Databricks | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
Databricks is a leading Data and AI company that provides a unified platform for data intelligence powered by generative AI. With...
Databricks is a leading Data and AI company that provides a unified platform for data intelligence powered by generative AI. With over 10,000 organizations, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, relying on its services, Databricks helps businesses manage, analyze, and leverage their data effectively. Founded by the creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and offers solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and data governance.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Size
5001-10,000 employees
Industry
Software Development
Specialities
Apache Spark, Apache Spark Training, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Data Science, Delta Lake, Data Lakehouse, MLflow, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Streaming, Open Source, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Data Management, Data Goverance, Generative AI, AI/ML Ops
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βοΈ Databricks Alternatives and Competitors β
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π€ Databricks Developer, Integration and Automation News β
π Databricks Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News β
ποΈ Databricks Product and Pricing News
- Databricks has integrated with MongoDB to enhance e-commerce search experiences using AI-augmented solutions.
- Domo has launched a new integration with Databricks, enabling writeback, federated queries, and direct access to AI models for enhanced business analytics.
- Twelve Labs has launched an Embed API in Open Beta that integrates with Databricks to generate advanced multimodal embeddings.
- Databricks has made Materialized Views and Streaming Tables generally available in Databricks SQL, offering improved data freshness and reduced costs.
- Databricks introduced Structured Outputs on Mosaic AI Model Serving, enabling JSON transformation of unstructured data with models like Llama and GPT-4 for batch generation and agent workflows.
- Databricks is enhancing its Unity Catalog with easy access controls and improving its AI-driven dashboards and developer experience for 2025 Q4.
- Databricks announced the general availability of Artie's connector to streamline data streaming for analytics and machine learning workloads.
- Metabase released a new official driver for Databricks, enabling quick connections and instant insights without manual configuration.
π Databricks CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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Chief AI Scientist[email protected]
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Chief Technology Advisor[email protected]
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Chief of Staff & AVP Field Operations[email protected]
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Chief Security Officer[email protected]
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Chief of Staff, People[email protected]
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Chief People Officer[email protected]
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Chief Technology Officer[email protected]
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Chief Revenue Officer[email protected]
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Chief Financial Officer[email protected]
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Chief Marketing Officer, Databricks[email protected]
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Vice President βͺ Field Engineering APJ[email protected]
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Vice President, Talent Acquisition[email protected]
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Vice President, Marketing[email protected]
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Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition, Databricks
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Senior Vice President & Deputy CIO, Databricks[email protected]
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Vice President of Architecture[email protected]
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President, Global Field Operations[email protected]
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CEO & Co-Founder[email protected]
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CTO for Neural Networks, Databricks[email protected]
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Field CTO[email protected]
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EMEA CTO[email protected]
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CTO & Cofounder[email protected]
βοΈ Databricks Alternatives and Competitors
- Snowflake |
- BigQuery |
- Redshift |
- Synapse Analytics |
- Spark |
- ClickHouse |
- Cloudera |
- SQL Server |
- MongoDB Atlas |
- MongoDB |
- Oracle Database |
- Oracle |
- Teradata Vantage |
- Dremio |
- H2O.ai |
- Azure Databricks |
- Apache Hadoop |
- MarkovML |
- Dataiku |
- KNIME |
- Chalk |
- Talend |
- DataRobot |
- Alteryx |
- RapidMiner |
- Domino |
- Mindtech
πΌ Databricks Hiring and Layoffs
- Ryan Colpaart has joined Databricks as Director, Enterprise Sales in the United States, previously serving as Vice President of Sales I West & Central at Dremio.
- Databricks is currently hiring a Staff IT Product Manager - GTM Systems in the United States.
- Juan TroytiΓ±o β has joined Databricks as Global Business Director in Spain, previously serving as Senior Client Partner at Hitachi Vantara.
- Phillip Wass has joined Databricks as Enterprise Account Director - Energy in the United Kingdom, previously holding a position at another company.
- Roeland Rutten Lewis has joined Databricks as Director, Enterprise Sales - Benelux in the Netherlands, previously serving as Sr. Sales Manager - Enterprise - Retail, Wholesale, CPG, Transportation & Logistics at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
π€ Databricks Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Stellantis has chosen Databricks to create a unified data platform for its 14 automotive brands, enhancing data governance and KPI tracking across the group.
- Databricks and Informatica are collaborating to enhance data management for enterprise AI applications by integrating Informatica's data management expertise with Databricks' AI-optimized data warehousing capabilities.
- Databricks has partnered with Glean to integrate Databricks AI/BI Genie, enabling users to query and analyze structured data using natural language within Glean.
- Databricks partners with Blackbird AI to enhance security and scalability for government organizations.
- Databricks partnered with MultiChoice Group on a migration project to build a scalable solution.
- Databricks collaborated with NYSE's ICE AI Center of Excellence to create a text-to-SQL application using Databricks Mosaic AI products, enabling business users to extract insights from structured data without needing to understand data models or SQL queries.
- Databricks is partnering with AVEVA to enhance AI use cases in industrial sectors, with a keynote featuring Matei Zaharia and Caspar Herzberg at AVEVA World 2024 in Paris next week.
- Databricks partners with AMD to use the MI 300 for AI workloads without software modification.
π Databricks Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Thrive Capital is in advanced talks to invest about $1 billion in Databricks, valuing the company at approximately $55 billion.
- Databricks Ventures has invested in Voyage AI to support their next-gen embedding and rerank models for Mosaic AI Model Serving.