Chief Technologist at DatabricksFounder & executive

Matei Zaharia

Co-founder & Chief Technologist

Originated Apache Spark and guides long-duration technical strategy.

Reynold Xin, Co-founder & Chief Architect at DatabricksFounder & executive

Reynold Xin

Co-founder & Chief Architect

Leads architecture across the company’s data and AI platform.

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Founding team

The people who started it

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