About Prophecy AI
The Vision: Make data pipelines scalable, modern, and accessible. Founded by engineers and data scientists, with a leadership team forged at companies like Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Hortonworks. We bring the power of agentic AI to millions of business data users who do data prep and analysis every day.
Our Story
Enterprise data teams were drowning in data and complexity. As a product leader for Apache Hive at Hortonworks, Raj Bains saw enterprises struggling with expanding data sources and thousands of brittle pipelines that only a handful of engineers could build and maintain.
Drawing on his compiler expertise from years at Microsoft and NVIDIA — including work on the CUDA compiler that powers AI GPU computation — Raj founded Prophecy in Palo Alto, California in 2017, adding Vikas Marwaha, Maciej Szpakowski, and Rohit Bakhshi as co-founders in 2019 to expand the vision.
Together, they created cloud-native, low-code Spark development backed by real, Git-versioned code, with proprietary compilers that translated visual designs into production-grade pipelines. Coding not required.
The rise of generative AI transformed that foundation, letting Prophecy render AI-generated logic onto a visual canvas that business analysts could refine, validate, and deploy — rather than treat as a black box.
Today, Prophecy is going further, enriching data with semantics and ontologies so business users can build and analyze pipelines at astonishing speed, simply by chatting with an AI assistant.
Leadership


Raj Bains


Vikas Marwaha


Maciej Szpakowski


Tiffany Tran


Edan Kabatchnik


Vishal Swarankar


Jordan Markham


Sandra Chim


Pooja Vasanth
Board


Raj Bains


Vikas Marwaha


Maciej Szpakowski


Ilya Kirnos


George Mathew


Burke Norton


Kai Yang


Elena Zislin
Our Journey
2017
Founded
Prophecy founded in Palo Alto, CA
Raj Bains launches Prophecy to modernize enterprise data engineering
2019
Funding + Founder team expansion
Series A raised
Maciej Szpakowski and Vikas Marwaha join Prophecy
2021
Launch + Funding
Prophecy SaaS platform launches
Low-code data engineering platform for Apache Spark fuels growth
2022
Funding
$25M Series A round
Funds tooling to modernize legacy data pipelines and move to the cloud
2023
Launch
Prophecy 3.0
Brings low-code SQL to analysts through visual pipeline design
2023
Funding
$35M Series B round
Supports continued scaling and company growth
2024
Launch
Prophecy Data Transformation Copilot for Databricks
Offers GenAI-powered creation of data pipelines on Databricks platform
2025
Award
Winner, 2025 InfoWorld Technology of the Year
Category: Data Management — Pipelines
2025
Recognition
Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Management
Recognized in "Cool Vendors in Data Management: The Modern Data Stack Grows Up"
2025
Launch
Prophecy 4.0
Fully governed, AI-enabled, self-service data prep for Databricks
2025
Funding
$47M Series B1 round
Accelerates Prophecy's AI-powered data transformation roadmap
2026
Launch
Prophecy v4
Expands 4.0 with governance controls and Claude Code-powered AI agents, adds support for Snowflake, BigQuery and in-memory DuckDB
Backed by Investors Who Believe in the Mission
Prophecy is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors who share our vision for AI-powered data transformation.




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