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Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
San Francisco, United States
Countries of investment
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • India
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Singapore
  • Serbia
  • Croatia
  • Denmark
  • Spain
  • France
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • South Korea
  • Switzerland
  • Mexico
  • Saudi Arabia
Investment stages
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C
  • Growth
Industries
  • Enterprise Software
  • Data Infrastructure
  • AI
  • Analytics
  • Cloud Platforms
About
Databricks Ventures strategically invests in early- and growth-stage companies revolutionizing data intelligence, analytics, and AI atop open lakehouse platforms, delivering exclusive product roadmap access, deep technical integrations, mentor guidance from industry experts, and amplified go-to-market reach to foster the next generation of data-driven innovators.
Min check size
$1M
Max check size
$10M
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Investment Thesis

Databricks Ventures invests in early- to growth-stage innovators advancing data intelligence, analytics, and AI on open lakehouse platforms, providing founders with deep technical collaboration, roadmap insight, go-to-market support, and ecosystem partnerships.
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Co Invest
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Manager's Experience

Operated by experienced data and AI entrepreneurs and investors with strong backgrounds in enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and scaling developer-first platforms globally.

Databricks Ventures Contacts Information

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Team

Ali Ghodsi - Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ion Stoica - Co-founder & Executive Chairman

Matei Zaharia - Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Patrick Wendell - Co-founder & Vice President of Engineering

Reynold Xin - Co-founder & Chief Architect

Andy Konwinski - Co-founder & Vice President of Product Management

Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji - Co-founder & Senior Vice President of Field Engineering

Andy Kofoid - President

Global Field Operations

David Conte - Chief Financial Officer

Amy Reichanadter - Chief People Officer

Portfolio

Agency

Alation

Anomalo

Anvilogic

Arcion

Catalyst

Celebal Technologies

Cleanlab

Cube

Datapao

dbt

Entrada

Gable

Galileo

Glean

Hex

Hightouch

Hunters SOC platform

Immuta

Inception

Indicium

Koantek

Labelbox

LanceDB

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Lovelytics

Matillion

Mistral AI

Neon

Noma Security

Omni

Perplexity

Prophecy

Snowplow

SuperAnnotate

Tahoe Therapeutics

Tecton

Theom

Twelve Labs

Unstructured

Voyage AI

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