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    Sequoia, GPV Back Sundial With $23M to Streamline Enterprise Analytics

    Sundial has validation from early customers like OpenAI

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    Sequoia, GPV Back Sundial With $23M to Streamline Enterprise Analytics

    In 2023, as ChatGPT’s user base rocketed from millions to hundreds of millions, OpenAI faced a familiar bottleneck: its small analytics team couldn’t keep up with the surge in insight requests. The company needed instant answers: what was driving growth, where users were churning, why ARR dipped last week. Building internal dashboards to answer those questions would have taken months. Instead, OpenAI adopted Sundial.

    “We went from raw logging to comprehensive data visibility virtually overnight,” said David Sasaki, VP of Analytics and Insights at OpenAI. “Sundial automated complex data engineering work that would have taken our small team months to build internally.”

    Founded in 2021 by former Meta executives Chandra Narayanan and Julie Zhuo, Sundial is an AI-powered analytics platform designed to compress the time between observation and action, and interpret data. In a landscape crowded with dashboards, notebooks, and fragmented data pipelines, Sundial offers an integrated platform that marries AI with expert analytical frameworks to help companies make better decisions faster.

    From Meta Playbooks to a New Kind of Data Platform

    Both Narayanan and Zhuo brought years of experience from Meta, where they saw firsthand what great data-informed decision-making looks like. Extreme alignment, curiosity, and urgency were the hallmarks. They soon realized most companies lacked the tools to replicate that level of rigor and speed.

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