How Databricks is Transforming Industries with Data and AI

AI promises to transform industry but, for many businesses, the gap between ambition and reality remains stubbornly wide. Databricks, the data and AI platform provider, believes it has the architecture to close it.

Founded with a mission to democratise data and AI, Databricks has grown into a platform trusted by more than 20,000 customers daily, including 70% of the Fortune 500. Its technology unifies structured and unstructured data under a single platform, then layers intelligence on top to make the data usable by ordinary business users.

Shiv Trisal, Global Industrials GTM Lead at Databricks, joined the organisation four years ago and has watched it grow from nimble startup to software giant. 

However, he reveals something essential has stayed the same: “We still operate – even though we are at 10,000 to 12,000 people now – with the mentality that we were born yesterday. That day-one spirit is still alive here.”

What has changed is the scale of the ambition. 

“It’s rarefied air,” Shiv says, “but that’s where we are going.”