Databricks

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Location San Francisco, CA
Founded 2013
Latest Stage Strategic
Total Raised $23B+
Website https://www.databricks.com
Sector
data-analytics artificial-intelligence cloud-infrastructure big-data

Investors

Ron Conway early backer (2014)
Matthew Ocko Early (2014)
John Curtius Growth (2019)
Philippe Laffont ~2021 (2021)
Chase Coleman III Private (2020)
Neil Mehta Series G ($1B) (2021)
Joshua Kushner Growth (2022)
Albert Chiang Series G (2021)
Josh Wolfe 2023 (2023)
Benny Peretz Unknown (2021)
Ben Horowitz Series A (2013)
Marc Stad Series F (2019)
Katelin Holloway Angel (2019)
Everett Randle ~2023 (2023)
Will Griffith Late-stage (2024)
SV Angel growth (2019)
DCVC Early (2014)
Cedar Capital Group Growth (2019)
Coatue Management ~2021 (2021)
Tiger Global Management Private (2020)
Greenoaks Capital Series G ($1B) (2021)
Thrive Capital Growth (2022)
Octahedron Capital Series G (2021)
Lux Capital 2023 (2023)
Greenoaks Capital Series G ($1B) (2021)
Andreessen Horowitz Series A (2013)
dragoneer Series F (2019)
Seven Seven Six Angel (2019)
Benchmark ~2023 (2023)
ICONIQ Growth Late-stage (2024)
Insight Partners
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Coatue Management Strategic (2026)

Founders

Ali Ghodsi CEO
Ion Stoica Co-founder, Executive Chairman
Matei Zaharia Co-founder, CTO (former)
Patrick Wendell Co-founder
Reynold Xin Co-founder
Andy Konwinski Co-founder
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Co-founder

About

Databricks was founded in 2013 by seven UC Berkeley researchers: Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji 1. The company was created to commercialize Apache Spark, an open-source distributed computing project developed at UC Berkeley 1. Ali Ghodsi, the CEO, is a Swedish-American computer scientist who joined UC Berkeley in 2009 as a visiting scholar, where he co-authored influential papers on Apache Spark and Apache Mesos 2. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, California 1. The company pioneered the “lakehouse” architecture combining data lakes and data warehouses, and has grown rapidly, surpassing $5.4 billion in revenue run-rate by 2025 3. Ron Conway invested in Databricks through A.Capital, an early-stage venture firm he founded in 2014, and SV Angel’s growth fund also includes Databricks in its portfolio through Ashvin Bachireddy’s involvement via Geodesic Capital 4 5.

Funding History

Round Date Amount Valuation Lead Investor Key Co-Investors
Series A 2013-09-25 $13.9M $44M Andreessen Horowitz (Ben Horowitz, board) — 61829
Series B 2014-06-30 $33M Not publicly disclosed New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Andreessen Horowitz 72122
Series C 2016-12-15 $60M Not disclosed New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Andreessen Horowitz 82324
Series D 2017-08-22 $140M Not officially disclosed (Forbes reported the company “sought a valuation in the ballpark of $900 million”) Andreessen Horowitz NEA, Battery Ventures, Future Fund Investment Co., A.Capital Partners, Geodesic Capital, Green Bay Ventures 9303132
Series E Feb 2019 $250M $2.75B Andreessen Horowitz Coatue Management, Microsoft, NEA, Battery Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Geodesic 10
Series F Oct 2019 $400M $6.2B Andreessen Horowitz Alkeon Capital, BlackRock, Coatue, Dragoneer, Geodesic, Green Bay Ventures, Microsoft, NEA, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global 11
Series G Feb 2021 $1B $28B Franklin Templeton CPP Investments, Fidelity, Whale Rock, AWS, CapitalG, Salesforce Ventures, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Coatue, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global 12
Series H Aug 2021 $1.6B $38B Morgan Stanley (Counterpoint Global) Baillie Gifford, ClearBridge, UC Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, CPP Investments, Coatue, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, GIC, T. Rowe Price 13
Series I 2023-09-14 $500M+ $43B T. Rowe Price Capital One Ventures, Ghisallo Capital, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, NVIDIA (new); Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, ClearBridge, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, GIC, Octahedron Capital, Tiger Global (existing) 142526
Series J 2024-12-17 $10B $62B Thrive Capital Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, GIC, Insight Partners, WCM Investment Management, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, ICONIQ Growth, MGX, Sands Capital, Wellington Management 151920
Series K 2025-09-08 $1B $100B+ Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital, WCM Investment Management (co-leads) Existing strategic investors 162728
Series L Dec 2025 $4B+ $134B Insight Partners, Fidelity, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, GIC, MGX, NEA, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Robinhood Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Temasek, Thrive Capital 17
Strategic 2026-07-16 ~$3B (term sheet signed, expected close summer 2026) $188B Coatue Management Additional new and existing investors (not disclosed) 333435

What Investors Say

“If you want to build competitive advantage using Artificial Intelligence and you are not Google or Facebook, Databricks is essential. We’ve looked at every solution on the market and nothing else comes close.” – Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Series D announcement, August 22, 2017 931

Ben Horowitz has also spoken about co-founder Matei Zaharia, calling him one of the “best distributed systems people out of academia in the last 10 years,” and stating that between Zaharia’s talent and the team’s work on Apache Spark, he would have invested “should they have had no plan at all” 18.

What Founders Say

“Facebook said they could predict couples breaking up in advance using machine learning, and we thought, wow, that’s amazing technology. We wanted to democratize that and bring it to every company on the planet.” – Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder 2

“The same first-principles thinking that created Spark… Don’t optimize the existing thing. Go back to fundamentals and build the right system.” – Ali Ghodsi, on Databricks’ product philosophy 2

“Enterprises are moving from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing. They don’t want to burn expensive tokens on the smartest model for every task — they want the best outcome per dollar.” – Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO, in the Databricks press release announcing the July 16, 2026 strategic round at a $188B valuation 33

Sources

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  2. KITRUM, “How Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, Revolutionized Data and AI,” accessed March 2026. https://kitrum.com/blog/the-inspiring-story-ali-ghodsi-ceo-of-databricks/↩↩↩

  3. Databricks press release, “Databricks Grows >65% YoY, Surpasses $5.4 Billion Revenue Run-Rate,” accessed March 2026. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-grows-65-yoy-surpasses-5-4-billion-revenue-run-rate↩

  4. Market Realist, “Angel Investor Ron Conway’s Net Worth After Decades of Investments,” accessed March 2026. https://marketrealist.com/p/ron-conway-net-worth/↩

  5. SV Angel website, “Team,” accessed March 2026. https://svangel.com/about/team↩

  6. Databricks press release (via search results), “Databricks raises $13.9M Series A,” September 2013. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom↩

  7. Bigeye, “A brief history of Databricks,” accessed March 2026. https://www.bigeye.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-databricks↩

  8. Databricks press release, “Databricks Raises $60 Million in Series C Funding,” December 2016. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-60-million-series-c-funding-advance-data-science-engineering-scale↩

  9. Databricks press release, “Databricks Secures $140 Million to Accelerate Analytics and Artificial Intelligence,” August 2017. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-secures-140-million-accelerate-analytics-artificial-intelligence-enterprise↩↩

  10. Databricks press release, “Databricks’ $250 Million Funding Supports Explosive Growth,” February 2019. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-250-million-funding-supports-explosive-growth-and-global-demand-for-unified-analytics-brings-valuation-to-2-75-billion↩

  11. Databricks press release, “Databricks’ Growth Draws $400 Million Series F Investment,” October 2019. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-growth-draws-400-million-series-f-investment-and-6-2-billion-valuation↩

  12. Databricks press release, “Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation,” February 2021. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-1-billion-series-g-investment-at-28-billion-valuation↩

  13. Databricks press release, “Databricks Raises $1.6 Billion Series H Investment at $38 Billion Valuation,” August 2021. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-1-6-billion-series-h-investment-at-38-billion-valuation↩

  14. Databricks press release, “Databricks Raises Series I Investment at $43B Valuation,” September 2023. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-series-i-investment-43b-valuation↩

  15. Databricks press release, “Databricks is Raising $10B Series J Investment at $62B Valuation,” December 2024. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raising-10b-series-j-investment-62b-valuation↩

  16. Databricks press release, “Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100 billion valuation,” August 2025. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raising-series-k-investment-100-billion-valuation↩

  17. TechCrunch, “Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up,” December 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/databricks-raises-4b-at-134b-valuation-as-its-ai-business-heats-up/↩

  18. Fortune, “How Databricks became an A.I. sensation,” March 2023. https://fortune.com/2023/03/02/databricks-ben-horowitz-data-cloud-startup/↩↩

  19. PR Newswire, “Databricks is Raising $10B Series J Investment at $62B Valuation,” December 17, 2024. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/databricks-is-raising-10b-series-j-investment-at-62b-valuation-302333822.html↩

  20. Fenwick & West, “Fenwick Represents Databricks in its $10B Series J Financing,” December 2024. https://www.fenwick.com/insights/experience/fenwick-represents-databricks-in-its-10-billion-series-j-financing↩

  21. Databricks blog, “Databricks Unveils Apache Spark-Based Cloud Platform; Announces Series B Funding,” June 30, 2014, accessed May 2026. https://www.databricks.com/blog/2014/06/30/databricks-unveils-spark-based-cloud-platform.html — Company’s own announcement confirming the $33M Series B led by NEA with Andreessen Horowitz follow-on, dated June 30, 2014. ↩

  22. TechCrunch, “Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data,” June 30, 2014, accessed May 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/databricks-snags-33m-in-series-b-and-debuts-cloud-platform-for-processing-big-data/ — Contemporaneous press confirming $33M Series B led by NEA with Andreessen Horowitz participation, on June 30, 2014. ↩

  23. TechCrunch, “Databricks raises $60 million to be big data’s next great leap forward,” December 15, 2016, accessed July 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/15/databricks-raises-60-million-to-be-big-datas-next-great-leap-forward/ — Contemporaneous press confirming $60M Series C led by NEA with Andreessen Horowitz on December 15, 2016. ↩

  24. SiliconANGLE, “Big Data software startup Databricks pockets $60 million in Series C funding,” December 15, 2016, accessed July 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2016/12/15/databricks-pockets-60-million-series-c-funding-round/ — Contemporaneous press confirming December 15, 2016 date, $60M raise, NEA lead, Andreessen Horowitz participation, and total funding to date of $107.5M. ↩

  25. TechCrunch, “Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom,” September 14, 2023, accessed July 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/databricks-raises-500m-more-boosting-valuation-to-43b-despite-late-stage-gloom/ — Contemporaneous press confirming September 14, 2023 announcement of $500M+ Series I at $43B valuation with T. Rowe Price, NVIDIA, Capital One, a16z, Tiger Global among participants. ↩

  26. Forbes, “Top IPO Prospect Databricks Scores $43 Billion Valuation Thanks To $500 Million Funding Round Including AI Titan Nvidia,” September 14, 2023, accessed July 2026. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/09/14/top-ipo-prospect-databricks-scores-43-billion-valuation-thanks-to-500-million-funding-round-including-ai-titan-nvidia/ — Contemporaneous press confirming T. Rowe Price as lead investor, $500M raise, $43B valuation, new investors NVIDIA and Capital One, existing investors a16z and Tiger Global. ↩

  27. The SaaS News, “Databricks Raises $1B Series K at $100B+ Valuation,” September 2025, accessed July 2026. https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/databricks-raises-1b-series-k-at-100b-valuation/ — Contemporaneous press confirming $1B Series K co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital, and WCM Investment Management at >$100B valuation. ↩

  28. Tech Company News, “Databricks Raises $1 Billion In Series K Funding Round,” September 2025, accessed July 2026. https://www.techcompanynews.com/databricks-raises-1-billion-in-series-k-funding-round/ — Contemporaneous press confirming Series K closing on September 8, 2025 at $1B equity with a16z, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital, and WCM Investment Management as lead investors, following August 19, 2025 term sheet. ↩

  29. Derrick Harris, GigaOM, “Databricks raises $14M from Andreessen Horowitz, wants to take on MapReduce with Spark,” September 25, 2013, accessed July 2026. https://gigaom.com/2013/09/25/databricks-raises-14m-from-andreessen-horowitz-wants-to-take-on-mapreduce-with-spark/ — Contemporaneous press confirming the exact announcement date of September 25, 2013 for the $13.9M ($14M rounded) Series A led solely by Andreessen Horowitz at a $44M post-money valuation, with Ben Horowitz joining the board. Ben Horowitz cited by the article as the sole institutional check-writer; no other participants disclosed. (Original GigaOM article now hosted at portal.gigaom.com.) ↩

  30. Fortune (Jonathan Vanian), “AI Startup Databricks Nabs $140M, Led by Andreessen Horowitz,” August 22, 2017, accessed July 2026. https://fortune.com/2017/08/22/databricks-ai-startup/ — Contemporaneous press confirming the exact August 22, 2017 announcement date for the $140M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz, with NEA, Battery Ventures, Future Fund, A.Capital, Geodesic Capital, and Green Bay Ventures participating. Total funding to date noted as $247M. ↩

  31. Forbes (Alex Konrad), “Databricks Raises $140M From Top VCs In Mission To Bring AI To ‘The 99%’,” August 22, 2017, accessed July 2026. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/22/databricks-raises-140m-for-ai/ — Contemporaneous press confirming August 22, 2017 date and $140M raise. Reports Databricks “sought a valuation in the ballpark of $900 million” but “didn’t disclose its valuation after the new raise.” Contains the Ben Horowitz quote used above in “What Investors Say.” ↩↩

  32. SiliconANGLE, “Big data firm Databricks raises massive $140M funding led by Andreessen Horowitz,” August 22, 2017, accessed July 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2017/08/22/big-data-firm-databricks-raises-massive-140m-funding-led-andreessen-horowitz/ — Contemporaneous press confirming the August 22, 2017 date, $140M amount, a16z as lead, and named participants NEA, Battery Ventures, Future Fund Investment Co., A.Capital Partners, Geodesic Capital, and Green Bay Ventures. No post-money valuation disclosed. ↩

  33. Databricks press release, “Databricks is Raising a Strategic Round of Funding at a $188 Billion Valuation,” July 16, 2026, accessed July 20, 2026. https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raising-strategic-round-funding-188-billion-valuation — Company’s own announcement of a strategic round at $188B valuation led by Coatue, term sheet signed with expected close later in summer 2026. Includes Ali Ghodsi quote on “tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing.” ↩↩

  34. TechCrunch (Marina Temkin), “Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act,” July 17, 2026, accessed July 20, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorite-second-act/ — Contemporaneous press confirming ~$3B strategic round at $188B valuation led by Coatue Management, up from $134B in February 2026. ↩

  35. Bloomberg, “Coatue Leads Databricks Funding at $188 Billion Valuation,” July 17, 2026, accessed July 20, 2026. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/coatue-leads-databricks-funding-round-at-188-billion-valuation — Contemporaneous press confirming Coatue as lead and $188B post-money valuation. ↩