Data Governance and Security for the AI Era: Databricks Ventures Invests in Theom

Our customers frequently highlight a critical challenge to AI adoption: ensuring sensitive data remains consistently governed and secured as it moves across data platforms, applications, and models. Traditional data security approaches that focus on infrastructure and access controls often struggle to keep pace with the rapid proliferation of data across multiple tools and platforms.

That’s why Databricks Ventures is pleased to announce our investment in the Series A funding round of Theom, one of our next-generation data governance partners. Theom’s AI-native Data Operations Center platform enables enterprises to govern and secure their data across lakehouse, cloud, PaaS, SaaS, and generative AI environments.

Databricks and Theom have been close partners for several years, working with sophisticated companies including JetBlue and Grammarly. Our investment underscores Databricks’ commitment to technology partners that help organizations leverage data and AI on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, while maintaining a strong security and governance posture.

Theom: Addressing The Data Security Challenge in the AI Era

The rapid spread of data across multiple platforms in an enterprise — from data lakehouses to SaaS applications to AI models — has led to significant blind spots in AI security and governance frameworks. In response, Theom is reimagining data and AI governance and security with a platform purpose-built for the modern data stack. Unlike traditional Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools, Theom’s Data Operations Center approaches security from a data-first perspective, analyzing user identity, actions, and intent to determine whether data usage complies with internal policies and external regulations.

Theom’s platform seamlessly integrates with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, along with other data platforms, whether in the cloud or on-prem — and with leading SaaS applications and generative AI tools. Theom builds on top of the governance capabilities provided by Databricks Unity Catalog and extends visibility into non-Databricks environments. This comprehensive integration approach provides enterprises with a single pane of glass across their entire data estate.

What’s Next: A Shared Vision for Secure, Governed Data

Databricks Ventures’ investment in Theom reflects our shared vision of enabling enterprises to leverage their data safely and effectively in the AI era. As organizations continue building data applications and AI solutions on the Data Intelligence Platform, Theom’s capabilities will help them maintain rigorous security and governance standards without compromising agility or innovation.

We’re excited to support Theom as they continue to help enterprises build secure, compliant foundations for the AI-driven future.  Come see us both at the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco in June!