Gable was founded in 2023 by former data leaders from Convoy to fix a structural flaw in how data quality is managed. In most organizations, data problems are discovered far downstream, after a software engineer unknowingly changes a field, breaks a pipeline, and an analyst notices a wrong number days later. Gable champions a 'shift-left' philosophy: catch data issues at the source, in the application code, before bad data ever enters the warehouse.
The core mechanism is the data contract, an API-style agreement between upstream producers (software developers who own data sources) and downstream consumers (data engineers, analysts, and ML teams). Gable uses static code analysis to understand how data is generated and how it flows through applications and backend systems, without requiring runtime agents or production overhead. This lets it detect when a code change would violate a contract or break a downstream dependency, surfacing the problem in the developer's CI/CD pipeline.
Because Gable analyzes code directly, it produces field-level data lineage that spans from the originating source code all the way to storage destinations, covering structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. For regulated and security-conscious enterprises, this delivers audit-ready documentation of how sensitive data moves, which inputs feed AI and ML models, and where governance controls apply, all without instrumenting production systems.
Gable raised a $20 million Series A in March 2025 led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Zetta Venture Partners, Databricks Ventures, B Capital, Capital One Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and angels including Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses and dbt founder Tristan Handy, bringing total funding to roughly $27 million. The company counts customers such as Grab and Mews, maintains SOC 2 certification, and competes in data governance and observability by uniquely operating at the code level rather than the warehouse level.