Series D+ · Founded 2013
Databricks
Data and AI platform built on the lakehouse architecture and open table formats.
Overview
Databricks approached the same market as Snowflake from the opposite direction: engineering and machine learning first, SQL analytics second. Open formats are its central strategic wedge against warehouse lock-in.
Key metrics
- ARR
- $3.2B
- Customers
- 12,000+
- Customers > $1M
- 590
- YoY growth
- +57%
Products
Timeline
2013
Founded
Spun out of the Apache Spark project at UC Berkeley.
2020
Lakehouse thesis
Positioned Delta Lake as the alternative to warehouse-plus-lake architectures.
2023
MosaicML acquisition
$1.3B deal brought model training capability in-house.
2026
Unity governance
Catalog governance extended across third-party engines.
Compensation at Databricks
Reported median total compensation by role.
| software engineer | $252k |
| data engineer | $246k |
| machine learning engineer | $271k |
| data scientist | $243k |