Databricks Ventures
Investing in the future of data, analytics and AI

Databricks Ventures invests in innovative companies that share our view of the future for data, analytics and AI. Our inaugural initiative, the Lakehouse Fund, is focused on early and growth-stage companies that are extending the lakehouse ecosystem or using the lakehouse architecture to create the next generation of data and AI-powered companies.
Portfolio company benefits
Exclusive insight into the product roadmap and support for building deep technical integrations
Guidance and best practices from the network of Databricks mentors
Broader reach by partnering with Databricks go-to-market programs
Lakehouse Fund investment
focus
A shared vision to build the future of data, analytics and AI on the lakehouse architecture
Investments in early to growth-stage companies in partnership with a lead investor
Projects and entrepreneurs that share Databricks’ commitment to open source and building on open platforms, much like the Databricks Lakehouse
Our Portfolio
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions. It helps organizations transform raw data into actionable insights with its data intelligence platform that empowers users to find, understand, govern and use data collaboratively.
Arcion is a cloud-native, distributed CDC-based data replication platform that makes building real-time data pipelines simple. Arcion helps enterprises eliminate brittle pipelines and data silos.
Catalyst is the leading platform to drive growth through your customers. Trusted by top revenue leaders at global B2B brands, Catalyst guides sales and success teams to turn customers into your number one engine for growth.
dbt is a data transformation framework. Users can work directly within their data lakehouse or warehouse to quickly produce trusted data sets for reporting, ML modeling and operational workflows.
Hex is a platform for collaborative analytics and data science. Users can connect to data, analyze in a collaborative SQL and Python-powered notebook, and share work as interactive data apps that anyone can use.
Hightouch is a data activation platform that helps organizations unify customer profiles in the Lakehouse, and activate audiences across marketing channels. Together, Hightouch and Databricks form a Composable CDP.
The Hunters SOC platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEMs.
The Immuta Data Security Platform enables organizations to unlock value from their cloud data by protecting it and providing secure access. The platform provides sensitive data discovery, security and access control, and data activity monitoring.
Labelbox is building a collaborative training data platform that makes it easy to create and manage labeled data, enabling rapid deployment of AI applications.
Lovelytics, a leading Databricks consulting partner, provides enterprise data platform design, data science, cloud, data visualization, and AI services to enable organizations with better, deeper, and faster insights.
Matillion is the data productivity cloud that gets data business-ready, faster — with enterprise-scale load, transform, sync and orchestration — for insights, analytics, data science, machine learning and AI.
Neon is a modern, developer-friendly Postgres built for the cloud. Neon separates storage and compute to efficiently autoscale projects, support database branching and provide “bottomless” storage.
Perplexity advances the way people discover and share information using AI-powered search — providing instant answers and information on any topic, with up-to-date sources to help people discover, research and learn faster.
Revelate’s data fulfillment platform provides a suite of capabilities for data sharing and data commercialization for customers to fully realize the value of their data.
Snowplow’s Behavioral Data Platform enables organizations to generate first-party customer data with real-time event streaming into the lakehouse for machine learning-powered personalization and customer 360 applications.
Tecton, the machine learning feature platform company, enables data teams to build, centralize, share, and serve production-ready ML features for offline training and online inference, at scale.
FAQs
Depending on the size and stage of the investment, Databricks will provide unique access to product roadmap direction, technical integration support, and go-to-market support; access to Databricks mentors for guidance and best practices; and exposure in Databricks’ global go-to-market programs, including our Data + AI Summit series.

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