Corporate investor in listed AI tools

Databricks

Databricks has backed 10 companies behind 14 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Corporate investor

Databricks has backed 10 companies behind 14 listings on Anchor Terminal.

Companies on Anchor Terminal

Alation, Inc. Series E, November 2022, through Databricks Ventures
- Alation C · Company knowledge & data catalogues
Source alation.com/news-and-press/…
Braintrust Series A, October 2024, through Databricks Ventures
- Braintrust API + MCP C · Agent observability & evals
Source braintrust.dev/blog/…
Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco) Series B, October 2024, through Databricks Ventures
- Galileo API + MCP D · Agent observability & evals
Source galileo.ai/blog/…
Glean Technologies, Inc. Series D, February 2024, through Databricks Ventures
- Glean B · Company knowledge & data catalogues
Source glean.com/press/…
LanceDB Series A, June 2025, through Databricks Ventures
- LanceDB B · Retrieval & vector search
Source lancedb.com/blog/series-a-funding
LangChain Series B, October 2025, through Databricks Ventures
- LangGraph BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- LangMem D · Agent memory
- LangSmith API + MCP BB · Agent observability & evals
Source langchain.com/blog/series-b
OpenRouter Series B, May 2026, through Databricks Ventures
- OpenRouter B · Model APIs & inference
Source openrouter.ai/blog/…
Perplexity Series A, March 2023, Series B, January 2024, through Databricks Ventures
- SPACE C · Code execution sandboxes
- pplx-decider B · Decision models
- pplx-decider-flash B · Decision models
Source perplexity.ai/hub/blog/…
Unstructured Series B, March 2024, through Databricks Ventures
- Unstructured API + MCP D · Document parsing & extraction
Source pillsburylaw.com/en/…
Voyage AI (MongoDB) Series A, October 2024
- Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers C · Embeddings & rerankers
Source blog.voyageai.com/2024/10/03/…

Where they invest

Agent observability & evals 3 Company knowledge & data catalogues 2 Decision models 2 Retrieval & vector search 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent memory 1 Model APIs & inference 1 Code execution sandboxes 1 Document parsing & extraction 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1

Founders they backed

Vikram Chatterji Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco)
Atindriyo Sanyal Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco)
Yash Sheth Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco)
Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
Chang She LanceDB
Harrison Chase LangChain
Ankush Gola LangChain
Alex Atallah OpenRouter
Chris Clark OpenRouter
Louis Vichy OpenRouter
Aravind Srinivas Perplexity
Denis Yarats Perplexity
Johnny Ho Perplexity
Andy Konwinski Perplexity
Brian S. Raymond Unstructured

Questions

Which AI tools has Databricks invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Alation, Inc., Braintrust, Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco), Glean Technologies, Inc., LanceDB, LangChain, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Unstructured and Voyage AI (MongoDB) backed by Databricks.

How are Databricks's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Alation (C, 60.3), Braintrust API + MCP (C, 61.1), Galileo API + MCP (D, 47.9), Glean (B, 69.9), LanceDB (B, 65.5), LangGraph (BB, 70.8), LangMem (D, 48.3), LangSmith API + MCP (BB, 71.3), OpenRouter (B, 68.6), SPACE (C, 56.4), pplx-decider (B, 68.2), pplx-decider-flash (B, 68), Unstructured API + MCP (D, 47.2) and Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers (C, 58.8).

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