Open source data athletics company Airbyte is launching additional connectors to make data better accessible to businesses in the age of AI without eroding data sovereignty.
The San Francisco-based startup announced Thursday that it is releasing a number of new features designed to allow customers to safely move corporate data without tapping on SaaS applications. New features include support for transferring unstructured data from applications such as Google Drive and SharePoint, and compatibility with Apache Iceberg, an open source format for large analytics tables.
Airbyte also launches connector bundles for enterprise customers, including data connector pipelines for applications such as NetSuite, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday.
Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of AirByte, said the beauty of these new features is to provide enterprises with additional ways to extract and utilize internal data, including AI applications. He continued, providing alternatives to AI services could put customers at risk of revealing their data to third parties.
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“I like the Fortune 500 because it allows for the flexibility and efficiency of tools, infrastructure, and you have complete control over where your data is moving from which system,” Tricot said. “They are the only ones who actually see the pipes. No one else can see the pipes next to them.[s] they. “
Tricot added that Airbyte customers can fully visualize these data pipelines, allowing them to remove sensitive knowledge such as employee compensation information from the data before reaching their final destination.
“One thing I want to say is don't provide your first party data for intelligence,” Tricot said. “It's a bad deal. I think a lot of executives and businesses know that. Ah, I don't want this. [AI model] To allow access to my data when I'm chatting [model]and that makes sense. Because now people are just putting the data that is most sensitive to this system. So we want to make sure it's protected inside […] Their infrastructure. ”
Tricot believes Iceberg's support is one of the highlights of the company's new feature set. Iceberg said it has provided businesses with the ability to move data into data lakehouses and created a single “source of truth” that works in numerous applications.
“[Iceberg is] It's compatible with Databricks, compatible with Bitquery, compatible with Snowflake, and compatible with new AI apps,” Tricot said.
Airbyte was founded in 2020 by the COOs of Tricot and Jean Lafleur. Airbyte has over 7,000 enterprise customers, including Monday.com, Investco, Calendly, and approximately 250,000 installations. The startup raises more than $181 million in venture capital from companies such as Coatue, Accel and Benchmark, among many others.