Databricks was founded in 2013 by Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, and Reynold Xin. In September 2023, Forbes reported that the company had a $500M funding round from Al Titan Nvidia. This funding round brought Databricks to a valuation of $43 billion. Despite the financial growth reported by Forbes, they have not officially endorsed a plan to participate in an IPO.
Databricks is an engineering and analytic software company based on AI technology. Per Forge data, Databricks has raised a total of $4.2 billion in funding over 12 rounds, with their latest funding on Sep 14, 2023, from a Series I round. Key investors include Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton Investments, and In-Q-Tel.
These comments should not be interpreted to mean that the company is formally pursuing or foregoing an IPO.
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Databricks is used for processing and transforming massive quantities of data and exploring the data through machine learning models.
Databricks was founded by Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.
Date | Funding Round | Funding Raised | Price per Share | Last Known Valuation |
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9/14/2023 | Series I | $550MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
8/31/2021 | Series H | $1.63B raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
2/1/2021 | Series G | $1.03B raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
10/22/2019 | Series F | $408.01MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
2/5/2019 | Series E | $250MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
8/22/2017 | Series D | $140MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
12/15/2016 | Series C | $60.37MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
6/30/2014 | Series B | $34.14MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |
9/25/2013 | Series A | $14MM raised | $XXX.XX | $XXX.XX |