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The Data and AI Company — Data Intelligence Platform
HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2013 | Employees: 8,000+ | Stage: Late Stage VC - Decacorn | Website: https://www.databricks.com
Databricks was founded in 2013 in San Francisco by seven UC Berkeley AMPLab researchers — Ali Ghodsi (CEO), Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark), Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji — who commercialized Apache Spark, the open-source distributed computing engine they built to replace MapReduce. Initially a managed Spark service, the company pioneered the Lakehouse architecture with Delta Lake (2019), an open storage layer that combines the scale of data lakes with the reliability of warehouses, and Photon, a vectorized SQL engine that made Databricks SQL competitive with Snowflake. Strategic acquisitions accelerated its AI and data agenda: MosaicML ($1.3B in June 2023) for generative AI model training and the Mosaic AI stack, and Neon ($
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