Setting up a stack of data tools is difficult for any startup to undertake, involving picking and choosing among a wide variety of tools and approaches. Mozart Data's founders have a background in data wrangling and have built a platform of tools that makes the decisions for you, while leaving room for flexibility for more adventurous customers.
Mozart has built the pieces into the stack in some cases, while in others it recommends what it considers best-in-class as it has done by choosing Snowflake as the default choice for a data lake on the Mozart platform of tools.
Peter Fishman told me that the idea is to have a data stack in a box of sorts that removes the complexity for startups who just want to get going quickly with a data platform.
He said that they wanted to be the easiest way for startups to get up and running. Fishman explained to me at the time of the company's seed round in 2020 that this involves everything, except data visualization.
We do all of the parts before the tool. We load the data. He said that they provide a layer for you to do transformations in the data warehouse.
He says they do it that way because they feel like customers know their data best, and they consider Mozart's job as to get the data to a point where you can decide how to best present it.
The company emerged from the Summer 2020 cohort with three customers. The company reports that since raising its seed capital in 2020, ARR has grown 500%.
It went from 6 employees in 2020 to over 20 today with more people joining with new capital. He looks at the top of the funnel when screening candidates for the best way to build a diverse company.
He says that he has been thinking about DEI since the beginning.
The company announced today that it has raised a fifteen million dollar Series A with participation from Goldcrest Capital, Spearhead, Apollo Projects and Valor Equity Partners.
Brian Murray, partner and COO at Craft Ventures says that they have been working with Mozart since its earliest days, and that the fact that the founders have a data background makes them uniquely suited to help solve it.
Data is a business asset. You don't know you need a data scientist until it's too late. Mozart helps companies spin up a modern data stack in minutes.
Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack
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