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Just over five years ago, I met Lightdash’s now co-founder and CTO Oliver Laslett to try and offer him a job at Moonfire. But when he told me he was starting a company and had been accepted to YC I offered to invest instead. Oliver and co-founder and CEO Hamzah Chaudhary graduated from YC's S20 cohort with a tool called Hubble, which helped companies identify issues with data quality. But when they realised this would be most useful inside a BI tool, they pivoted, focusing instead on empowering data analytics teams with the tools to be as productive as software engineers. Lightdash was born: an open-source business intelligence platform for modern data teams. Fast forward to today, Lightdash has announced their $11M Series A led by Accel with Shopify Ventures, Operator Partners and Y Combinator, plus Moonfire. Lightdash is now building a whole new way to self-serve data with the launch of an AI Analyst service, which allows users to chat with their data in natural language and receive relevant curated insights. Congratulations Oliver and Hamzah – there are more great things to come. https://lnkd.in/eNKavXAz