Databricks

High88% confidenceProfile verified Jul 28, 2026

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Chokepoint Score

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Steady

Momentum

driven mostly by hiring, up 14 since last check

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, USA

Website

www.databricks.com

Employees

7,000 (2025, approximate)

Founded

2013

Listing

private

Overview

Databricks is a private data and AI platform company built around the 'lakehouse' architecture, widely used by enterprises to build and deploy machine learning and generative AI applications on their own data. Databricks was founded around the 'lakehouse' data architecture, later becoming a major enterprise AI platform. Databricks announced a strategic funding round valuing the company at $188 billion, up from $134 billion in its December 2025 round, after topping a $6.9 billion annualized revenue run rate.

Strategic Connections

Mistral AI: Databricks has invested in and integrated with Mistral AI's open models on its platform.
Replit: Databricks Ventures participated in Replit's $400 million Series D round, which tripled Replit's valuation to $9 billion.
Cloudflare: Databricks integrated Delta Sharing with Cloudflare R2, combining Cloudflare's global network and zero-egress storage with Databricks' data processing capabilities.
NVIDIA: Databricks runs machine learning workloads on NVIDIA GPUs across major cloud providers.
OpenAI: Databricks expanded its OpenAI partnership at the 2026 Data + AI Summit, letting enterprises use OpenAI's latest models alongside their own data on Databricks — a roughly $100 million contract, smaller than Snowflake's competing $200 million OpenAI deal.

+3 more connections in the Full Analyst Report.

Strategic Risks

Intense competition from cloud-native data platforms
Remains a private company with no public financial reporting
Enterprise data migration complexity

Future Outlook

Continued growth in enterprise generative AI tooling
Possible future public listing

Sources

2 sources, 79% average source confidence — full citations in the Full Analyst Report.

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