Databricks, Inc.
Acquisitions
7
Major Deals Covered
$3.3B
Disclosed Deal Value
Databricks's largest disclosed acquisition here is MosaicML for $1.3B in 2023. This page covers 7 major deals from 2023 to 2026, each with its price where disclosed and the reason behind it.
| Company | Year | Price | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| MosaicML | 2023 | $1.3B | Acquired to provide enterprises with cost-effective infrastructure and algorithms for building, fine-tuning, and deploying private foundation models. |
| Tabular | 2024 | $1.0B | Acquired the company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg open table formats. The price was reported as over $1 billion. |
| Lilac AI | 2024 | Undisclosed | Acquired to enhance unstructured data exploration and curation for LLM training datasets. Terms were not disclosed. |
| Neon | 2025 | $1.0B | Acquired the serverless Postgres startup (price reported at about $1 billion) to give AI agents and applications an operational database alongside the lakehouse. |
| Panther | 2026 | Undisclosed | Announced June 16, 2026 at Data + AI Summit: an agreement to acquire the AI security operations (SOC) platform to build out a 'security lakehouse' for threat detection on Databricks. |
| Electric | 2026 | Undisclosed | Acquired in August 2026 for its technology that runs and syncs WebAssembly-based Postgres databases inside application environments, keeping data close to AI agents. |
| Row Zero | 2026 | Undisclosed | Acquired September 24, 2026: a Seattle startup whose spreadsheet handles very large datasets, to add a governed spreadsheet interface to Genie. |
2026
Announced June 16, 2026 at Data + AI Summit: an agreement to acquire the AI security operations (SOC) platform to build out a 'security lakehouse' for threat detection on Databricks.
Extends Databricks into security analytics, a market served by SIEM vendors.
Terms were not disclosed.
2026
Acquired in August 2026 for its technology that runs and syncs WebAssembly-based Postgres databases inside application environments, keeping data close to AI agents.
Complements Lakebase for agent-driven and local-first applications.
Terms were not disclosed.
2026
Acquired September 24, 2026: a Seattle startup whose spreadsheet handles very large datasets, to add a governed spreadsheet interface to Genie.
Targets ungoverned 'spreadmarts' used by finance, operations, and sales teams.
Terms were not disclosed; Row Zero keeps supporting non-Databricks data sources.
2025
$1.0B
Acquired the serverless Postgres startup (price reported at about $1 billion) to give AI agents and applications an operational database alongside the lakehouse.
Became the foundation of Lakebase, Databricks' serverless Postgres product.
Lakebase passed a $100 million revenue run-rate by August 2026.
2024
$1.0B
Acquired the company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg open table formats. The price was reported as over $1 billion.
Brought Iceberg's original creators in-house and accelerated Delta Lake and Iceberg interoperability through UniForm.
Enabled enterprise customers to query any open data format with zero lock-in, removing a major sales objection vs. Snowflake.
2024
Acquired to enhance unstructured data exploration and curation for LLM training datasets. Terms were not disclosed.
Folded into Mosaic AI data preparation tooling.
Strengthened Databricks' tools for curating text data used in AI applications.
2023
$1.3B
Acquired to provide enterprises with cost-effective infrastructure and algorithms for building, fine-tuning, and deploying private foundation models.
Transformed Databricks into a leading generative AI platform and catalyzed the creation of the Mosaic AI product suite.
MosaicML's team built the DBRX open model (2024) and the Mosaic AI training and serving stack, which later underpinned Agent Bricks.
Databricks is expanding from analytics into the systems that enterprise AI agents run on. The 2026 funding is earmarked for three products: Lakebase, a serverless Postgres database for agents built on the 2025 acquisition of Neon; Genie, an AI coworker that answers business questions from governed data; and Unity AI Gateway, which routes requests across AI models with governance and cost controls. Acquisitions fill gaps quickly: Panther for security analytics (announced June 2026), Electric for local Postgres sync (August 2026), and Row Zero to add a governed spreadsheet to Genie (September 2026). Alongside this, Databricks keeps pushing its Lakehouse warehousing product to take SQL workloads from legacy and cloud data warehouses.
Databricks makes money by charging for compute consumed on its platform, measured in Databricks Units (DBUs). Customers usually sign annual or multi-year committed-spend contracts and then draw them down as their engineers run pipelines, SQL queries, model training, model serving, and AI agents. There is no flat seat fee for most workloads, so revenue rises as data volumes and AI usage grow. Databricks runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure (where it is sold as the first-party Azure Databricks service), and Google Cloud, and customers can often pay for it through existing cloud commitments. Newer products such as Lakebase (serverless Postgres), Genie, and Agent Bricks extend the same consumption model to operational databases and AI agents.
In July 2023, Databricks acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion, securing state-of-the-art generative AI training infrastructure, open-source LLMs (MPT-7B/30B), and top AI research talent to establish Databricks as the premier enterprise foundation model platform.
In June 2024, Databricks acquired Tabular (founded by Ryan Blue and Daniel Weeks, the creators of Apache Iceberg) for over $1.0 billion, uniting the Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg open-source communities under Databricks' UniForm open table format.
In February 2024, Databricks acquired Einblick, an AI-native data canvas platform developed at MIT and Brown University, integrating natural-language AI workflows into Databricks SQL and notebook environments.
In May 2023, Databricks acquired Okera, a leader in AI-centric data governance, integrating Okera's fine-grained access control and automated data masking into Unity Catalog to secure sensitive data accessed by LLMs.
In June 2020, Databricks acquired open-source dashboard and visualization company Redash, integrating Redash's query editor and visualization tools to build the user interface of Databricks SQL.
In October 2023, Databricks acquired Arcion for $100 million, adding real-time, low-latency Change Data Capture (CDC) replication from enterprise relational databases (Oracle, SAP, Salesforce) directly into the Databricks Lakehouse.
Databricks acquires pioneering data engineering, open-source protocol, and generative AI startups with exceptional engineering founders whose technology can be natively integrated into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Following major acquisitions (such as Tabular and MosaicML), Databricks commits to open-sourcing critical components (such as open-sourcing Unity Catalog and releasing open-weight foundation models like DBRX) to prevent industry lock-in.
In 2023, right as the Generative AI boom exploded, Databricks executed a massive $1.3 billion acquisition of MosaicML. This allowed Databricks to instantly offer its enterprise clients the ability to build and train their own massive, private language models.
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