Glean raises $7M to democratize data insights –

▤ Summary

You’d think data visualization and exploration is a bit of a solved problem thanks to the likes of Tableau, Sisense, Looker, Microsoft Power BI and their competitors. A number of angel investors, including Elad Gil, Shana Fisher, Dylan Field, Scott Belsky, Cristina Córdova, Akshay Kothari, DJ Patil and Anthony Goldbloom, also participated in this round. It was there that he realized that a lot of teams wanted access to this data, but writing a new SQL query for every request wasn’t scalable in the long run. […] I loved this idea of like taking the complexity, simplifying it and building tools out of it.” After Amazon acquired Kiva, Aguilar worked there for a few years and then joined Flatiron Health as the first data hire there. So investing in these core analytics workflows and making that an incredible experience is high on the list.” The team is also looking into building more automation systems and tools to automatically create models from various points in a company’s data pipeline.

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Databricks

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