Who Owns Databricks?
Updated onExplore the ownership hierarchy of Databricks. See parent companies, holding structures, and ultimate controllers.
Ownership Chain
Databricks
Cloud data and AI platform that popularized the 'data lakehouse' for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
Databricks appears to be independent with no known parent company.
Databricks
Cloud data and AI platform that popularized the 'data lakehouse' for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
Databricks appears to be independent with no known parent company.
Major Shareholders
Databricks
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
Ali Ghodsi Co‑founder and CEO of Databricks; widely regarded as one of the company’s largest individual shareholders. Exact stake is not publicly disclosed. | Founder | — | — |
Ion Stoica Co‑founder and executive chairman; retains a significant equity position as a founding shareholder, but no public filings disclose his exact stake. | Founder | — | — |
Matei Zaharia Co‑founder and key technical leader behind Apache Spark; significant founding shareholder with an undisclosed exact percentage. | Founder | — | — |
Reynold Xin Co‑founder and senior technical executive; significant founding shareholder, but exact ownership percentage is not public. | Founder | — | — |
Andy Konwinski Co‑founder and early executive; holds founder equity in Databricks, though no precise stake is disclosed publicly. | Founder | — | — |
Patrick Wendell Co‑founder and engineering leader; significant founding shareholder with no publicly reported ownership percentage. | Founder | — | — |
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Co‑founder (often cited as Arsalan Tavakoli); significant founding shareholder, but his exact stake has not been disclosed. | Founder | — | — |
Andreessen Horowitz Venture capital firm; led Databricks’ Series D, E and F rounds and later co‑led the $10B Series J and participated in the 2025 Series L, making it a long‑standing major shareholder. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Early venture backer; participated in major rounds including Series D, E, F and G and is listed among institutional investors in later financings, implying a sizable minority stake. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
Insight Partners Growth equity firm; co‑led the $10B Series J in 2024 and helped lead subsequent Series K and L rounds, indicating a large late‑stage position in Databricks. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Asset manager; led the $500M Series I at a $43B valuation and appears as an investor in multiple earlier and later rounds, suggesting a major crossover shareholder position. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
Franklin Templeton Led the $1B Series G round at a $28B valuation in 2021 and continued as an investor in later financings, making it a significant institutional shareholder. | Institutional | — | Sep 2023 |
Morgan Stanley – Counterpoint Global Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global fund led the $1.6B Series H at a $38B valuation, taking a major institutional stake; later rounds likely diluted but did not eliminate its position. | Institutional | — | Aug 2021 |
Thrive Capital Growth investor; led the $10B Series J at a $62B valuation and is cited as a key backer again in subsequent mega‑rounds, implying a substantial late‑stage stake. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
Fidelity Management & Research Company Large asset manager; an investor since at least Series G/H and a lead investor in the 2025 Series L round, making it one of the largest current institutional shareholders. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Became a lead investor in the 2025 Series L round that valued Databricks at about $134B, indicating a sizeable recent ownership stake. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
Tiger Global Management Hedge fund and crossover investor; participated in multiple large financings including Series F, G, H and I, suggesting a meaningful but undisclosed minority stake. | Institutional | — | Sep 2023 |
GIC (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund; invested in Series H, I, J and L, making it one of Databricks’ largest long‑term sovereign/institutional shareholders. | Government | — | Dec 2025 |
BlackRock, Inc. Funds managed by BlackRock have invested from at least Series F and H through the 2025 Series L round, indicating a significant crossover public‑markets stake in Databricks. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Teachers’ Venture Growth (Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) joined as an investor by Series I and is highlighted again in Series J and L, implying a meaningful long‑term pension‑fund holding. | Institutional | — | Dec 2025 |
NVIDIA Corporation Strategic corporate investor; joined as a new investor in the 2023 Series I round and is cited as a key AI hardware and platform partner. | Corporate | — | Sep 2023 |
Microsoft Corporation Strategic investor and cloud partner; invested in Series E, F and G and collaborates on Azure Databricks, implying a continuing equity stake. | Corporate | — | Feb 2021 |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud subsidiary of Amazon; became a new strategic investor in the $1B Series G round in 2021, taking a direct equity stake alongside large institutional funds. | Corporate | — | Feb 2021 |
CapitalG (Alphabet growth equity fund) Alphabet’s growth equity fund; invested as a new strategic backer in the 2021 Series G round, giving Alphabet indirect equity exposure to Databricks. | Corporate | — | Feb 2021 |
Salesforce Ventures Salesforce’s corporate venture arm; joined as a new strategic investor in the 2021 Series G financing, taking a minority stake alongside other strategics. | Corporate | — | Feb 2021 |
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