Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2017CEO / Founder
Abe GongEmployees
51-200Funding
Acquired — $64.5MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
www.superconductive.comProfile updated
Superconductive is the company behind Great Expectations (GX), an open-source data quality and testing framework created in 2017 by Abe Gong and James Campbell. The framework has over 3 million monthly downloads and is widely adopted across data engineering teams.
The commercial product, Great Expectations Cloud, provides collaboration, orchestration, and governance capabilities on top of the open-source framework for enterprise data teams.
Superconductive has raised approximately $64.5 million across Series A and B rounds, with Tiger Global leading the Series B and Index Ventures, CRV, and Root Ventures as earlier investors.
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Who Superconductive competes with, and how they differ.
Monte Carlo is a data observability platform that automatically monitors pipelines for anomalies, freshness, and volume issues, versus GX's approach of explicit, engineer-authored data quality tests (Expectations) run in-pipeline.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedSoda (Soda Core/Cloud) is a directly comparable open-source-first data quality framework using declarative SodaCL checks instead of GX's Python-based Expectations API, and, like GX, pairs a free OSS core with a paid cloud layer.
Collibra is an enterprise data governance and catalog platform whose Data Quality & Observability module is one piece of a much broader catalog, lineage, and privacy suite, versus GX's narrower focus on pipeline-level validation.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedInformatica Data Quality is part of a legacy, GUI-driven enterprise data management suite sold to large enterprises through long sales cycles, contrasting with GX's developer-first, code-native, open-source-rooted approach.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedAtlan is primarily an active metadata and data catalog product for discovery and collaboration, with data quality as an adjacent feature rather than its core focus, unlike GX's quality-first design.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Superconductive's history, with sources.
FICO acquires GX Cloud; Fivetran becomes open-source steward
FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) acquired GX Cloud to fold into its own data-quality platform, with GX Cloud being discontinued June 1, 2026; Fivetran became the new steward of the open-source GX Core project.
greatexpectations.ioGX adds Amazon Redshift support
Great Expectations added native Amazon Redshift support to GX, letting teams validate data directly in their Redshift warehouse without moving it.
greatexpectations.ioHernan Alvarez named CEO
Hernan Alvarez, GX's VP of Product since 2022 and the architect of GX Cloud, became CEO of Great Expectations, with prior leadership moving to a strategic-advisor role.
greatexpectations.ioGX Core 1.0 released
Great Expectations released GX Core 1.0, renaming GX OSS to GX Core and shipping a simplified, fully-typed API with 47 ready-to-use data quality Expectations.
greatexpectations.ioGX Cloud beta launched
Great Expectations launched the beta of GX Cloud, its first fully-hosted commercial data-quality product built on the open-source framework.
greatexpectations.ioCompany renamed Superconductive to Great Expectations (GX)
Superconductive renamed the company to Great Expectations (GX), unifying the corporate name with its widely known open-source product name ahead of a planned 2023 commercial cloud launch.
greatexpectations.ioSeries B — $40M led by Tiger Global
Superconductive raised a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global, with Index Ventures, CRV, and Root Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $64.5M and financing the launch of a commercial Great Expectations Cloud product.
prnewswire.comSeries A — $21M led by Index Ventures
Superconductive raised a $21M Series A led by Index Ventures, with Root Ventures and CRV participating, to grow the open-source Great Expectations community and build a commercial roadmap.
alexanderjarvis.comSeed round — $4.1M led by Root Ventures
Superconductive raised a $4.1M seed round led by Root Ventures to build a commercial data-quality company around the open-source Great Expectations framework.
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