Databricks Acquires Two Startups to Launch AI Security Product Powered by Claude

Databricks has dipped into its record-breaking war chest and acquired two startups to launch a new security product. It's called Lakewatch, and it runs on Anthropic's Claude.

The company acquired Antimatter in a deal kept secret until now, and SiftD.ai in a deal that came together in just a few weeks and closed on Monday. Terms were not disclosed for either acquisition.

Lakewatch takes Databricks' ability to store and analyze massive amounts of data and applies it to the security domain. The product performs classic SIEM tasks — monitoring, threat detection, and investigation — but does so using AI agents powered by Claude.

SiftD.ai was barely a company. It had only launched its first product in November 2025: an interactive notebook designed for collaboration between humans and AI agents. Co-founder Steve Zhang was well known in the Databricks network from his years as chief scientist at Splunk.

For IT leaders, this is a significant signal. Databricks, already central to many organizations' data platforms, is moving into security with an AI-first approach. The combination of data scale and agent-based threat hunting could reshape who sets the terms for enterprise security going forward.