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Databricks
AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013 Centicorn
Unified lakehouse platform powering enterprise data-AI convergence
Databricks mafia
Startups founded by Databricks alumni
Former Databricks employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Andy KonwinskiUnited States
Naveen RaoUnited States
Chris FreglyUnited States
Tawfeeq Abdul GaffoorCanada
Yun ZhangUnited States
Vinay WaghUnited States
Nihit DesaiUnited States
Ion StoicaUnited States
Varun MohanUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Databricks has talent and traffic
(526 of 15,029 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$9M patent portfolio · 90 active families
Where Databricks concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Databricks and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Databricks's 72 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Databricks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
72 deals across Databricks's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Databricks deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Databricks's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Databricks
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Databricks on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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