# Rill Data

> Rill Data builds the fastest business intelligence tool for humans and AI agents. Founded in 2020 by Metamarkets veteran Michael Driscoll, Rill takes a BI-as-code approach: dashboards, metrics, and business logic are defined in SQL and YAML, versioned in Git, and powered by embedded OLAP engines (DuckDB in Rill Developer, ClickHouse and Apache Druid in Rill Cloud). The result is sub-second, operational dashboards that teams actually use - processing more than 100 billion daily events for customers in programmatic advertising, media, and fintech.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Driscoll (Co-Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~37 employees
- **Products:** Rill Developer, Rill Cloud, BI-as-code / Semantic Layer, Conversational BI & MCP integration, Embedded dashboards & APIs
- **Notable:** Raised $12M seed round in 2022 led by True Ventures with Bloomberg Beta, Sierra Ventures, DCVC and Park West, Open-source Rill Developer surpassed 2.7k GitHub stars, Processes 100+ billion daily events for customers including Bloomberg, Comcast and AT&T

## Products & services

- **Rill Developer** — Open-source (Apache 2.0), locally-run BI tool with an embedded DuckDB OLAP engine. Analysts connect to a data lake or warehouse, model data in SQL, and get an exploratory metrics dashboard in seconds.
- **Rill Cloud** — Hosted deployment layer powered by ClickHouse and Apache Druid, serving fast operational dashboards to teams at scale with Git-backed deployments and CI/CD.
- **BI-as-code / Semantic Layer** — Dashboards, dimensions, measures, and business logic defined in SQL and YAML code artifacts, versioned in Git, so teams build and ship analytics like software.
- **Conversational BI & MCP integration** — Natural-language querying and an MCP server that connects AI agents directly to live metrics for agent-driven analysis.
- **Embedded dashboards & APIs** — Embeddable dashboards, row-level access policies, and APIs for building analytics into customer-facing products.

## Achievements

- Raised $12M seed round in 2022 led by True Ventures with Bloomberg Beta, Sierra Ventures, DCVC and Park West
- Open-source Rill Developer surpassed 2.7k GitHub stars
- Processes 100+ billion daily events for customers including Bloomberg, Comcast and AT&T
- Helped popularize the 'BI-as-code' category
- Founding team previously built the database open-sourced as Apache Druid

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Positioned as agent-first BI: dashboards and metrics authored by AI agents via YAML/SQL, with an MCP server connecting agents to live metrics.
- **2025-09** — Published data-modeling guide and joint case study with ClickHouse on real-time operational BI for programmatic advertising and metered workloads.
- **2023-04** — Deepened DuckDB integration and open-sourced Rill Developer for local, exploratory analysis.
- **2022-08** — Emerged from stealth with a $12M seed round to reimagine business dashboards.

## Links

- Website: https://www.rilldata.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rilldata
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RillData
- GitHub: https://github.com/rilldata/rill
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/rilldata

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Last updated: 2026-07-03