How much will the changing valuation profile of software companies impact the highest-flying private unicorns? Also, why hasn’t Databricks gone public yet? The answer to the former might be the answer ...

TechCrunch recently covered Databricks’ financial performance in 2020, contrasting its recent performance to some historical 2019 data that the company shared. The data-and-analysis-focused unicorn ...

Arsalan Tavakoli was at his bachelor party in 2013 when Ali Ghodsi, a computer science researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, pulled him aside. The two had become colleagues and friends ...

Founders: Ali Ghodsi (CEO), Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Launched: 2013 Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $1.8 billion Valuation ...

When Bloomberg recently disclosed Databricks Inc.’s ambitions to go public early this year, it noted that the company was aiming for a “significantly higher” valuation than the $6.2 billion it was ...

Databricks has agreed to acquire Panther Labs for an undisclosed price to expand the data company's footprint in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about enterprise software technology and trends. Tell us a little bit about how Databricks is helping companies analyze ...

The data analysis and AI software start-up is making its second acquisition, of German no-code company 8080 Labs, as it extends focus on data applications for non-computer scientists. Some of ...

“HI, JUST CHECKING in. Can I put in some more?” The bosses of promising startups are bombarded by such texts these days. Big funds in particular are falling over themselves to grab a piece of the tech ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - Databricks said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy startup Panther Labs, as the U.S. data analytics provider pushes deeper into the cybersecurity business. The ...

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi sees the potential for multiple acquisitions and an initial public offering for his firm next year, especially as three big industries – oil and gas, finance, and drug ...