Metabase offers an open-source self-service access layer that lets users ask questions, scan datasets, build models, create dashboards, and slice data without requiring an analyst. The product mix includes a commercial offering, Metabase Enterprise, and a cloud product, Metabase Cloud. The company reports 98 million downloads and usage by more than 30,000 companies across 200 countries. Metabase was developed inside venture studio Expa and spun out to simplify data discovery and insights. Management is investing in product development, performance improvements, and customer education to help users learn how to ask questions and derive value from data. The company plans to expand its sales team to support growth of its commercial offerings. Metabase is an open-source business intelligence data platform launched in 2015 and based in San Francisco. Its platform lets non-technical users ask questions of company data, filter and group results, explore individual records and relationships, and visualize findings via charts and graphs without writing SQL. The product serves as a starting point for how companies measure, analyze and share data and includes tools to handle growing data complexity. Customers cited in the article include N26, Color, Treebo, Paychech, GlobalGiving and GoJek. The company recently completed a financing and plans to use proceeds to hire talent to improve the product and support its community of users, developers and partners. The business remains focused on expanding product capabilities and community support around its open-source offering.

Total raised

$38M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2021