22. Databricks – TechRound

Company: Databricks

Co-Founders: Ali Ghodsi (also CEO), Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

Website: https://www.databricks.com/

About Databricks

Databricks is the data + AI company. Founded in 2013, with origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks’ solutions help drive organisations’ data and AI strategies. Today, the company is valued at $43bn, and over 10,000 organisations worldwide – including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 – rely on Databricks.

Databricks’ mission to democratise data and AI led to the company pioneering the data lakehouse architecture. This combined the data management structures of data warehouses, with the low-cost…