Data Startup Omni Raises $69M to Fix Bad Analytics

Colin Zima spent years watching employees struggle with bad data tools. Now his startup Omni wants to fix that.

The company just landed $69 million in Series B funding at a $650 million valuation. Investors love Omni's fresh take on business intelligence - a platform that lets anyone slice data without a PhD in SQL queries.

Omni already helps over 200 companies like BuzzFeed and Perplexity crunch numbers. The platform speaks Excel's language and turns complex database queries into digestible dashboards. No more wrestling with clunky interfaces or missing features.

The San Francisco startup plans to double its 85-person team this year. Zima, Omni's CEO and a former Google Search quality chief, insists they'll spend wisely. "We've seen others burn through hundreds of millions trying to brute-force growth," he says. "That's not how we operate."

Why this matters:

• Business intelligence tools haven't changed much since the 80s. Omni drags them into 2025
• Companies desperately need better data tools but hate their current options - a $10 billion pain point Omni aims to solve