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Data Synchronization Service: Grouparoo acquired by Airbyte


Today, the well-funded open source data integration platform, Airbyte, announced that it has acquired an open source startup, Grouparoo, which focuses on helping businesses sync data between their data warehouses and cloud-based tools. This complements Airbyte’s offering in many ways, which focuses on loading data into data warehouses, while Grouparoo then specializes in operationalizing that data.

Airbyte co-founder and CEO Michel Tricot said that its an open source reverse ETL [extract, transform, load] company. They exactly focuses on the other direction [from Airbyte]. They have a very strong technical team and a part of the product has already been built and it’s going to be about how we can leverage everything that has been done by them and get them into the team in order to expand the Airbyte product for reverse ETL.

Tricot stressed that as the team’s expertise Aribyte here isn’t so much buying the product. He said that they are not integrating their technology. It’s more about the knowledge and the experience that they have.

Tricot also noted that the making its service accessible to a non-technical audience, something Airbyte, too, has long focused on 

 has always been focused on by Grouparoo. He specifically called out that for creating the connectors it needs to connect to more third-party services, he hopes the team can help Airbyte build out UI tools.

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Grouparoo CEO and co-founder Brian Leonard, in his announcement today chose a slightly more sober tone.

He wrote, thank you to their users and investors for their continued support. “Grouparoo certainly had a set of early believers and users that saw what they were trying to accomplish. Grouparoo was deployed by them in their infrastructure or on our cloud, and to extend the platform some even built their own plugins. When they really took a hard look at it, though, they were not on the right path to have the impact that they wanted to have in the world.

Leonard wrote, that Airbyte has thrived, by aligning with the engineers that are responsible for this core task. Grouparoo saw less demand, by being further down the value chain with a more varied set of stakeholders. 

The price of the acquisition hasn’t been disclosed by the two companies. In a seed round led by Eniac Venture and Fuel Capital in late 2020, Grouparoo previously raised about $3 million.

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