INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels
It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under the leadership of Thomas Kurian
Today, the company announced that deal has officially closed and Looker is part of the Google Cloud Platform.While Kurian was happy to
announce that Looker was officially part of the Google family, he made it clear in a blog post that the analytics arm would continue to
As more organizations adopt a multi-cloud strategy, Looker customers and partners can expect continued support of all cloud data management
this, Looker CEO Frank Bien sees the much larger Google giving his company the resources to grow much faster than it could have on its own
cloud infrastructure to build an exciting path forward for our customers and partners
Looker fills in a spot in the visualization stack while continuing to support other clouds.Slide: GoogleLooker was founded in 2011 and
raised more than $280 million, according to Crunchbase
Investors included Redpoint, Meritech Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins, CapitalG and PremjiInvest
The last deal before the acquisition was a $103 million Series E investment on a $1.6 billion valuation in December 2018.
