After leaving ServiceNow, Philip Kirk will oversee corporate development and ventures at fellow enterprise software company Databricks.
The corporate venture arm of data and artificial intelligence software provider Databricks has hired former ServiceNow executive Philip Kirk as senior vice-president of corporate development and ventures.
The move comes after Kirk recently left enterprise software producer ServiceNow, where he was SVP of corporate business development, after almost six years, during which the company’s investments included customer experience orchestration platform Genesys and AI researcher Thinking Machines Lab.
Kirk joins a Databricks team that includes Andrew Ferguson, head of corporate VC unit Databricks Ventures and 2025 GCV Powerlister. The company closed its most recent funding round at a $134bn valuation in February this year.
Databricks has leant heavily into investing in AI startups in recent years, having formed a dedicated fund in 2024. In the past four months, it has backed AI computing technology developer Unconventional AI and AI coding platforms Replit and Lovable, at a combined valuation of over $20bn.
See all Databricks’ venture investments on GCV’s CVC Funding Round Database
