Hex

Hex is an AI-powered analytics platform combining data exploration, coding, visualization, and collaborative workflows to help organizations make better use of trusted data.

Total funding
$172
Stage
Series C
Employees
51–200

Company Overview

Hex is a data analytics software company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides an integrated platform for data exploration, analysis, visualization, and collaboration, enabling both technical and nontechnical users to work with organizational data.

The platform combines SQL, Python, notebook-based analysis, visual exploration, and AI-powered natural-language interfaces. Its AI capabilities help users investigate questions, generate analyses, and create data applications, while its semantic models and context-management tools aim to make analytical answers more consistent and trustworthy.

Hex serves organizations across industries, including technology and financial services. The company announced a $70 million Series C funding round in May 2025 and acquired business intelligence startup Hashboard in April 2025. Its product direction increasingly focuses on agentic analytics, enabling AI agents to help users explore data while allowing data teams to govern definitions, context, and answer quality. Hex reports supporting more than 2,000 customers globally.

QueryFeedz Insight

Hex operates in the AI analytics and business intelligence market, where organizations are seeking ways to make data accessible beyond specialist analysts. Its platform brings together code-based analysis, visual exploration, AI assistance, and shareable data applications in a collaborative environment. This integrated approach is designed to reduce the fragmentation between notebooks, dashboards, standalone AI tools, and reporting workflows.

Funding & Investors

Latest funding
$70
Latest round
Series C
Latest funding date
May 2025

Investors

  • Avra
  • Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
  • Amplify Partners
  • BoxGroup
  • Redpoint Ventures
  • Sequoia Capital
  • Snowflake Ventures
  • Next Legacy

Founders

  • Barry McCardel — Co-Founder and CEO. Caitlin Colgrove — Co-Founder and CTO. Glen Takahashi — Co-Founder