Industry Computer software CEO Ali Ghodsi (11 Jan 2016–) Headquarters San Francisco | Website databricks.com Founded 2013 | |
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Founders Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Reynold Xin | ||
Databricks is a company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, that aims to help clients with cloud-based big data processing using Spark. Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at University of California, Berkeley that was involved in making Apache Spark, a distributed computing framework built atop Scala. Databricks develops a web-based platform for working with Spark, that provides automated cluster management and IPython-style notebooks. In addition to building the Databricks platform, the company is co-organizing massive open online courses about Spark and runs the largest conference about Spark - Spark Summit.
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History
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Funding
In September 2013, Databricks announced that it had raised $13.9 million from Andreessen Horowitz and said it aimed to offer an alternative to Google's MapReduce system. In March 2014, Databricks certified Alpine Data Labs on Apache Spark. In June 2014, Databricks raised a $33 million Series B, led by New Enterprise Associates, along with additional investment from Series A investor Andreessen Horowitz. Databricks, founded by the team that created Spark, is closely involved with the development of Apache Spark, an open-source project incubated by the Apache Foundation. In 2016 the company raised additional $60 million, bringing the total funding to over a $100 million.