Omni raises $69M to design tools that help companies better analyze their data

Employees at many companies today are expected to make decisions through careful data analysis, but the tools they need to do it are clunky, slow or — in some cases — don’t exist. That’s according to Colin Zima, the CEO of Omni, a business intelligence (BI) platform that aims to help organizations simplify how they work with their data. Before co-founding Omni, Zima led the Search quality team at Google and was the chief analytics officer at Looker. “With cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery, legacy reliability is merging with modern scalability,” Zima told TechCrunch. “Yet tens of thousands of businesses remain tied to outdated BI processes. Modern organizations demand the agility of self-service analytics without compromising centralized control. That gap represents a massive market opportunity — it’s why Omni was born.” Omni’s platform lets users run ad-hoc data analyses and build charts and reports, and also provides tools to create visualizations with components su ... Read full article.