Dataform scores $2M to build an ‘operating system’ for data warehouses

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Dataform, a U.K
company started by ex-Googlers that wants to make it easier for businesses to manage their data warehouses, has picked up $2 million in
funding
Leading the round is LocalGlobe, with participation from a number of unnamed angel investors
The startup is also an alumni of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator and graduated in late 2018.Founded by former Google employees Lewis
Hemens and Guillaume-Henri Huon, Dataform has set out to help data-rich companies draw insights from the data stored in their data
warehouses
Mining data for insights and business intelligence typically requires a team of data engineers and analysts
Dataform wants to simplify this task and in turn make it faster and cheaper for organisations to take full advantage of their data
Redshift or Snowflake
[However,] to exploit this data, such as conducting analytics or using BI tools, they need to convert the vast amount of raw data into a
to manage data in the warehouse efficiently
Dataform solves this by offering a complete toolkit to manage data in data warehouses
Data teams can build new data sets and set them to update automatically every day, or more frequently
The entire process is managed via a single interface and setting up a new data set is said to take as little as five minutes
testing and dependency management.Meanwhile, Dataform says the seed funding will help the company continue to grow both its sales and
engineering teams
It will also be used to further develop its product
The startup generates revenue based on a classic SaaS model: typically charging per number of users.