If you’ve ever tried getting real insight out of enterprise data, you know it’s like trying to find a melody in static, loud, confusing, and ultimately, a waste of your time. Everyone says “data is the new oil,” but no one tells you that 90% of it is crude sludge wrapped in a dashboard that hasn’t been touched since 2016. Enter Sundial, not just lighting the path, but reengineering the sun itself.
Founded in 2021, Sundial is the brainchild of Julie Zhuo and Chandrasekher Narayanan, a power duo that came not to play, but to build. Julie Zhuo, former VP of Product Design at Meta, has been designing the future before most people figured out Figma. Chandrasekher Narayanan, who’s seen the guts of both Sequoia Capital and Instagram, brings an analytics IQ that most companies would need five teams to replicate. Together, they didn’t just build another BI tool, they built a decision intelligence engine for people who know what questions matter.
And now, with a fresh $16M Series A led by DJ Patil at General Partner Ventures, Sundial isn’t just getting louder, it’s getting sharper. Backed by heavy hitters like Sequoia Capital, Sunflower Capital, Slow Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Tribe Capital, and Electric Capital, along with angel investors who’ve already shaped the Internet, Fidji Simo, Tobi Lütke, Amjad Masad, Drew Houston, Shishir Mehrotra, Alex Schultz, and others, this is the kind of cap table that doesn’t just bet on markets, it helps create them.
Let’s be clear: Sundial didn’t raise this round off vibes and a deck. They earned it with execution. Trusted by data leaders at OpenAI, Dropbox, Meta, and Grammarly, the platform condenses months of data wrangling into days. No SQL. No boilerplate dashboards. Just natural-language workflows, pre-computed insights, and agentic AI that actually understands the context. While others are still “exploring the use of LLMs,” Sundial is using proprietary models tuned for analytics, live, integrated, and in production.
What makes Sundial hit different isn’t just the tech, it’s the taste. The platform marries backend muscle (Python, Go, K8s) with enterprise-grade finesse (SOC2 Type II, role-based governance), delivered through interfaces that actually make sense. Add in integrations for Snowflake, BigQuery, REST APIs, and SDKs, and you’ve got the full-stack unification of ETL, dashboards, and decision support under one roof.
With Anoop Jawahar as CTO and Stanley Watt leading product, they’re stacking a leadership bench with the kind of resumes that make headhunters sweat. Plans? Big. Growing the team in San Francisco and Bengaluru. Shipping self-serve AI agents. Building deeper bridges to verticals in finance, retail, and healthcare. And if you’re still playing with spreadsheets and hoping for clarity, you’re officially out of excuses.
Sundial’s not just building tools. They’re building foresight. And in a world flooded with data but starving for decisions, that’s the only currency that matters.
