Metabase
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that simplifies data analysis, allowing everyone in a company to create dashboards and share insights without needing to know SQL.
Founding Story
Metabase was born out of Expa, Garrett Camp's startup studio. Founder Sameer Al-Sakran, then an Entrepreneur in Residence at Expa, wanted to solve the problem of data accessibility by creating a simple, low-code tool that non-technical team members could use to query data. The project was developed as an open-source tool for four years before introducing paid managed services.
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Leadership
Founders
Sameer Al-Sakran
Founder & CEO of Metabase. Previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Expa, Advisor and CTO at Expa, CTO at Blackjet, and Founder of White Label Labs. Background in data science and software engineering.
Caspar von Seckendorff
Co-founder & CTO of Metabase. Previously Software Engineer at Expa and has a background in backend engineering and open-source systems.
Executive Team
Sameer Al-Sakran
CEO & Co-founder
Former EIR and CTO at Expa; Founder of White Label Labs; data scientist and engineer.
Caspar von Seckendorff
CTO & Co-founder
Former Software Engineer at Expa with extensive experience in backend Clojure and database schemas.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium open-source core with subscription-based cloud hosting (Starter/Pro) and enterprise-licensed software tiers.
Pricing Tiers
Self-hosted, unlimited queries, charts, and dashboards, community support.
Managed cloud, includes first 5 users, Metabot AI available as add-on, 3-day support.
Cloud or self-hosted, includes first 10 users, SSO/SCIM, row/column permissions, white-labeling, and Metabot AI.
Dedicated success engineer, procurement assistance, optional air-gapped/single-tenant hosting.
Target Markets
- SaaS & Startups
- E-commerce
- Fintech
- Product Teams
- Enterprise Data Teams
- Self-service internal analytics
- Embedded customer-facing reporting
- Product performance monitoring
- Enterprise data governance
- Zendesk
- Clover
- Fabulous
- Hurb
History & Milestones
Launched Metabase 59 and the new Data Studio for semantic layer and AI-powered SQL generation.
Achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance for Metabase Cloud.
Raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners.
Launched Metabase Cloud, a fully managed SaaS offering of the BI platform.
Raised $8 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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Open source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that lets teams query, visualize, and explore data without writing code.
