Lightdash, a London, UK-based provider of an open source business intelligence platform, raised $8.4M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Accel, with participation from Guy Podjarny, Ashley Kramer, Tristan Handy, Lars Bjork, Y Combinator and Moonfire.
The company intends to use the funds to beta release Lightdash Cloud, hire new people and development new features.
Cofounded in 2021 by CEO Hamzah Chaudharyand CTO Oliver Laslett, Lightdash is an open source BI platform built for analysts on top of the modern data tools they already use. It brings visual layer together with data modelling and transformation layer, creating a single system for data metrics for teams. It integrates with data tools such as dbt, Snowflake, Airbyte and Fivetran.
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