Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and AI platform company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, the widely used open-source data processing engine. The company's platform, known as the Lakehouse, combines data warehousing and data lake capabilities, and has expanded significantly into AI infrastructure through its Mosaic AI offering, which provides tools for training, fine-tuning, and deploying machine learning and generative AI models directly on enterprise data.
Led by co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, Databricks has grown into one of the largest privately held enterprise software companies, with a customer base spanning industries that depend heavily on large-scale data infrastructure, including financial services, healthcare, and retail, and has made several acquisitions to expand its AI development and governance capabilities.