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Databricks from founding to now: its own record, public attention and milestones

Databricks month by month, 453 Hacker News stories naming it, funding rounds, lawsuits and the IPO filing on one time axis, and which teams publish what.

Birth to now

Jan 2015 to Oct 2026
PUBLIC ATTENTION: HACKER NEWS STORIES NAMING IT, A MONTH (PEAK 19)Feb 2015: 2 storiesMar 2015: 1 storiesDec 2015: 1 storiesJan 2016: 1 storiesFeb 2016: 3 storiesMar 2016: 1 storiesMay 2016: 1 storiesJun 2016: 2 storiesJul 2016: 1 storiesOct 2016: 1 storiesNov 2016: 1 storiesDec 2016: 2 storiesJan 2017: 1 storiesMar 2017: 1 storiesApr 2017: 1 storiesMay 2017: 1 storiesJun 2017: 2 storiesAug 2017: 5 storiesOct 2017: 3 storiesNov 2017: 6 storiesDec 2017: 2 storiesJan 2018: 1 storiesMar 2018: 2 storiesJul 2018: 4 storiesAug 2018: 2 storiesSep 2018: 2 storiesOct 2018: 1 storiesNov 2018: 1 storiesJan 2019: 2 storiesFeb 2019: 5 storiesMar 2019: 3 storiesApr 2019: 2 storiesMay 2019: 2 storiesJun 2019: 2 storiesJul 2019: 4 storiesAug 2019: 3 storiesOct 2019: 5 storiesNov 2019: 1 storiesJan 2020: 2 storiesMar 2020: 1 storiesApr 2020: 1 storiesMay 2020: 3 storiesJun 2020: 5 storiesJul 2020: 2 storiesOct 2020: 1 storiesNov 2020: 1 storiesDec 2020: 1 storiesJan 2021: 1 storiesFeb 2021: 9 storiesMar 2021: 2 storiesMay 2021: 3 storiesAug 2021: 8 storiesSep 2021: 3 storiesOct 2021: 10 storiesNov 2021: 9 storiesDec 2021: 8 storiesJan 2022: 1 storiesMar 2022: 1 storiesApr 2022: 4 storiesMay 2022: 1 storiesJun 2022: 5 storiesJul 2022: 2 storiesAug 2022: 3 storiesSep 2022: 1 storiesOct 2022: 1 storiesNov 2022: 2 storiesDec 2022: 3 storiesJan 2023: 2 storiesFeb 2023: 3 storiesMar 2023: 10 storiesApr 2023: 4 storiesMay 2023: 3 storiesJun 2023: 19 storiesJul 2023: 4 storiesAug 2023: 4 storiesSep 2023: 6 storiesOct 2023: 3 storiesNov 2023: 2 storiesDec 2023: 1 storiesJan 2024: 4 storiesFeb 2024: 2 storiesMar 2024: 8 storiesApr 2024: 5 storiesMay 2024: 1 storiesJun 2024: 14 storiesJul 2024: 6 storiesAug 2024: 7 storiesSep 2024: 2 storiesOct 2024: 2 storiesNov 2024: 2 storiesDec 2024: 10 storiesJan 2025: 3 storiesFeb 2025: 6 storiesMar 2025: 4 storiesApr 2025: 1 storiesMay 2025: 11 storiesJun 2025: 8 storiesJul 2025: 3 storiesAug 2025: 7 storiesSep 2025: 7 storiesOct 2025: 7 storiesNov 2025: 3 storiesDec 2025: 14 storiesJan 2026: 4 storiesFeb 2026: 3 storiesMar 2026: 4 storiesApr 2026: 4 storiesMay 2026: 5 storiesJun 2026: 7 storiesJul 2026: 15 storiesAug 2026: 19 storiesSep 2026: 4 storiesOct 2026: 15 stories201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Attention counts stories whose title names it on Hacker News (query: Databricks); a few early ones may use the word another way.

On Hacker News

most discussed
  1. Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase ↗8 Jul 2026 · 161 points · 69 comments · links to databricks.com
  2. Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation ↗20 Aug 2025 · 182 points · 205 comments · links to databricks.com
  3. Databricks acquires Neon ↗14 May 2025 · 389 points · 226 comments · links to databricks.com
  4. Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B ↗5 May 2025 · 205 points · 173 comments · links to upstartsmedia.com
  5. Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks ↗21 Aug 2023 · 179 points · 133 comments · links to kjhealey.medium.com
  6. Databricks Strikes $1.3B Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML ↗26 Jun 2023 · 188 points · 110 comments · links to wsj.com
  7. Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io ↗30 May 2023 · 220 points · 117 comments · links to databricks.com
  8. Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs ↗12 Apr 2023 · 347 points · 89 comments · links to github.com

Public discussion, not the company's words; threads with the most points that name it in the title.

Every figure on this page comes from a named document with the exact sentence it was taken from; open “Exact text in the source” under any line. People appear in public roles from the company's own filings and pages. Not investment advice.