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Philadelphia-based Fishtown Analytics, the company behind the popular open-source data engineering tool dbt, today announced that it has raised a $12.9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with the firms general partner Martin Casado joining the companys board.I wrote this blog post in early 2016, essentially saying that analysts needed to work in a fundamentally different way, Fishtown founder and CEO Tristan Handy told me, when I asked him about how the product came to be.
They needed to work in a way that much more closely mirrored the way the software engineers work and software engineers have been figuring this shit out for years and data analysts are still like sending each other Microsoft Excel docs over email.The dbt open-source project forms the basis of this.
It allows anyone who can write SQL queries to transform data and then load it into their preferred analytics tools.
As such, it sits in-between data warehouses and the tools that load data into them on one end, and specialized analytics tools on the other.As Casado noted when I talked to him about the investment, data warehouses have now made it affordable for businesses to store all of their data before it is transformed.
So what was traditionally extract, transform, load (ETL) has now become extract, load, transform (ELT).
Andreessen Horowitz is already invested in Fivetran, which helps businesses move their data into their warehouses, so it makes sense for the firm to also tackle the other side of this business.Dbt is, as far as we can tell, the leading community for transformation and its a company weve been tracking for at least a year, Casado said.
He also argued that data analysts unlike data scientists are not really catered to as a group.Before this round, Fishtown hadnt raised a lot of money, even though it has been around for a few years now, except for a small SAFE round from Amplify.But Handy argued that the company needed this time to prove that it was on to something and build a community.
That community now consists of more than 1,700 companies that use the dbt project in some form and over 5,000 people in the dbt Slack community.
Fishtown also now has over 250 dbt Cloud customers and the company signed up a number of big enterprise clients earlier this year.
With that, the company needed to raise money to expand and also better service its current list of customers.We live in Philadelphia.
The cost of living is low here and none of us really care to make a quadro-billion dollars, but we do want to answer the question of how do we best serve the community, Handy said.
And for the first time, in the early part of the year, we were like, holy shit, we cant keep up with all of the stuff that people need from us.The company plans to expand the team from 25 to 50 employees in 2020 and with those, the team plans to improve and expand the product, especially its IDE for data analysts, which Handy admitted could use a bit more polish.





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