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Sigma Named 2026 Databricks ISV Business Intelligence Partner of the Year and Joins as Launch Partner for Lakehouse//RT, Databricks’ New Real-Time Lakehouse
For the second consecutive year, Sigma is recognized for deepening its partnership and platform on Databricks — now spanning Lakehouse//RT, Genie Agents, Agent Bricks, and Lakebase
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Databricks Data + AI Summit —Sigma, the layer to build and scale analytics, apps and agents, today announced that it has been named the 2026 Databricks ISV Business Intelligence Partner of the Year at the annual Data + AI Summit, and joined as a launch partner for Lakehouse//RT, Databricks’ new real-time lakehouse. The partner award, presented for the second consecutive year, recognizes Sigma’s contributions to helping enterprise teams build and deploy AI Apps, agents, and analytics on governed enterprise data with Unity Catalog-grade security, governance, and scale—from inherited permissions to immutable audit—all on the Databricks platform.
The recognition comes on the heels of Sigma’s recently closed $80 million Series E, which included a strategic investment from Databricks Ventures and doubled the company’s valuation to $3 billion. Together, Sigma and Databricks have deepened their warehouse-native architecture to give business and technical teams a single governed workspace for AI Apps, analytics and automated workflows, without extracting data or duplicating governance.
“We’re honored to receive this recognition from Databricks for the second year in a row,” said Mike Palmer, CEO of Sigma. “Sigma now connects directly to Lakehouse//RT, Agent Bricks, Genie Agents and Lakebase, so joint customers can get sub-second query performance at scale, explore billions of rows through a familiar spreadsheet interface, build agents that act on that data and manage the full agent workflow — memory, state and all — without ever leaving the governed environment they already trust. The hardest part of enterprise AI isn’t building the model. It’s making agents work on real business data, under real permissions, at scale. That’s exactly what Sigma and Databricks solve together.”
“As the race to productionize AI accelerates, customers consistently ask us how they can better manage their data in order to build AI apps and agents that make a real impact on their business,” said Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships at Databricks. “As a key Databricks partner, Sigma helps our joint customers do exactly that. We’re proud to recognize them as the 2026 Databricks ISV Business Intelligence Partner of the Year.”
New Capabilities for Joint Sigma and Databricks Customers:
