Databricks buys cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero to plug into its Genie agent
Databricks did not disclose the price. Row Zero was founded by former AWS and Tableau engineers and built a cloud spreadsheet that handles more than 1 million live rows. It will become a governed spreadsheet inside Genie, Databricks' natural-language agent for querying company data. Databricks' own finance team was already using the two together before the deal. TechCrunch reports Databricks is at a $7B annualized revenue run rate after raising $5B at a $190B valuation in August. This year it has also bought Quotient AI, SiftD.ai, Panther and Electric. CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that more deals are coming. For founders, Databricks is an active buyer of tools that put agents in front of business users. Row Zero had raised only modestly, but a familiar interface on top of governed data was enough to get it acquired by one of the largest private AI companies.
