{"slug": "will-databricks-ever-ipo", "title": "Will Databricks Ever IPO?", "summary": "Databricks announced it crossed $7 billion in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2, and raised $5 billion in its latest fundraise. The company reported $100 million+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase and $1.5 billion+ for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year, with continued positive adjusted free cash flow. CEO Ali Ghodsi said the capital will be invested in Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway.", "body_md": "Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2.\nWe also shared:\n🚀 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase\n🚀 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year\n🚀 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow\nAnd we raised $5B in our latest fundraise.\nWe’ll use this capital to invest in:\n1️⃣ Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents\n2️⃣ Genie, our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data\n3️⃣ Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs\n\n# Ali Ghodsi on X: \"Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2. We also shared: 🚀 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase 🚀 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year 🚀 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow\"\n\n- Super excited for our customers, partners, investors, and Bricksters!\n- congrats! epic quarter\n- wow. That is super impressive. Congrats!!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-databricks-ever-ipo", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/alighodsi/status/2087910823142240500", "published_at": "2026-08-13 15:37:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 15:44:06.730678+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Databricks", "Ali Ghodsi", "Lakebase", "Lakehouse", "Genie", "Unity AI Gateway"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-databricks-ever-ipo", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-databricks-ever-ipo.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-databricks-ever-ipo.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-databricks-ever-ipo.jsonld"}}