Row Zero, the Seattle-based startup behind high-performance spreadsheet software built for massive enterprise datasets, has been acquired by data and AI giant Databricks.

Databricks plans to integrate Row Zero directly into its platform and Genie AI assistant, giving non-technical teams a familiar grid interface to analyze datasets without leaving their data environment.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release.

Founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers Breck Fresen and Nick End, Row Zero set out to build a spreadsheet capable of processing millions of rows at cloud scale without lagging or crashing.

The startup, which raised a $10 million Series A round last year, pitched its software as a faster, more secure alternative to traditional tools like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

In a LinkedIn post announcing the acquisition, Fresen, Row Zero’s CEO, said the startup’s standalone product will remain available to existing users, while the team focuses on embedding its technology across Databricks.

“What is changing is the speed at which we’ll be able to put Row Zero in the hands of customers,” Fresen wrote, noting that Databricks serves more than 20,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 500.

Fresen and End previously launched a shoe-fitting startup called Shoefitr that was acquired by Amazon in 2015.

GeekWire reached out to Row Zero for comment on the acquisition and we’ll update this story when we hear back.

San Francisco-based Databricks, founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark including CEO Ali Ghodsi , has grown into a data and AI juggernaut.

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