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Looker, the Business Intelligence Startup Raises $30 M

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What does Looker do?

Looker, the business intelligence startup is a software company which employs business intelligence that makes data accessible to organizations and analysts. The business intelligence works like the web, with this software; you can get real time access to the data you need to grow your company.

This inventive software company focuses on the intersection of engineering and economics which helps the customers use data to achieve success. Looker is a new comer to the Business Intelligence industry. The start believes that businesses can only succeed when the info is easily accessible and defined consistently across the entire organization.

Looker is building true discovery businesses with one customer at a time.

How much Looker was funded?

Looker, raised $30 M on March 11th, 2015 by Sapphire Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, First Round, PivotNorth Capital and Meritech Capital Partners for its new approach to business intelligence.

Previous Funding

  • $2M  in Seed funding on Mar 6th, 2013 by PivotNorth Capital and First Round.
  • $16M  in  Series A funding on Aug 13th, 2013 by First Round and Redpoint Ventures.

What is next for Looker?                                     

The latest funding of $ 30 M will be used to invest in growing Looker’s technology organically and not by acquisition, according to Frank Bien, the CEO and Co-Founder of Looker.

He also said that the company is improving the product across the board, including building on the ability to embed Looker in on other web apps, improve the business user experience and increase the database working power across the data infrastructure landscape.

The company already has 110 employees and is planning to hire 200 by the end of this year.

More about Looker

Looker was founded in 2011 by Lloyd Tabb, Ben Porterfield and Marc Randolph.

Currently 250 customers use Looker to parse their data troves to make business decisions including Warby Parker, Asana, Yahoo!, Venmo, Upworthy, Gilt and Docker.

A unique selling point of Looker is it has created a new language for database queries, which is an easy to use approach to SQL called LookML.

 

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