Databricks

Databricks, founded in 2013 in San Francisco, provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform for data engineering, data science and machine learning, used by more than 15,000 organisations worldwide.

Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and artificial intelligence company founded in 2013 by the engineers and researchers who created Apache Spark at UC Berkeley. Its Data Intelligence Platform combines data engineering, data science and machine learning in a single environment built on a lakehouse architecture - a design that merges the data warehouse and the data lake into one source of truth for analytics work. The platform supports ETL pipelines, machine-learning model training and generative AI applications at scale.

The company's work is used by more than 15,000 organisations worldwide, including over 60% of the Fortune 500. Alongside its commercial platform, Databricks maintains a substantial open-source presence: it has contributed Delta Lake, MLflow and Unity Catalog to the community, and its founders' Apache Spark remains the foundation the company is built upon.

Databricks describes itself as mission-driven, with the aim of making data and AI accessible to everyone rather than only technical experts. It operates globally, with customers and partners worldwide, and has spent more than a decade building on a single technical foundation. The company was founded by engineers and researchers and retains an academic orientation alongside an ambitious, long-term building mindset.