- Drives continued innovation with Lakebase, Genie, and Unity Gateway, equipping enterprise agents with context, control, choice, and cost optimisation.
- Expands its Singapore workforce to more than 500 employees and quadruples its Singapore headquarters.
- Helps leading Singapore organisations such as Singtel and Singapore Customs build governed, production-scale AI on enterprise data.
September 16, 2026– Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced plans to invest more than US$350 million in Singapore over the next three years as demand for Lakebase, Genie, and Unity Gateway accelerates. As part of this commitment, Databricks will also quadruple its Singapore office with a new 32,000-square-foot headquarters and double its local workforce to more than 500 people
The investment reinforces Singapore’s role as Databricks’ regional hub for Asia Pacific & Japan and supports the ambitions of the country’s National AI Strategy, enabling Databricks to work more closely with customers, partners and government agencies as organisations transition from AI experimentation to deploying governed AI systems at scale.
Context, Control, Choice, and Cost Optimisation for Enterprise AI
Organisations are onboarding a new set of employees: AI agents. To succeed, agents need a reliable, scalable foundation; clear, accurate answers from enterprise context; and the ability to easily forecast budgets and switch to more cost-effective models to avoid burning through expensive tokens. The Databricks Data + AI Platform tackles the main challenges stalling enterprise AI today, giving teams a simple way to build, govern and scale AI that drives real value. Key capabilities include:
- Lakebase, its serverless Postgres database, provides the secure, instant memory AI agents need to run mission-critical apps and workflows faster, leaner, and safer
- Genie, its AI coworker, supplies the right enterprise context to turn business data into trusted answers and actions
- Unity Gateway, its multi-AI control plane, delivers governance, smart routing, and cost controls across all agents, tools, and models.
Together, these capabilities provide the context, control, choice and cost optimisation needed for enterprises to deploy agents effectively while maintaining flexibility, governance, and quality.
“Singapore has the ambition, talent, and trusted business environment to become a leading global hub for enterprise AI,” said Simon Davies, SVP and GM, Databricks APJ. “Organisations across the region are moving quickly from AI pilots to production, but doing so successfully requires trusted data and context, strong governance, and control over models and costs. This investment will help our customers build AI systems and agents that are ready to operate at scale.”
Growing Enterprise AI Momentum across Singapore
Databricks continues to expand its customer base across key industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and the public sector. New regional customers include iFAST Corporation, Singapore Customs, and Singtel. They join leading organisations already using Databricks across the region, including Airwallex, CPF Board, GovTech Singapore, LG Electronics, Standard Chartered and Toyota.
“Data and AI are creating new opportunities to transform how we serve and protect our clients. Databricks helps us turn that opportunity into trusted, scalable capabilities that support our cross-border and affluent strategy,” said Lavy Stokhamer, Global Head, Cybersecurity and AntiCrime Tech, Standard Chartered.
Expanding Databricks’ Regional Headquarters
As part of this investment, Databricks will open a new 32,000-square-foot regional headquarters at IOI Central Boulevard Towers. Quadrupling the company’s existing Singapore footprint, the headquarters will support a local workforce expected to grow from 250 to more than 500 over the next three years. The headquarters will include dedicated training and collaboration facilities where customers, partners and learners can develop data and AI skills, explore new use cases, and accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Built on an open source foundation, the platform gives teams a simple way to build AI that understands their business context. The platform includes the products Lakebase, Genie, Unity Gateway, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Instagram.
