Microsoft acquires data
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Microsoft announced Monday that it acquired Osmos, a Seattle startup that helps companies automate data engineering work. Microsoft acquires data Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Osmos’ team will join the engineering organization behind Microsoft Fabric, the tech giant’s data and analytics platform, to “accelerate autonomous data engineering,” according to a Microsoft blog post.
Founded in 2019, Osmos initially focused on external data ingestion — helping companies bring in data from customers, suppliers, and partners. Over time, the startup began experimenting with large language models embedded directly in data engineering workflows, and later built products within Microsoft Fabric, using the platform’s extensibility platform.
Now, instead of selling tools alongside data platforms, Osmos’ technology will live inside one.
“By bringing Osmos’ technology and team into Microsoft, we have the opportunity to accelerate what we’ve been building and deliver it to a far broader audience — directly where customers already operate their data platforms,” Osmos CEO Kirat Pandya wrote in a blog post.
Microsoft Fabric, launched in 2023, unifies data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence in a single environment. Osmos’ technology will help turn raw data into “analytics- and AI-ready assets,” according to Bogdan Crivat, who leads Microsoft’s Azure Data Analytics team.
“Many teams spend most of their time preparing data instead of analyzing it,” Crivat wrote in a blog post.
As part of the deal, Osmos is winding down its standalone offerings. The company says its current product suite — including Uploaders, Pipelines, and Datasets, as well as its data agents for Databricks and Fabric — will begin sunsetting in January 2026 as the tech is integrated into Fabric.
Osmos raised $13 million in a round led by Lightspeed in 2021 that also included CRV, Pear, and SV Angel.
Pandya previously worked at Google and Microsoft. Osmos co-founder Naresh Venkat also worked at Google, as well as Trend Micro and Dell. Osmos has less than 20 employees, according to LinkedIn.