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Databricks

Data and AI company built around Apache Spark for analytics and machine learning.

Private 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2013 San Francisco USA Data & Analytics
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Founders

7
A
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO
 A
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder
 A
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder
 I
Ion Stoica
Co-founder
 M
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & CTO
 P
Patrick Wendell
Co-founder
 R
Reynold Xin
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Databricks’s founders.

UC Berkeley McKinsey & Company Conviva

The Databricks diaspora

4 companies

People who worked at or founded Databricks and went on to start their own companies.

Lineage of DatabricksDatabricksDatabricksIon StoicaIon StoicaArenaArenaAnyscaleAnyscaleAndy KonwinskiAndy KonwinskiPerplexity AIPerplexity AIMatei ZahariaMatei ZahariaApache SparkApache Spark
The Databricks lineage graph — click any node to keep exploring.
A 1 founded
Perplexity AI 2022
I 2 founded
Arena 1973 Anyscale 2019
M 1 founded
Apache Spark 2014

Acquisitions

1
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Artificial Intelligence · USA
AcquiredFounded 2021

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