Bigeye Opens Eyes With $45 Million Series B

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Bigeye&comma; the provider of a leading data observability platform&comma; has snagged &dollar;45 million in Series B funding&period; Bigeye says it has doubled usage each of the last four quarters and added to its existing roster of customers&comma; like Instacart&comma; with new customers&comma; including Clubhouse&comma; Recharge&comma; and Udacity&period; Led by Coatue and with participation from existing investors&comma; Sequoia Capital and Costanoa Ventures&comma; the latest round follows on a &dollar;17 million Series A from just 6 months earlier and brings total funding to &dollar;66 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the funding&comma; Bigeye will scale its team to address the rising demand for data observability&comma; continue building on its product leadership&comma; and help more data teams prevent customer-facing data outages&comma; save expensive engineering hours&comma; and build greater trust in the data&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We started our journey with Bigeye as a customer&period; We were impressed by the strength of the platform&comma; their unique approach&comma; and how that approach directly related to the potential size of Bigeye&&num;8217&semi;s opportunity&comma;” said Caryn Marooney&comma; General Partner at Coatue&comma; who is joining the Board&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are looking forward to partnering with Kyle&comma; Egor&comma; and the entire team as they continue to scale&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Helping modern data teams move faster with confidence<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bigeye’s customer roster covers a growing range of industries&comma; including food delivery&comma; financial services&comma; machine learning providers&comma; ed-tech&comma; and more&period; Data teams use the platform to quantify and improve data quality and ensure reliable data pipelines for business-critical applications&comma; including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"bwlistdisc">&NewLine;<li><b>Self-service analytics&colon; <&sol;b>Bigeye customers like Instacart and Udacity make data-driven decisions an integral part of the way they grow their customer bases&period; Their data teams leverage Bigeye to monitor the data behind crucial analytics tools and ensure that strategic growth decisions are made on high-quality data&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>ML and AI initiatives&colon; <&sol;b>Bigeye customers like Clubhouse and Rev are innovating with ML and AI to improve service and better engage their users&period; With Bigeye&comma; data engineers can proactively prevent disruptive data pipeline problems from reaching their data scientists&comma; who can then spend more time on high-value modeling activities&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Third-party data&colon; <&sol;b>Bigeye customers like Coatue and SignalFire ingest data from a huge variety of sources&period; They need to know that the data arrives on schedule and meets their quality standards at all times&period; With Bigeye&comma; customers are able to automate that monitoring&comma; giving them broader and more comprehensive visibility and ensuring that their data team workflows are never disrupted&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ensuring data quality doesn’t mean you have to go slow&period; In fact&comma; if you address data quality with Bigeye&comma; your team can actually move faster because they have trust in the data&comma;” said Dustin Pearce&comma; VP of Infrastructure at Instacart&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re a small team&comma; and we serve a massive community&period; Bigeye&&num;8217&semi;s monitoring tools help us know that our data is accurate and up to date&comma; no matter how fast we&&num;8217&semi;re shipping&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Kenny D&&num;8217&semi;Amica&comma; head of data science at Clubhouse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have a strong data-driven culture&period; Our business analysts&comma; data scientists&comma; and data-savvy business users rely on key data sets on a daily basis to better serve our millions of students&period; It’s imperative that we prevent anomalies from slipping through and negatively affecting their analysis&period; With Bigeye&comma; we have an integrated one-stop solution for monitoring the health of our data — the ultimate answer as to whether our data is good or not&comma;” said Simon Dong&comma; head of data engineering at Udacity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the complexity of our data and the rate of change our business is undergoing&comma; we needed a different approach to data quality&period; Bigeye provides an accessible&comma; powerful&comma; and agile data observability platform that benefits our entire organization&period; On day two of using Bigeye&comma; we were putting checks in place to prevent issues that could have otherwise negatively impacted our business&period; By week three&comma; we had elevated trust in our critical datasets and empowered the SMEs on our analytics teams to measure new context about what good data quality is&comma;” said Yuda Borochov&comma; CDO of Zip Co&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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