Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This round was led by Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures, with participation from new strategic partner Databricks Ventures. To get the story, I interviewed three investors: Robert (Tre) Sayle from Thoma Bravo, Greg Sands from Costanoa, and Andrew Ferguson from Databricks Ventures.

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Flipboard

APRIL 4, 2023

Perplexity AI , which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,” closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 22, 2024

This funding was led by prominent investors, including IVP, with additional contributions from NEA, Databricks Ventures, Nvidia, and notable figures such as Jeff Bezos, former Twitter VP Elad Gil, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch. In a recent funding round, the company secured $73.6

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ODSC - Open Data Science

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Companies like Databricks, Snowflake, and Palantir have all been hiring aggressively in recent months, filling in where the large companies have let go of labor and are proving to be a place where workers enjoy. Many either are better insulated from the change of consumer spending or have venture capital to lean on. What Can Be Done?

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

” — Ali Ghodsi , co-founder and CEO of Databricks In fact, you might never fully feel PMF: “ I never felt at any point of time like, ah, now I have product-market fit. Eventually, at some point you become a multi-product company, so then the whole game repeats itself again and again and again.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The State of the Cloud 2022 report by Bessemer Venture Partners offers an explanation. When the term first debuted, just 14 companies were unicorns. Today, there are more than 1,000, with Alation joining the unicorn herd in June 2021. Why are we seeing more unicorns? We focus on what we do best and our partners focus on what they do best.

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Snorkel AI

MAY 24, 2023

DJ Patil , general partner at GreatPoint Ventures, will have a fireside chat with Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner. Matei Zaharia is co-founder and Chief Technologist at Databricks as well as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Patil served as the first U.S. He is also the creator of Apache Spark.

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Snorkel AI

MAY 24, 2023

DJ Patil , general partner at GreatPoint Ventures, will have a fireside chat with Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner. Matei Zaharia is co-founder and Chief Technologist at Databricks as well as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Patil served as the first U.S. He is also the creator of Apache Spark.

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Alation

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re thrilled to share that Alation is now available on Databricks Partner Connect. Now Databricks Premium or Enterprise customers can experience a 14-day trial of Alation, and connect their Databricks workspace. Our latest product integrations include Databricks Unity Catalog and end-to-end lineage.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

JANUARY 11, 2024

This was a venture between Microsoft and ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Databricks Introduces Dolly 2.0: Artificial Intelligence is Coming to Microsoft’s Search Engine Bing Software giant Microsoft added some incredible enhancements to its search engine Bing with a focus on artificial intelligence capabilities.

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