Observable offers a collaborative, browser-based data canvas that brings data, context, and logic together for data practitioners and decision makers. The platform supports real-time, multi-player collaboration, connections to data sources such as Snowflake and BigQuery, and reuse of templates and community-created examples. It is designed to interoperate with tools and libraries like D3.js and Observable Plot, and lets users embed visualizations into web apps. Observable serves teams at more than 150 organizations and is backed by a community of more than five million people engaged. The company offers two paid product tiers aimed at SMB and enterprise customers. The announced funding is intended to support the company’s growth and continued platform innovation. Observable provides a web-first, interactive platform that lets developers, data scientists, journalists, educators and others create, explore, and visualize data together using JavaScript and D3.js. The product emphasizes expressive, interactive, transparent, and collaborative visualizations and hosts the largest library of reusable visualizations. Observable reports more than 4.7M users and has powered major data stories on elections, COVID-19, and wildfire air quality. Organizations including Stitch Fix and classes at MIT use the platform to analyze and present data. Founded and led by Mike Bostock (creator of D3.js) and Melody Meckfessel (former Google VP Engineering), Observable aims to democratize data literacy and make working with data more collaborative and accessible. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.

Total raised

$46M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jan 2022