September 2019 Summaries

Fivetran has secured $44 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company plans to use the funds to strengthen its automated products and expand hiring across all office locations and roles. Founded in 2013, Fivetran aims to provide a single database that records every fact about every event occurring within a business. Its product is designed to simplify complex ETL pipelines requiring constant maintenance. The company has experienced rapid growth over the past few years due to its focus on hiding complexity behind a simple interface and fostering a unique, employee-centric culture.

Fivetran introduces "Powered by Fivetran," an offering that makes embedding automated data connectors easier than ever. The new feature, Connect Card, is an embeddable setup form that enables users to securely pass and authenticate credentials directly to Fivetran via a secure HTTPS connection without needing to touch your own servers. Additionally, extended API capabilities for developers have been introduced, including a New Destination Management API, Group Management API, Connector Management API, and Database Schema Config. These updates are designed to make it easier to automate the embedded Fivetran experience so that users can set it up and forget it.