Looker

founders: ben porterfield, lloyd tabb Equity raised: $178 million Estimated 2017 revenue: $70 million

Lead investors: capitalg, first round capital, kleiner perkins caufield & byers, meritech capital partners, redpoint ventures

What it does: makes business-intelligence software that consolidates data from multiple applications. looker’s software promises to take all of a company’s data and make it centrally accessible so it can be analyzed for trends and opportunities. the company has more than 1,000 corporate customers.