Census vs Looker
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Reverse ETL platform syncing data from Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift into Salesforce, HubSpot, and 200+ tools; raised $60M Series B from a16z;
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Census is a reverse ETL and data activation platform that syncs data from warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift) into business tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Intercom, and 200+ other applications, enabling data teams to operationalize analytics insights without building custom pipelines. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, Census coined the term "reverse ETL" to describe the category it created: moving data from the warehouse back into the operational tools where sales, marketing, and success teams work.
Google Cloud BI platform with LookML semantic layer ensuring consistent metric definitions across enterprises; $2.6B Google acquisition competing with Tableau and Power BI for enterprise self-service analytics.
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Looker is a business intelligence and data analytics platform now part of Google Cloud — providing the LookML data modeling language, self-service exploration tools, embedded analytics, and natural language querying capabilities that enable data teams to define metrics once and make them available consistently across the organization. Founded in 2012 in Santa Cruz, California by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, Looker was acquired by Google for $2.6 billion in 2019 and has been integrated into Google Cloud as the primary BI platform alongside Google Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio).
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