Databricks keeps adding companies to its cart, and this time it's spreadsheets.
Databricks has acquired Row Zero, a startup that builds cloud-based spreadsheet software, the company confirmed. It's the latest in a string of acquisitions Databricks has made throughout 2026. Databricks says it isn't finished, either: the company is actively scouting for more startups to buy. No financial terms for the Row Zero deal were disclosed.
Spreadsheets remain the tool most people actually use to look at data, even at companies that have spent millions on fancier analytics platforms. Folding a spreadsheet product into its stack gives Databricks a friendlier front door for non-technical staff who will never open a notebook or write a SQL query. That's a different kind of bet than its usual infrastructure deals - it's about who touches the data, not just where it lives.
A company that keeps buying instead of building tends to end up with products that don't talk to each other. Whether Row Zero gets truly folded in or just gets a Databricks logo is the thing worth watching next.