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Since the dawn of the database, companies have aspired to unlock valuable insights from their data. The explosion of activity and opportunity with AI only elevates the possibilities. Many business intelligence (BI) platforms have long sought to solve this challenge, yet the fundamental problem persists: balancing data governance and modeling with analytical flexibility. Despite multiple generations of innovation and large businesses built over many decades, no solution has fully bridged this gap. The rise of modern data warehouses, bespoke data workflows, and AI-native applications—dependent on verified, reliable data—has only amplified the criticality of getting this right. Now more than ever, businesses need a solution that empowers both technical and non-technical users with trustworthy insights. That is why today, we are thrilled to partner with Omni and lead the company’s Series B as they strive to redefine business intelligence for the modern era.
Founded in 2022 by Colin Zima, Jamie Davidson, and Chris Merrick, Omni has reimagined the BI landscape, bringing together governance, flexibility and self-service in a single, intuitive platform. The platform’s layered data architecture helps ensure that insights are grounded in a solid data foundation, allowing users to query, analyze, and visualize data using SQL, spreadsheets, AI-powered prompts or simple point-and-click dashboards.
More importantly, Omni enables all users to work with data, no matter how technical they are, making it possible for organizations to scale data access across teams without sacrificing accuracy, performance or control. This accessibility also extends to Omni’s embedded analytics solution—allowing businesses to deliver critical insights for their end customers directly inside their own products.
Omni’s differentiated approach to business intelligence, combined with its deep commitment to customers, has driven remarkable adoption. Over 200 companies—including BambooHR, Perplexity, Writer, and BuzzFeed—are leveraging Omni to unify governance and self-service, streamlining how their teams interact with data. With its strong product philosophy and customer-centric approach, Omni has achieved 8x year-over-year growth in customer usage.
We have known Omni’s founders—Colin, Jamie, and Chris—since the company’s earliest days. With decades of experience in data and business intelligence at Looker, Google, Stitch and Talend, they deeply understood the limitations of existing BI solutions and built a strong appreciation for the enduring needs of customers. Their learned experiences and insights have positioned them to build a platform tailored for the modern data user. Over the years, we have had the privilege of seeing the vision come to life, watching as they have built a best-in-class team and a product that fundamentally reshapes how organizations interact with data. They have shipped with velocity and focus and transparently highlight this in a weekly demo heartbeat.
Over the years, we introduced Omni to a few of our portfolio companies, including ones that quickly became enamored with Omni and converted to large customers—going all-in on Omni. This first-hand experience reinforced our conviction that Omni is delivering an incredible experience enabling companies to combine the flexibility of traditional BI tools with the power of a governed data model to democratize data analytics.
Additionally, we believe that as businesses increasingly leverage the enormous power of AI, the need for a robust data model at the center has never been more important. Omni is well-positioned to lead from the front of this transformation, offering enterprises a scalable, future-oriented solution that helps ensure AI-driven decisions are built on reliable, high-quality data.
We are excited to support Omni in this next chapter and work alongside Colin, Jamie, Chris, and the entire Omni team as they continue to push the boundaries of what is possible with data. Welcome, Omni!
Published:
March 14, 2025
