Omni was founded in 2022 by former Looker leaders Colin Zima, Jamie Davidson, and Chris Merrick to fix the long-standing trade-off in BI between governed, centralized modeling and the speed of ad-hoc analysis. Its core innovation is a managed, version-controlled semantic layer that acts as a bridge between raw warehouse data and any consumption surface, whether that is an interactive dashboard, a spreadsheet-style workbook, raw SQL, or an AI agent. Because metric definitions, joins, and access policies live in one rulebook, AI assistants and human analysts produce the same trusted answers. Omni connects directly to cloud warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift, and lets less technical users explore data while engineers maintain governance in code. The company has grown rapidly, raising a $69M Series B in early 2025 and a $120M Series C later in 2025 at a $1.5B valuation led by ICONIQ, positioning it as a leading independent challenger to legacy BI incumbents.