Meltano spins out of GitLab, raises Seed funding to bring data integration into the DataOps era
Today is a big day for Meltano and open source data tooling: Three years after starting inside GitLab, and one year after pivoting to open source ELT with Singer and dbt, Meltano is now an independent startup! We have spun out of GitLab and raised a $4.2M Seed funding round led by GV to bring the benefits of open source data integration and DataOps to a wider audience.
The past year has been great for Meltano, Singer, and the broader open source data community. From the day we pivoted to focus on building a great open source platform for ELT pipelines and started embracing Singer, the de-facto standard for community-maintained data connectors, we’ve seen our usage, contributions, and Slack activity grow faster than we could have predicted or hoped. This confirmed the market’s appetite for modern data tooling built around open source technologies and DevOps principles, and gave us renewed confidence in Meltano’s future.
This newfound success made it possible to bring two more people onto the team earlier this year: Taylor Murphy has been a long-time internal user and advisor and joined from the GitLab data team. AJ Steers was an early contributor with years of experience building internal DataOps tooling at AWS and Slalom. Just in the past three months, with a lot of help from our ever-growing community, we released the Meltano SDK, which makes it easier than ever to build new Singer taps and targets, launched MeltanoHub, which catalogs community-maintained connectors for hundreds of sources and destinations, and grew our Slack community to a whopping 1200 data professionals.
