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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2012; 13 years ago (2012) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | Santa Cruz, California ,U.S. |
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| Products | Business intelligence tools Data visualization tools Analytics tools Big data tools Data warehousing tools ETL tools |
Number of employees | 500 (July 2018) |
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| Website | looker |
Looker Data Sciences, Inc. is an Americancomputer software company headquartered inSanta Cruz, California. It was acquired byGoogle in 2019 and is now part of theGoogle Cloud Platform. Looker markets adata exploration and discoverybusiness intelligence platform.[1]
The company was founded in Santa Cruz, California in January 2012 by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield and occupied the historic Rittenhouse building there. The product grew out of Tabb's experience building software at companies likeNetscape,LiveOps, and Luminate before founding Looker.
Looker makes use of a simple modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships in their database, so business users can explore, save, and download data with only a basic understanding ofSQL.[2]The product was the first commercially availablebusiness intelligence platform built for and aimed at scalable ormassively parallelrelational database management systems likeAmazon Redshift, GoogleBigQuery, HPVertica,Netezza, andTeradata.
On June 21, 2016, Looker celebrated the release ofWinning With Data, a book coauthored by Looker CEO, Frank Bien and Redpoint Partner, Tomasz Tunguz.[3]
On June 6, 2019, Google announced it was acquiring Looker for $2.6 billion.[4][5][6] The acquisition was finalized February 2020.[7][8]
In March 2022, Looker's CEO, Frank Bien, left Google Cloud.[9]
On August 13, 2013, Looker announced a Series A round of funding fromRedpoint Ventures, First Round Capital, and PivotNorth Capital, raising more than $18M.[10] Prior to the Series A round, Looker raised $2M in a seed round fromFirst Round Capital andPivotNorth Capital.[10] On March 11, 2015, Looker raised $30M in series B funding.[11] In July 2015, Jen Grant joined as chief marketing officer, and the company estimated it has 140 employees.[12] On January 14, 2016, Looker raised $48M in series C funding fromKleiner Perkins.[13] At that time, the company estimated 450 customers, includingJet.com.[14] On March 30, 2017, Looker raised $81.5M in series D funding led by Capital G. On December 6, 2018, Looker raised $103M in series E funding led by Premji Invest.[15]
The Looker Platform for Data operates today as a part of Google Cloud Platform and offers a wide variety of tools forrelational database work,business intelligence, and other related services. Looker's 2019 revenue is estimated to be about $140 million.[16]
