Looker

Santa Cruz, California, US Software Acquired

Looker is a cloud-based business intelligence and data exploration platform that provides data visualization, analytics, and business intelligence tools. The platform emphasizes data governance through its LookML modeling language, creating a centralized semantic layer for consistent analytics across organizations. Looker is now part of Google Cloud Platform following its acquisition in 2020.

Acquired

Looker has been acquired

Acquired by Google February 13, 2020 $2.6B

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2012

Employees

500+

Total Funding

$282.5M

6 rounds

Latest Valuation

$1.6B

December 6, 2018

Funding

Total raised $282.5M across 6 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series E

Date

December 6, 2018

Amount

$103M

Valuation

$1.6B

Lead Investors

Premji Invest
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
December 6, 2018 Series E $103M $1.6B Premji Invest
2017 Series D $81.5M CapitalG
January 14, 2016 Series C $48M Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Leadership

  • Lloyd Tabb

    Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer

  • Ben Porterfield

    Co-founder

  • Frank Bien

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Jen Grant

    Chief Marketing Officer

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