Observable raises $35.6Mn in its Series B round

Data collaboration startup Observable Inc., a cloud-based platform for visualizing and analyzing data, has raised $35.6 million in a Series B round of funding led by Menlo Ventures. The San Francisco-based company has raised a total of $46.1 million in funding to date.

The funding will support the company’s growth and continued platform innovation. Observable provides data collaboration tools that enable users within an organization to share and work on the same data.

It provides the ability to import records for analysis from cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, as well as Excel spreadsheets and other sources. The platform also makes it possible to access code and templates created by other Observable users.

Melody Meckfessel, CEO and Co-Founder of Observable, said, “We are building an environment where anyone can see and manipulate data to more fully understand and communicate the story it tells. Collaboration is at the center of work, whether it’s between teams at a multinational corporation or among our community of dataviz creators who are constantly building, sharing, and learning from each other. Observable is empowering millions of people to understand their data better, together.”

Observable enables real-time, multi-player collaboration with transparent data interrogation. The Observable data canvas brings data, context, and logic together in one place so that data practitioners can accelerate data-driven insights and decision-making.