India Push expands the Databricks R&D centers network beyond Amsterdam, Berlin and Mountain View, California | Photo Credit: GIVEN RUVIC
Databricks Inc. will boost hiring and invest more than $ 250 million in India in the next three years to accelerate artificial intelligence innovation, joining an avalanche of Western companies and of the expanding in the country.
The firm based in San Francisco, one of the most valuable private technology companies in the world, will increase its Indian account by more than 50 percent to approximately 750 at the end of the fiscal year, he said in a statement on Thursday. That includes a duplication of the number of engineers in its new Bengaluru Research Center to more than 200.
India Push expands Databricks’s network or dation beyond Amsterdam, Berlin and Mountain View, California. The company, founded in 2013, builds software to add, analyze and distribute data, a hot segment that feeds the boom in AI tools, tools and services.
“India is emerging as a global talent center of AI,” said Rochana Golani, Vice President of Learning and Habilitation of Databricks, in the statement.
Earlier this year, the company raised more than $ 15 billion in capital and debt of companies, including Facebook, Meta Platforms Inc., a wide range of lenders and investment weapons of Singapore and Qatar. More recent valued at $ 62 billion, the company has so far avoided making public.
Databricks will launch an AI and data academy in India with the aim of training half a million partners and customers in the next three years.
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Posted on April 24, 2025
