Claim 01 · Operating scope
Unified data, analytics and AI platform
Databricks documentation describes one platform spanning data engineering, warehousing, business intelligence, machine learning, generative AI and governance.
Private data and AI companyPROBABLEDeep dive
Databricks
COMPANY-DATABRICKS-001 · observed July 29, 2026
A founder-led enterprise data and AI company whose platform spans analytics, governed data, AI agents, model operations, business intelligence and operational databases.
Data and AI platformAI agentsData governanceOperational databasesOpen-source ecosystem
Evidence boundary
The July 2026 $188B value is attached to a signed funding term sheet that Databricks expected to close later in the summer. The amount was not disclosed in the cited announcement. The latest completed equity financing observation in this profile remains approximately $5B at a $134B valuation in February 2026.
Location and contact
Where to find Databricks.
Official presence
Website
databricks.com
Corporate phone
+1 866 330 0121
Contact sales
Official contact form
Customer support
Help Center
The official contact page does not publish a general-purpose public email address. The contact form and Help Center are the governed public channels.
Official company overview
2:20
Databricks in 3 minutes. The unified data and AI platform, explained.
DatabricksCOMPANY OVERVIEW
Private capital trajectory
Reported valuation observations
Discrete company-disclosed values attached to named financing events. The dashed guide connects observations for readability; it is not a market-price series or an interpolation.
$188B
latest disclosed
4×
verified points
Research thesis
What this company is in the AI economy.
Databricks is not only an Apache Spark commercialization company and it is not interchangeable with any single product. Its current operating system joins the Data + AI Platform, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Genie, Agent Bricks, Lakebase and a large open-source ecosystem. VibeCrowd preserves those products and projects as separate entities linked to one company identity.
Knowledge-bearing claims
Important assertions stay explainable.
Claim 02 · Founder-led company
Seven named co-founders
The current Databricks leadership page identifies seven co-founders and their present company roles instead of inferring founder identity from third-party databases.
Claim 03 · Latest valuation observation
$188B funding term sheet
Databricks announced a Coatue-led strategic financing term sheet at a $188B valuation on July 16, 2026. The round amount and closing remain unresolved in the cited source.
Claim 04 · Company-disclosed scale
20,000+ organizations
The July 2026 company announcement reports more than 20,000 customer organizations and 70% of the Fortune 500. These are first-party operating observations, not independently audited counts.
Claim 05 · AI operating surface
Agents, models, evaluation and governance
Current official materials connect Agent Bricks, MLflow, Genie and Unity Catalog across the development, evaluation, deployment and governance lifecycle.
Products and operating surfaces
Products are independent entities linked to the company. They are not aliases for the organization itself.
Unified enterprise platform
Databricks Data + AI Platform
The company-wide platform joining data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, AI applications and governance.
Data and AI governance
Unity Catalog
A unified governance layer for access control, discovery, lineage, auditing, quality and AI assets across Databricks workspaces.
ACTIVE
Enterprise AI agents
Agent Bricks
A product surface for building and operating production AI agents grounded in enterprise data.
Operational database
Lakebase
A serverless Postgres-compatible operational database positioned for AI applications and agents.
AI coworker and business intelligence
Genie
A family of governed AI experiences for asking questions, exploring analytics and acting on organizational data.
AI and ML lifecycle
Managed MLflow
A managed layer for tracking, evaluation, observability, model governance and production operation built around the open MLflow project.
ACTIVE
People
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and CEO
Databricks identifies Ghodsi as a co-founder and its current chief executive officer.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Ion Stoica
Co-founder and Executive Chair
The current founder registry identifies Stoica as co-founder and Executive Chair.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder and CTO
The current founder registry identifies Zaharia as co-founder and chief technology officer.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Reynold Xin
Co-founder and Chief Architect
The current founder registry identifies Xin as co-founder and chief architect.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Patrick Wendell
Co-founder and VP Engineering
The current founder registry identifies Wendell as co-founder and vice president of engineering.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder
Databricks lists Konwinski among the company’s seven co-founders.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder and SVP Field Engineering
The current founder registry identifies Tavakoli-Shiraji as co-founder and senior vice president of field engineering.
Open person profile
Photo: Databricks · Official company media
Explainable ecosystem
Relationships with a reason.
These are typed, source-backed relationships. Shared categories do not automatically become competitor claims.
3 governed edges
Origin entity
Databricks
Enterprise data and AI platform
3
edges
3
sources
Strategic partnership
Microsoft
The companies extended their strategic partnership into the 2030s across Azure infrastructure, Microsoft products, Genie and Unity AI Gateway.
Technology partnership
OpenAI
Databricks and OpenAI announced a multi-year partnership to make OpenAI models available through the Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks.
Capital participation
Coatue
Databricks named existing investor Coatue as the lead for its July 2026 strategic funding term sheet.
Material change over time
Partnership·
Microsoft partnership extended into the 2030s
The companies announced deeper Azure usage and native integration across Microsoft products, Genie and Unity AI Gateway.
Funding·
Strategic funding term sheet signed at $188B
Databricks announced a Coatue-led term sheet. The company did not disclose the round amount and said it expected a later close.
Funding·
Series L equity financing reached approximately $5B
Databricks announced approximately $5B of equity financing at a $134B valuation and about $2B of additional debt capacity.
Funding·
$1B Series K closing announced
The company said the Series K valued Databricks at more than $100B.
Funding·
Series J announced at a $62B valuation
Databricks announced a planned $10B financing and said $8.6B had been completed at the time of publication.
Founding·
Databricks founded
The company was founded by seven named creators and researchers from the Berkeley data-systems ecosystem.
Evidence chain
First-party sources prove attribution: what the organization reports about itself. They do not automatically prove every outcome or interpretation.
Official product material · E3
The scope of the Databricks platform
SRC-DBX-PLATFORM · Databricks Documentation
Official product material · E3 · 2026-07-07
What is Unity Catalog?
SRC-DBX-UNITY · Databricks Documentation
Official product material · E3 · 2026-06-30
MLflow 3 for GenAI
SRC-DBX-MLFLOW · Databricks Documentation
Official product material · E3 · 2026-07-20
Genie product documentation
SRC-DBX-GENIE · Databricks Documentation
Official leadership record · E3
Databricks founders and current roles
SRC-DBX-FOUNDERS · Databricks
Official leadership record · E3
Ali Ghodsi — CEO and Co-Founder
SRC-DBX-ALI · Databricks
Official company statement · E3 · 2024-12-17
Databricks is Raising $10B Series J Investment at $62B Valuation
SRC-DBX-SERIES-J · Databricks
Official company statement · E3 · 2025-09-08
Databricks Surpasses $4B Revenue Run-Rate
SRC-DBX-SERIES-K · Databricks via PR Newswire
Official company statement · E3 · 2026-02-09
Databricks completes approximately $5B of equity financing
SRC-DBX-SERIES-L-CLOSE · Databricks via PR Newswire
Official company statement · E3 · 2026-07-16
Databricks is Raising a Strategic Round at a $188B Valuation
SRC-DBX-STRATEGIC-2026 · Databricks
Official company statement · E3 · 2026-07-23
Databricks and Microsoft Expand Partnership
SRC-DBX-MICROSOFT-2026 · Databricks and Microsoft
Official company statement · E3 · 2025-09-25
Databricks and OpenAI Launch Enterprise AI Partnership
SRC-DBX-OPENAI-2025 · Databricks and OpenAI via PR Newswire
Official company statement · E3
Contact Databricks
SRC-DBX-CONTACT · Databricks
Official company media · E3
Databricks in 3 minutes. The unified data and AI platform, explained.
SRC-DBX-YOUTUBE-OVERVIEW · Databricks
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