Databricks announced yesterday it has raised over $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation. The round was led by Insight Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with participation from firms including Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, T. Rowe Price and Thrive Capital.
This marks the company's second major funding round in just three months. In September, Databricks raised $1 billion at a valuation exceeding $100 billion. The company has now more than doubled its valuation from $62 billion in December 2024, representing 116% appreciation in one year.
Exceptional financial momentum
The new investment comes alongside disclosure of updated business metrics that underscore Databricks' continued strength:
- Revenue: Surpassed $4.8 billion run-rate, growing >55% year-over-year
- Profitability: Achieved positive free cash flow over the past 12 months
- Customer retention: Net retention rate sustaining >140%
- AI products: Reached >$1 billion revenue run-rate
- Lakebase: Launched six months ago, already serves thousands of customers and is growing revenue at twice the pace of Databricks’ Data Warehousing product
- Data Warehousing: Achieved >$1 billion revenue run-rate in less than four years from general availability
- Enterprise customers: More than 700 customers generate >$1 million in annual revenue run-rate
Strategic product expansion
Databricks plans to use this capital to accelerate development of three strategic products designed to help customers build data intelligent applications:
- Lakebase, the first serverless Postgres database purpose-built for AI
- Databricks Apps for building and deploying data and AI applications
- Agent Bricks for scaling multi-agent systems on enterprise data
As Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, explains:
"Enterprises are rapidly reimagining how they build intelligent applications, and the convergence of generative AI with new coding paradigms is opening the door to entirely new workloads. By anchoring transactional data in Lakebase, delivering intuitive experiences through Databricks Apps, and enabling advanced multi-agent systems with Agent Bricks, we're giving customers a unified foundation to build trusted, high-performance data intelligent applications at scale."
Per the announcement, the capital will also provide liquidity for employees and support future AI acquisitions and research.
Our view
Databricks continues to demonstrate the rare combination of scale and growth velocity that defines exceptional software businesses. Revenue growth above 55% at nearly $5 billion run-rate, coupled with positive free cash flow and expanding product leadership, reinforces our conviction in the company's ability to capitalize on the AI transformation. The 116% valuation increase over the past year reflects both strong execution and the market's recognition of Databricks' strategic position as enterprises increasingly adopt AI-powered applications built on their proprietary data.
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