Founded by Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia in Berkeley, Databricks offers massive-scale data engineering, collaborative data science, full-lifecycle machine learning and business analytics. Over 40% of the Fortune 500 and more than 7000 organisations worldwide, including H&M Group, Adobe, AstraZeneca, Deloitte and Shell, rely on the software. According to CB Insights, Databricks is the ninth most valuable startup in the world. Early investors include BlackRock, CapitalG, Microsoft, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz and Baillie Gifford.