Sisense
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2004CEO / Founder
Itamar RothEmployees
501-1000Funding
Series D+ — $100MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
sisense.com/
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About Sisense
Sisense is a business intelligence software company founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY. The company was co-founded by Eldad Farkash and Elad Israeli and has historically focused on enabling organizations to analyze large and complex datasets without requiring dedicated data engineering resources. Sisense has offices in Tel Aviv, London, and other locations.
Sisense's primary product is an analytics platform that supports embedded analytics, allowing software companies to integrate data visualization and reporting capabilities directly into their own applications. The platform offers APIs and SDKs targeting developers who build analytics into third-party products, alongside self-service tools for business users. The company serves customers across industries including healthcare, financial services, and technology. Notable customers have included Nasdaq, Philips, and Skullcandy.
Sisense raised approximately $100 million across multiple funding rounds, including a $80 million Series E round in 2019 led by Vista Equity Partners. In 2023, Sisense experienced a significant cybersecurity incident that drew attention from U.S. federal agencies. The company has undergone leadership changes in recent years, with Itamar Roth serving as CEO. Sisense employs several hundred people globally.
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Financials
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Products by Sisense
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Competitive Landscape
Who Sisense competes with, and how they differ.
Broader drag-and-drop self-service BI aimed at business analysts; Sisense differentiates with headless, embeddable analytics APIs built for ISVs shipping analytics inside their own SaaS products.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Bundled into Microsoft 365/Azure at low incremental cost, driving mass internal-BI adoption; Sisense competes on deep white-label embedding and customization for product teams rather than internal dashboards.
9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Associative in-memory query engine with a strong data-integration/ETL heritage aimed at analysts; Sisense's differentiation is an API-first, embeddable architecture for SaaS vendors.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Cloud-native, all-in-one BI with a large pre-built connector library aimed at business users; Sisense targets developers embedding analytics into third-party applications.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Search- and AI-driven natural-language query as its core differentiator; Sisense competes on multi-tenant, white-labeled embedding for OEM customers instead.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Semantic-modeling layer (LookML) tightly coupled to Google Cloud/BigQuery; Sisense is cloud-agnostic and positions around embedded, white-labeled analytics for ISVs.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Sisense's history, with sources.
- Milestone
CISA discloses compromise of Sisense customer data
CISA alerted customers to a breach of Sisense's GitLab instance exposing access tokens, API keys and passwords, advising organizations to reset any credentials used with Sisense services.
cisa.gov - Milestone
Workforce roughly halved since 2022 across three rounds of layoffs
Sisense cut about 60 employees (13% of remaining staff), following 100 cut in July 2023 and a reduction from 800 to 600 employees in 2022, leaving headcount near 400.
calcalistech.com - Milestone
CEO transition: Ariel Katz succeeds Amir Orad
Longtime CEO Amir Orad moved to executive chairman as CPTO Ariel Katz was promoted to CEO; Kristina Agassi became COO.
techtarget.com - Funding
Series F — $100M+ at $1B+ valuation, reaches unicorn status
Insight Partners led a $100M+ round joined by Access Industries, Bessemer, Battery Ventures and DFJ Growth, valuing Sisense above $1 billion.
siliconangle.com - Acquisition
Acquired Periscope Data
Sisense merged with cloud analytics startup Periscope Data to combine BI with data-science tooling, creating a company with 700+ employees and 2,000+ customers.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series E — $80M led by Insight Partners
Insight Venture Partners led an $80M round with participation from Battery Ventures, Bessemer, DFJ Growth, Genesis Partners and Opus Capital.
venturebeat.com - Funding
Series D — $50M led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer led a $50M round to fund European expansion, with participation from DFJ Growth, Battery Ventures, Genesis Partners and Opus Capital.
businesswire.com - Funding
Series C — $30M led by DFJ Growth
DFJ Growth led a $30M round with Battery Ventures, Genesis Partners and Opus Capital participating, bringing total raised to roughly $44M.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Sisense founded
Sisense (originally SiSense) was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2004.
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