Astrato, the cloud-native BI platform that empowers teams to build and share live, self-serve analytics directly on top of their cloud data warehouse, today announced a $5 million seed round led by Big Pi Ventures, with participation from Propelling Tech Ventures and more than 30 strategic angels from the global data and analytics community.
Founded by the team behind Vizlib (a Qlik visualisation add-on that scaled to $22m in ARR before being acquired in 2023), Astrato is rethinking BI for the cloud-native era — and growing fast, scaling revenue 5x YoY as demand for modern, AI-powered analytics takes off. The platform replaces monolithic, read-only dashboards with live, flexible data applications that support real-time collaboration, embedded analytics, and AI-accelerated exploration.
Astrato is warehouse-agnostic and sits atop cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Clickhouse. Thanks to its composable architecture, teams can rapidly assemble and reuse modular components – like KPI tiles, writeback forms, AI summaries, charts and filters – making it fast and easy to build interactive data apps, publish live dashboards, update forecasts, and embed branded analytics in customer-facing products. This flexibility brings powerful, self-service analytics to the fingertips of non-technical users.
As organisations shift to cloud-first data architectures – centralising governance and scaling without duplication – the limitations of legacy BI platforms like Qlik and Tableau are becoming impossible to ignore. Designed for desktop-era reporting, they struggle to support the speed, scale, and interactivity modern teams expect.
Astrato delivers on this shift with a live, no-code platform built to power the next generation of data experiences. Acting as the execution layer for the modern data stack, Astrato brings together live queries, AI-driven insights, writeback, and embedded workflows – turning rigid dashboards into lightweight data apps that drive decisions in real time.
From revenue modelling in finance to performance tracking in marketing or customer-facing analytics in product, teams use Astrato to operationalise data faster. And because it runs directly on the warehouse and embeds wherever users work – internal tools, intranets, or SaaS products – Astrato delivers governed insights at the moment of action.
Astrato competes in the modern BI space alongside Sigma, Omni Analytics, and Equals, but sets itself apart with its cloud-native architecture, intuitive no-code interface, and unique writeback capabilities. Unlike spreadsheet-based tools or legacy platforms, Astrato makes it easy to embed governed, real-time analytics directly into products and workflows, empowering business teams to act on data, not just view it.
With this new capital, Astrato will expand its go-to-market and engineering teams, while accelerating development of AI-native features for exploration, automation, and intelligent decision workflows.
