runQL, a Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based tech startup improving how data professionals and developers work with queries for data, raised $1.6M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by Mistral Venture Partners with participation from MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Inovia Capital, UW Velocity Fund, Philip Rathle, and other Waterloo-based founders.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate further sales, marketing, and product development to help data analysts and developers.
Led by CEO Rob Darling, runQL is a provider of a smart query platform (integrated development environment (IDE)) purpose-built to help data professionals write queries faster, have a single source of truth, and eliminate the chaos around saving, documenting, and versioning queries. With support for SQL, Neo4j Cypher, Python, and query federation, the platform allows data professionals to save time and eliminate rework. Features like smart query suggestions, powerful search, version control, query certification, AI-assisted documentation, schema change resolution, and query optimization help build up a library of trusted queries that brings speed and order to data work.
Working with customers across a wide range of industries including geospatial data, eCommerce, life sciences, and iOT, runQL is being used by data, product, software development, and technical sales teams.
The runQL team also includes Kris Braun (CTO), who has held roles at Google and a YC-backed startup, Emily Chalmers (Software Engineer), with 6 years of experience as a data analyst/data engineer, and Brandon Noad (Senior Software Engineer), who was an early engineering hire at a YC-backed company that exited in 2018.
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15/11/2024