Matei Zaharia

Active Investor

CTO & Cofounder at Databricks

Berkeley, California

Matei Zaharia, CTO & Cofounder at Databricks is an active investor based in Berkeley, California. This profile covers what Matei Zaharia backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Matei Zaharia is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer & Board Member at Databricks. Dr. Zaharia is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor at DBOS. He serves as an Advisor at PlayerZero. He is an Angel Investor. He started the Spark project at UC Berkeley and serves as its Vice President at the Apache Foundation. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Throughout his career, he has contributed to several other widely used open source projects, including Apache Mesos, Tachyon and Apache Hadoop, along with key components of Spark such as MLlib, Spark Streaming, and Spark SQL. He was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2014 for his research on large-scale computer systems and Best Paper awards at NSDI and SIGCOMM. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a B.Math from the University of Waterloo. He serves as Board Member and Advisor at Matroid.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare & BiotechSaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailClimate & EnergyDeveloper Tools & DataCybersecurityManufacturing & Industrial
Location: Berkeley, California
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 3

Notable investments

KumoPlayerZeroMithril

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