Cube Dev Raises $15.5M to Help Companies Build Applications with Cloud Data Warehouses

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19, 2021– Cube Dev, an open-source company behind the popular Cube.js data tool, today announced $15.5 million in funding to scale go-to-market activities and accelerate the development of its first commercial product that helps customers build applications powered by cloud data warehouses with greater speed and flexibility.

Decibel led the Series A round with Bain Capital Ventures, Betaworks and Eniac Ventures participating, bringing Cube Dev’s total funding to $23.6 million.

When companies build data applications such as metrics dashboards or customer-facing analytics features, their developers must solve technical issues including SQL generation, query orchestration and acceleration, security, consistent metrics definitions and API design. As an alternative to building and maintaining these solutions, Cube Dev offers a headless abstraction layer between cloud data warehouses and data applications. This dramatically reduces application development time from weeks to hours.

“Big data is only a powerful weapon when it can be placed in the hands of users,” said Jon Sakoda, founder and managing partner of Decibel, who will join Cube Dev’s board of directors. “Every application needs access to data from cloud data warehouses, but very few developers have the time to learn the technical skills required for complex data engineering. Cube Dev’s headless analytics API makes it possible for application developers to accelerate the development and deployment of applications leveraging cloud data platforms. We’re thrilled to work with such a talented team as they expand their product portfolio and rapidly growing open source community.”

Cube Dev has quickly become an emerging leader in open source data access, aggregation and acceleration tools, garnering over 10,000 stars on GitHub for its Cube.js platform, which has been installed on more than 200,000 servers including at numerous Fortune 500 firms.

Demand for these kinds of capabilities continues to grow, as analysts forecast the global cloud database and DBaaS market size to grow from USD 12.0 billion in 2020 to USD 24.8 billion by 2025, a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.7%.

Customer demand for Cube Dev’s technology is high, with early success stories that include Simon Data, the customer data platform; COTA, the healthcare technology firm; Cyndx, the financial services analytics tool; and Jobber, the management software for small home service businesses.

“Our predictive analytics tools help the world’s largest financial services companies identify emerging companies, growth opportunities and other investment opportunities,” said Sebastian Okser, Chief Technology Officer at Cyndx. “We compared the full spectrum of business intelligence tools, but none of them provided the flexibility that allows users to dig deeper and customize analytics for their organizations that Cube Dev does.”

Cube Dev also announced the appointment of two executives to support the company’s commercial expansion. Jonathan E. Cowperthwait joins as Head of Marketing, having previously served as Vice President of Marketing at npm, the world’s largest open source registry; and Jordan Philips joins as Head of Revenue Operations, having most recently served as Head of Revenue Operations and Go-To-Market Strategy at Dashbase (now Cisco AppDynamics).

In addition to expanding its commercial operations, Cube Dev is expanding its engineering and developer relations teams to accelerate the development of its Cube.js open source platform and upcoming SaaS product offerings. Click here to learn more.

About Cube Dev

Cube Dev helps companies translate big data into innovative data-powered applications with greater ease, speed and flexibility. Founded by Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov in 2016, the company has garnered over 10,000 stars on GitHub for its Cube.js open source data API platform, which has been installed on more than 200,000 servers including at numerous Fortune 500 firms. Based in San Francisco, Cube Dev is backed by Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Betaworks and Eniac Ventures. To learn more visit https://cube.dev/.

About Decibel

Decibel is an independent venture firm, based in Silicon Valley. We back technical founders and help them find product-market fit and accelerate their momentum.

We invest in Seed, Series A, and Series B stage software companies, with a special focus on Developer Platforms, Open Source, Cybersecurity, and ML and AI Infrastructure and Applications. We’ve built a large and growing network of early adopters and buyers of new technology products and connect them to our portfolio companies. We also help them define and run their marketing and sales playbooks by connecting them with best practices and our rich network of advisors who include successful founders and executives from our community.

Source: Cube Dev