Observable Announces $35.6 Million Series B Funding

Observable, the data collaboration company, today announced it has closed a $35.6 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital also participated in this round, which brings the total invested capital to $46.1 million. Observable is a collaborative, web-based platform for data practitioners and the decision makers they empower. The funding will support the company’s growth and continued platform innovation.

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“The most promising enterprise tools are those that enable organizations to share and collaborate with information more freely”

Data-driven decision making is core to the success of every business, yet there is no platform that connects across lines of business to bring together the data workflow (explore, analyze, build reports and dashboards) for data analysis teams, and their executives. According to Observable’s State of Dataviz 2021 Report, data practitioners often use three or more tools to do their jobs, out of a possible landscape of more than 180 different tools. This “tool hopping” makes data-based work slow, error-prone and frustrating. Data scientists, data analysts, business and financial analysts, developers, business executives and the estimated 750+ million Microsoft Excel and 800+million Google Sheets users need a new way to get their work done.

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“Data is the world’s most powerful asset. We are building an environment where anyone can see and manipulate data to more fully understand and communicate the story it tells,” said Melody Meckfessel, CEO and co-founder. “Collaboration is at the center of work, whether it’s between teams at a multinational corporation or among our community of dataviz creators who are constantly building, sharing, and learning from each other. Observable is empowering millions of people to understand their data better, together.”

Collaborative Data Canvas Powered By Community

The Observable data canvas brings data, context, and logic together in one place so that data practitioners can accelerate data-driven insights and decision-making. Observable enables real-time, multi-player collaboration with transparent data interrogation.

There is no set-up cost or special tooling required; data practitioners simply open any browser and start working immediately from the extensive library of templates or code snippets, or reuse one of the thousands of examples created by the Observable community. Data practitioners can connect to their data from multiple sources including databases (such as Snowflake, BigQuery), and cloud-connected files (such as Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets). It is designed to support and work with building blocks such as D3.js, Observable Plot, and everything in between. Users can take their insights and charts where they want, like embedding them in React apps or other web environments.

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