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Lightdash
Lightdash is an open-source business intelligence platform built natively on dbt. It turns a data team's dbt models into a governed semantic layer, letting analysts define metrics as code and letting everyone else explore data - and, increasingly, ask AI agents questions - without writing SQL. Founded in 2020 (originally as Hubble in Y Combinator's S20 batch), it positions itself as an open, developer-first alternative to Looker and is backed by Accel, Shopify Ventures, Operator Partners and Y Combinator.
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.