Databricks Doubles Down on AI Products, Opens New 235,000-Square-Foot San Francisco Headquarters

Last week, we opened our new headquarters at One Sansome Street in San Francisco, welcoming employees, customers, and partners into what will ultimately be a 235,000+ square foot space that matches the scale of what we're building together.

Data is increasingly becoming the engine that powers frontier AI, and this investment lets us better serve customers like Anthropic, Cognition, Cursor, Decagon, and OpenAI. The move is only part of our long-term commitment to San Francisco as our home base for building the future of data and AI for the world’s most innovative organizations. The Bay Area's concentration of top universities, research institutions, and technical talent is unmatched.

As previously shared, we're investing over $1 billion into our San Francisco operations by early 2028. We've committed to hosting our Data + AI Summit here through 2030, which is expected to generate nearly $1 billion in economic value for the city. This year’s event drew over 30,000 attendees, a record that we plan to beat in 2027.

Why SF?

San Francisco is the central hub for our AI Research team, which is innovating on the frontier of AI agents and models for knowledge work to power products like Genie, including:

KARL: custom models for enterprise that do better than frontier models on all three dimensions: inference cost, latency, and quality.
MemCurrent: a persistent memory architecture for production agents that keeps important, relevant information consistent and fresh for faster, more efficient responses. With MemCurrent, which powers Genie and Agent Bricks Memory, AI agents aren’t starting from zero every time.
Adaptive Instructed Retriever: a more efficient way for AI agents to find the right tables, notebooks, dashboards, and documents for better, faster results. Instead of brute-force exploration, agents adjust their search strategy based on the request. Sequential search is reserved for only the more complex, multi-step prompts.

Additionally, the teams at One Sansome are building some of Databricks’ most important products that drive real-world impact, such as:

Lakebase: the first serverless Postgres database built for AI agents.
Genie: An always-on, autonomous agent for enterprise work.
Unity Gateway: multi-AI governance and cost controls.

What’s Inside One Sansome

When we initially announced this lease in March last year, we shared that the space would have over 150,000 square feet. Last week, we opened our doors with 201,000 square feet, and by next fall will expand to 235,000 square feet. Our new One Sansome headquarters offers significantly more room to collaborate, and there are tons of new benefits and amenities for Databricks employees, customers, and partners, including:

Modern collaboration spaces: Conference rooms with best-in-class acoustics.
Dining and recreation: a game room, a larger café, a coffee bar, and more.
Video and podcast studios: a video studio, podcast recording space, and green room.
Executive Briefing Center: a dedicated space for customer and partner meetings, featuring modern conference facilities and comfortable lounge areas.
Fitness facilities: a fitness center with locker rooms, showers, and towel service.
Transit and neighborhood: direct MUNI and BART access from the Montgomery Street station, and just steps from Yerba Buena, Powell Street, and Chinatown.

Our Journey to One Sansome: From a Small Berkeley Research Lab to a 12,000+ Global Team

For us, this move is also a chance to reflect on how far we’ve come and what comes next. In 2015, we went from a small office in downtown Berkeley to 160 Spear Street in San Francisco. We had fewer than 100 employees. At the time, the new space felt enormous, and it was a huge validation that we were onto something real.

A lot has happened since then. We've grown from a scrappy open-source startup to a leader in data and AI, now with over 12,000 employees worldwide. In August, we announced crossing a $7 billion revenue run-rate, with >80% YoY growth and closed funding at a $190B valuation.

Over the last decade, we have grown to help 20,000+ customers, like adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500. We’ve welcomed powerhouse teams from acquisitions like Mosaic, Neon, Tabular, Row Zero, and Panther, many of which are Bay Area companies that chose to join forces with us. We’ve developed and released market-leading products like Lakebase, Genie, and Unity Gateway.

Spear Street was home to all of that growth, but we knew it was time for a change. In March 2025, we announced plans to move to One Sansome: a new headquarters that could keep pace with our momentum and our ambitions. Now, we're thrilled to be here.

Join the Team

We’re excited for our employees, customers, and partners to experience our new office at One Sansome. If you’re interested in building the future of data and AI, check out our careers page!