Funds and Beta Launch for Golden Analytics

US-based data platform Golden Analytics has raised $14 million in a seed funding extension, and is moving to public beta trials of its AI-native tools, which promise to 'instantly surface insight, patterns, and visualizations the moment users connect their data.'

Golden is led by CEO Francois Ajenstat, and offers users a 'slider of autonomy,' with which to select 'exactly how much AI assistance they want', from fully manual exploration to fully automated dashboard creation. The solution connects to existing data sources - cloud warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift, alongside files like Google Sheets and CSVs - and delivers answers to both technical and non-technical users.

The Bellevue, WA-headquartered firm says nearly 1,000 companies have requested early access to its software in the weeks since its emergence from stealth in April. The extension was led by Insight Partners, and brings total seed funding to $21 million.

'Our early design partners tell us Golden is faster, more flexible, and more empowering than anything they've used,' says Ajenstat. 'We're hearing from companies of every size and across every industry who are ready for a new generation of analytics built for the AI age, from the ground up.' Insight Partners MD Ganesh Bell adds: 'Business intelligence is one of the most critical and entrenched categories in enterprise software, yet BI tools have followed the same playbook for decades. Rather than retrofit AI onto a legacy product, Golden Analytics is rethinking the blueprint entirely, starting from first principles.'

Web site: www.goldenanalytics.com .

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