Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder and CEO, Databricks
Ali Ghodsi is co-founder and CEO of Databricks, the data and AI company that grew out of UC Berkeley's AMPLab, and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Born in Iran and raised in Sweden, he earned a PhD at KTH and helped start the Apache Spark and Mesos projects. He became Databricks CEO in January 2016; the company was valued at $190 billion in August 2026.
ExecutiveFounderSan Francisco, United States
- Investments
- 1
- First deal on record
- 2023
- Current roles
- 2
Experience
- Jan 2016 — nowCo-founder, CEO · Databricks10 yrs 9 mos
- NowAdjunct Professor · UC Berkeley
- Jan 2013 — Jan 2016Co-founder, VP of Engineering and Product · Databricks3 yrs
- From Jan 2009Visiting Scholar, AMPLab · UC Berkeley
- Jan 2008 — Jan 2009Assistant Professor · KTH Royal Institute of Technology1 yr
- Co-founder · Peerialism
Investments
2023Factory · Nov 2023
- FactoryNov 2023Seed