Our clients ceaselessly spotlight a crucial problem to AI adoption: guaranteeing delicate information stays persistently ruled and secured because it strikes throughout information platforms, purposes, and fashions. Conventional information safety approaches that target infrastructure and entry controls typically battle to maintain tempo with the speedy proliferation of information throughout a number of instruments and platforms.
That’s why Databricks Ventures is happy to announce our funding within the Sequence A funding spherical of Theom, considered one of our next-generation information governance companions. Theom’s AI-native Information Operations Heart platform permits enterprises to manipulate and safe their information throughout lakehouse, cloud, PaaS, SaaS, and generative AI environments.
Databricks and Theom have been shut companions for a number of years, working with refined corporations together with JetBlue and Grammarly. Our funding underscores Databricks’ dedication to expertise companions that assist organizations leverage information and AI on the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform, whereas sustaining a robust safety and governance posture.
Theom: Addressing The Information Safety Problem within the AI Period
The speedy unfold of information throughout a number of platforms in an enterprise — from information lakehouses to SaaS purposes to AI fashions — has led to important blind spots in AI safety and governance frameworks. In response, Theom is reimagining information and AI governance and safety with a platform purpose-built for the trendy information stack. In contrast to conventional Information Safety Posture Administration (DSPM) instruments, Theom’s Information Operations Heart approaches safety from a data-first perspective, analyzing consumer identification, actions, and intent to find out whether or not information utilization complies with inside insurance policies and exterior laws.
Theom’s platform seamlessly integrates with the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform, together with different information platforms, whether or not within the cloud or on-prem — and with main SaaS purposes and generative AI instruments. Theom builds on high of the governance capabilities offered by Databricks Unity Catalog and extends visibility into non-Databricks environments. This complete integration strategy gives enterprises with a single pane of glass throughout their whole information property.
What’s Subsequent: A Shared Imaginative and prescient for Safe, Ruled Information
Databricks Ventures’ funding in Theom displays our shared imaginative and prescient of enabling enterprises to leverage their information safely and successfully within the AI period. As organizations proceed constructing information purposes and AI options on the Information Intelligence Platform, Theom’s capabilities will assist them keep rigorous safety and governance requirements with out compromising agility or innovation.
We’re excited to assist Theom as they proceed to assist enterprises construct safe, compliant foundations for the AI-driven future. Come see us each on the Information + AI Summit in San Francisco in June!
