
Looker Stock
Business intelligence software and big data analytics platform
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About Looker Stock
Looker is a business intelligence platform. Looker uses SQL and operates a data analytics platform that aims to help companies get real value from their data. Looker is an end-user platform, where Looker helps to output data and metrics through dashboards, exploration and shared insights. Looker takes a company's data sources, such as Salesforce, Google Analytics, and Netsuite, and extracts the data into a SQL database, requiring no heavyweight transformation. Looker's data platform will then use custom business logic to provide reporting tools.
How It Works
Through its platform, Looker aims to provide a unified data analytics platform for the end user and product teams. Below are the product features for each user type:
Looker provides its platform for eCommerce, media, ad tech, SaaS, healthcare, gaming and fintech companies. The Company is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA and has offices in San Francisco, New York City, London and Dublin.
Looker Overview
Investors
CapitalG
Lyft, Airbnb, Stripe, UiPath, Convoy, Dataiku, Whatnot, Unqork, CrowdStrike, MX Technologies
First Round Capital
Flexport, AppNexus, Bowery Farming, Goat Group, Blue Apron, SingleStore, DoubleVerify, Clover Health, Fab, Roblox
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Snap, AppDynamics, Spotify, Instacart, Stripe, Magic Leap, DoorDash, Bloom Energy, Slack, Brex
Meritech Capital Partners
UiPath, DataRobot, FTX Exchange, Cloudera, Box, Domo, Alto Pharmacy, Outreach, Lime, MuleSoft
Redpoint Ventures
Stripe, Pure Storage, Collective Health, Whatnot, Twilio, HashiCorp, DraftKings, MapR Technologies, Sonos, Looker
Funding History
August 2012 | $2.0M |
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August 2013 | $16.0M |
February 2015 | $30.0M |
December 2015 | $41.9M |
March 2017 | $81.5M |
November 2018 | $103M |
Management
CEO
Frank Bien
Founder, Chairman & CTO
Lloyd Tabb
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering
Ben Porterfield
CFO
Joe Moran
Press
TechCrunch - Mar, 30 2020
Turbo Systems hires former Looker CMO Jen Grant as CEOForbes - Sep, 29 2019
The Department Of Customer LoveTechCrunch - Jun, 7 2019
Google continues to preach multi-cloud approach with Looker acquisitionTechCrunch - Jun, 6 2019
Daily Crunch: Google is acquiring LookerWall Streets Journal - Jun, 6 2019
Chernova’s Take: With Looker Sale, PivotNorth Makes the Case for Traditional VC ApproachWall Streets Journal - Jun, 6 2019
Google’s Looker Deal Fills Hole in Analytics PortfolioTechCrunch - Jun, 6 2019
Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billionNew York Times - Mar, 11 2019
Women Finally Get Their Own World Cup Soccer StyleTechCrunch - Dec, 6 2018
Looker snags $103 million investment on $1.6 billion valuationAsk a Reporter - Dec, 4 2018
Global Dashboard Software Market 2018 – IBM, Dundas, Looker, InetSoft, Board, Sage Live, Izenda, Halo, ClicData, SAPSanta Cruz Sentinel - Nov, 28 2018
Looker expanding in Santa Cruz, internationallyprweb - Mar, 12 2018
Keboola Announces Partnership with Lookercomputerworlduk - Feb, 15 2018
How Deliveroo uses data to deliver food whatever the weatherbusinesswire - Feb, 13 2018
Looker Enhances Self-Service Analytics for Everyday Business UsersTechCrunch - Sep, 14 2017
Looker's latest looks to simplify data integrationsprweb - Jul, 31 2017
The Best Business Intelligence Platforms Software According to G2 Crowd Summer 2017 Rankings, Based on User ReviewsForbes - Mar, 30 2017
Looker Eyes Ownership Of Crowded Business Intelligence Field With $81.5M From AlphabetTechCrunch - Mar, 30 2017
Looker catches the fancy of CapitalG, Goldman and Geodesic with $81.5M Series DEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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