Sigma Scores Massive $200 Million Investment

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Sigma&comma; a cloud analytics solution&comma; has raised &dollar;200 million in Series D financing to continue transforming <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;sigmacomputing&period;com&percnt;2F&percnt;3Futm&lowbar;source&percnt;3Dbusinesswire&percnt;26utm&lowbar;medium&percnt;3Dpr&percnt;2B&percnt;26utm&lowbar;campaign&percnt;3Dseries&lowbar;d&amp&semi;esheet&equals;53998338&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20240516963033&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;BI&amp&semi;index&equals;1&amp&semi;md5&equals;dd0b572c5e13b6eacd6323c592f996f4" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">BI<&sol;a> through its innovations in AI infrastructure&comma; data application development&comma; enterprise-wide collaboration&comma; and business user adoption&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the round with additional investments from new investor NewView Capital&period; All previous investors participated in the round&comma; including Snowflake Ventures&comma; Sutter Hill Ventures&comma; D1 Ventures&comma; Xn Ventures&comma; and Altimeter Capital&period; The Series D funding&comma; raised at a valuation 60&percnt; higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago&comma; promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Spark Capital is proud to partner with Sigma on its journey toward building a market leading data analytics platform&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been amazing to witness how quickly Sigma becomes pervasive within a company once users get their hands on the tool and are empowered to make faster&comma; smarter&comma; and more data-driven business decisions&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said James Kuklinski&comma; General Partner&comma; Spark Capital&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Unique features like Sigma’s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;sigmacomputing&period;com&percnt;2Fproduct&percnt;2Finput-tables&percnt;3Futm&lowbar;source&percnt;3Dbusinesswire&percnt;26utm&lowbar;medium&percnt;3Dpr&percnt;2B&percnt;26utm&lowbar;campaign&percnt;3Dseries&lowbar;d&amp&semi;esheet&equals;53998338&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20240516963033&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;Input&plus;Tables&amp&semi;index&equals;2&amp&semi;md5&equals;7e8081f074ed818a711d39f6d30da7cb" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">Input Tables<&sol;a> allow teams to effortlessly incorporate deeper context into their analyses by bringing their own data directly into the cloud data warehouse&comma; all without writing any code&period; That kind of capability spreads like wildfire through enterprises and unlocks a new level of decision-making and collaboration&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As users of Sigma ourselves&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve experienced firsthand how powerful it is to democratize access to data and get it into the hands of users in an interface they are familiar with&comma;” said Jared Sleeper&comma; Partner&comma; Avenir Growth Capital&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For the first time&comma; people in charge of making business decisions can access their organizations&&num;8217&semi; data as if it were in a spreadsheet&comma; building conviction and generating insights faster than ever before&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Added Nick Bunick&comma; Principal&comma; NewView Capital&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s rare to see software proliferate across organizations the way Sigma has&comma; which speaks to how exceptional Sigma&&num;8217&semi;s team and product is&period; What makes Sigma so unique is the ability to use their product across SQL&comma; Python&comma; spreadsheets and natural language as a true warehouse and lakehouse native product&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This past year&comma; Sigma has demonstrated significant momentum&comma; achieving record growth in revenues&comma; new logo acquisition&comma; and expansion of its partner ecosystem&period; Sigma is helping enterprises realize new value from their cloud transformation by improving the scale and security of BI&comma; adding previously impossible functionality like warehouse writeback&comma; real-time collaboration&comma; and application development&period; Sigma’s customers are able to adopt its platform across all departments without having to train on new skills&comma; resulting in immediate data democratization&comma; high velocity and higher accuracy decision-making&comma; collaboration&comma; and workflow automation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sigma is proving that there is deep market demand for driving greater productivity and monetization as a result of the cloud data transition&period; Just as infrastructure has consolidated on just a few cloud providers&comma; and cloud data with even fewer application providers&comma; Sigma is the winner in the application space&comma; enabling everyone&comma; from the least to the most technical employees&comma; to gain new value from their cloud investment&comma;” said Mike Palmer&comma; Sigma CEO&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the product enhancements we’re rolling out related to AI&comma; Python and data applications&comma; Sigma is defining the next category of data platforms and&comma; as a result&comma; also driving industry leading growth and adoption from the Fortune 10 to the latest startup&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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