Databricks Headlines

Forbes

Forbes reports on the biggest-ever Cal Athletics sponsorship deal, funded by Databricks, the $190 billion company founded by Berkeley researchers. It covers Databricks' sponsorship and its UC Berkeley ties.

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BigDATAwire

Helix announced a partnership with Databricks to launch Helix Research Workspaces, a Trusted Research Environment built natively on the Databricks Data + AI platform, giving researchers governed access to over 550,000 clinicogenomic records.

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Fortune

Fortune profiles Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi's meeting and calendar philosophy, describing how he compresses his schedule to focus on the company's biggest bottlenecks while scaling the $190 billion firm.

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Axios

Databricks has acquired spreadsheet startup RowZero, its first acquisition tied to the newly unveiled Genie AI co-worker platform. Co-founder Patrick Wendell confirmed the deal exclusively to Axios Pro.

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Databricks Newsroom

Databricks today announced it has acquired Row Zero, the spreadsheet built for humans and agents to work together with data. The acquisition will expand the capabilities of Genie, Databricks’ AI coworker, which helps business teams turn data into trusted answers and actions.

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Bloomberg

In a Bloomberg Tech interview, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi argues that AI's existential risk is 'close to zero' while warning about growing cybersecurity threats and explaining the company's decision to stay private for now.

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Databricks announced new AI programmes with EDB and IMDA to train 20,000 people in data and AI skills and launched a Singapore Startup AI Accelerator for early-stage companies. The partnership supports Singapore's National AI Strategy and expands Databricks' local technical teams.

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Databricks announced plans to invest more than US$350 million in Singapore over three years, quadrupling its local headquarters and doubling its workforce to over 500 employees. The commitment supports demand for Lakebase, Genie and Unity Gateway and Singapore's National AI Strategy.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal reports that Databricks has invested more than $1 billion in Asia as the company's growth accelerates. The piece covers Databricks' regional expansion strategy.

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PitchBook

PitchBook's initiation report examines how Databricks became an enterprise AI operating layer, benchmarking it against Snowflake and assessing whether its $190 billion valuation is justified.

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PitchBook

PitchBook analyzes Databricks' $190 billion valuation, citing a new report arguing the data and AI company is a high-quality business but an unattractive investment at its current price.

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Databricks Blog

Databricks introduces Governance Hub, an agentic account-level experience that provides unified data governance, AI usage, and cost insights and recommendations across an organization's entire Databricks estate.

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The Next Web

Databricks closed a $5 billion round at a $190 billion valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate above $7 billion and more than 80% year-over-year growth.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch details how Databricks initially sought $1 billion but investor demand reached $15 billion, leading to a $5 billion round at a $190 billion valuation.

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CNBC

Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, after surpassing $7 billion in revenue run rate with over 80% year-over-year growth.

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SiliconANGLE

Databricks announced it raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, after annualized recurring revenue grew over 80% year-over-year to above $7 billion.

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Databricks Newsroom

Databricks announced it surpassed a $7 billion revenue run-rate with >80% year-over-year growth and closed a $5 billion strategic funding round led by Coatue at a $190 billion valuation. The investment will drive innovation across Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway.

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InfoWorld

Databricks is acquiring Electric to embed local WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into agentic applications, reducing latency for AI agents that need to access centralized databases.

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Forbes

Forbes covers Databricks' $5 billion raise at a $190 billion valuation and an exclusive interview with CEO Ali Ghodsi, who argues that AGI has already arrived.

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Databricks Blog

Databricks announces its acquisition of Electric.

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Microsoft Newsroom

The Linux Foundation joined Cisco, Dell Technologies, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and other industry signatories in an open letter which makes the case that open weight models are an essential part of the foundation for secure, universally accessible and innovative AI . The letter argues that the right response to the real risks of open weights is a stronger open ecosystem rather than prohibition, and that policymakers should encourage rather than restrict frontier open models.

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TechCrunch

Databricks announced a new funding round at a $188 billion valuation, reportedly raising roughly $3 billion led by Coatue.

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Techzine

Nokia and Databricks completed a trial of a unified data platform for autonomous networks, addressing data fragmentation in telecom.

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GlobeNewswire

Nokia and Databricks completed a proof of concept for a unified data platform for autonomous telecom networks, enabling AI-driven operations.

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Bain & Company

Bain provides analysis of Databricks' Data + AI Summit announcements, arguing the lakehouse is evolving into an agentic enterprise control plane.

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