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CustomerLake is the Agentic CDP embedded in Databricks, natively enabling C360, identity resolution, activation and real-time personalization for marketers.

The page describes sharing data and AI assets across platforms without proprietary formats or costly replication.

Databricks Lakehouse (Databricks SQL) redefines the data warehouse, unifying BI, AI, ETL, streaming and apps on trusted data for faster insights, lower costs and no lock-in.

Databricks Lakebase is a fully managed Postgres database for AI agents and apps, integrated with the lakehouse to deliver low-latency, scalable operational workloads.

The page covers lakehouse architectures, blueprints, and best practices for unifying data, governance, and AI for engineers and architects.

The page presents the Databricks Data + AI Platform as a way to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) and extend capabilities compared with Snowflake.

The Databricks Board of Directors brings decades of experience in data and AI.

Databricks was founded by Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski, and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji.

The Databricks leadership team brings decades of experience and a long-term vision for data and AI.

Databricks has received recognition from industry leaders.

Databricks Partnering Principles publicly outline the company's commitments to customers and partners and its approach to the ecosystem.

The company aims to cultivate a culture of belonging where everyone is empowered to do their best work.

Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI that supports ETL, data warehousing, governance, and AI on the Data + AI Platform.

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Applied Computing raises a $20 million Series A to build Orbital, a foundation AI model that combines sensor data, physics-based modeling, and a language model to predict conditions across oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities. Led by KBR with participation from Databricks Ventures, the round will fund international expansion and research and engineering hires. The London startup says energy companies use Orbital to investigate facility anomalies and model potential fixes.

Jul 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Data transformation startup Prophecy raises $35 million in a Series B round led by Insight Partners and SignalFire, with participation from J.P. Morgan, Singtel Innov8, Databricks Ventures, and Dallas Venture Capital. The investment brings Prophecy’s total capital raised to $67 million.

Oct 2023 · TechCrunchNews article