Databricks Doubles Down on India Investments

Firm ramping up its India play as AI adoption picks up pace

- URVI MALVANIA

DATA AND AI solutions provider Databricks is ramping up investments in India, betting big on the country's digital infrastructure and appetite for AI-driven transformation. Ali Ghodsi, the firm's co-founder and chief executive, said India is a critical pillar of Databricks' global growth strategy, calling it "a gigantic market" that's not just showing promise but already delivering results.

"We're investing a lot in India, which is doing really, really great," Ghodsi said during the Databricks Data + AI Summit currently in progress in San Francisco. "When the rest of the world is talking about recession, India is on the upswing." The company is going beyond revenue-based decision-making, he added. "We're not just looking at ROI (return on investment). We're saying, let's go more. Let's put even more there than the numbers justify, because we're so bullish on what's happening in Asia."