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With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month <\/a>(not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. <\/p>\n The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced<\/a> on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch takes Databricks\u2019 ability to store massive amounts of data and performs classic Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tasks, like detecting and investigating threats. Only it does so with the help of AI agents powered by Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n Databricks bought two startups to underpin this new product: Antimatter, in an undisclosed-until-now deal that closed last year, and SiftD.ai, in a deal that flew together over the last couple of weeks and closed on Monday, the company told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n Terms were not disclosed for either deal. Antimatter, founded by security researcher Andrew Krioukov, raised $12 million led by New Enterprise Associates in 2022, according to PitchBook estimates. If tiny SiftD.ai had raised money, PitchBook wasn\u2019t aware.<\/p>\n SiftD.ai was so young, it had only launched its product in November<\/a>: an interactive notebook (like a Jupyter<\/a> notebook) intended to be a tool where people and agents worked together. The Databricks team knew the startup\u2019s co-founder CEO Steve Zhang from his many years as chief scientist at Splunk (through 2021). He created the Search Processing Language while there. (His LinkedIn<\/a> also says he was CTO of Astronomer, of the Coldplay CEO scandal<\/a>, but left there in 2023 before founding SiftD.)<\/p>\n Both of these acquisitions were of small startups \u2014 only a few people in SiftD\u2019s case and less than 50 for Antimatter, according to LinkedIn<\/a>. SiftD appears to be an acqui-hire. With Antimatter, Databricks probably gained some IP, too. Krioukov had demonstrated Antimatter\u2019s tech onstage in 2024 at RSA\u2019s Innovation Sandbox Contest<\/a>. Antimatter was working on a \u201cdata control plane\u201d tool that allowed enterprises to deploy agents securely, while protecting sensitive data.<\/p>\n While Databricks declined to say how many employees it acquired, it confirmed that the startups\u2019 employees did join the company. Krioukov, who\u2019s been at Databricks for months now, is leading the Lakewatch team.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<\/span> We asked Databricks if it was going to keep shopping for startups and a spokesperson essentially said, yes, that it continuously has its feelers out. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking to what\u2019s next \u2014 our goal is to stay ahead of the market and close gaps in what our customers need,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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