Tabular, a San Jose, CA-based provider of an independent data platform based on Apache Iceberg, closed a $26M funding round. Founded by Netflix alumni Ryan Blue, Dan Weeks and Jason Reid, Tabular is an independent data platform built by the creators of Apache Iceberg. The platform – available on AWS and GCP (preview version) – is a cloud-native SaaS offering that supports a wide range of compute engines. It auto-optimizes storage for faster, cheaper queries and provides centralized RBAC, enforced down to the data table level. • Data-layer security – centralized RBAC enforced at the database, table, or column level Tabular also previewed support for the Amazon Athena serverless query engine, which is in use at thousands of companies.