Scoop “Excelerates” business decisions with spreadsheet-powered data analytics

Scoop “Excelerates” business decisions with spreadsheet-powered data analytics

Sluggish data collection. Disjointed workflows. Security and compliance challenges. Data-based decision making, despite its uptick in adoption, is easier said than done.

That is, before Scoop Analytics came along. The spreadsheet-powered data solution, led by founder and CEO Brad Peters , removes the technical barriers that plague users across revenue, marketing, and finance operations. With Scoop, these folks can easily interpret data and determine the best step forward.

In celebration of Scoop’s seed round (led by Ridge Ventures !), here is the full scoop on this next-level solution and the incredible team behind the controls.

Self-disservice data analytics

Many companies are spending months (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) to enable "self-service" data analytics capabilities—only to fall short. Among other issues, these tools are too complex for non-technical users which in turn puts more strain on IT teams.

The problems don’t stop there. Other self-service setbacks include:

  • Poor Data Quality: When users from different departments access and analyze data, inconsistencies and inaccuracies often arise. This taints the reliability of data used in self-service tools.
  • Governance & Security Challenges: Self-service analytics is decentralized, so maintaining control over who has access to what data, how it's used, and ensuring compliance with privacy and industry regulations is challenging.
  • Data Misinterpretation: Not all users have the skills or experience necessary to accurately interpret the results of their analyses. Misinterpreted data and insights lead to false conclusions and poor business decisions.

How does a BI (Business Intelligence) platform counteract these problems and truly earn the self-service designation? Can it scale as an organization and its data volume grows? Can it integrate seamlessly with existing business software?

Scoop puts all of these concerns to rest, and you don’t need to be a data whiz to use it.

Data-driven decisions for all

With Scoop, users across revenue/finance operations, marketing and more can realize their data-driven dreams. Any Scoop user who knows their way around a spreadsheet can automatically access, combine, and glean insights from data. No need to bug IT and data teams. No six-figure (minimum) commitment that torpedoes bottom lines.

With Scoop's centralized spreadsheet datasets, users can easily explore and visualize data, ask new follow-up questions, and tell compelling data stories.

Scoop’s ease of use is unprecedented among self-service BI solutions. Its data visualization is seamless, giving non-technical users access to pre-built metrics templates plus further analytics via the Scoop application and Excel formulas. No SQL required. Better yet, Scoop’s AI always keeps data refreshed as it changes, sparing users from the agony of throwaway work.

Once data is “scooped” from an application such as HubSpot, Salesforce, or Jira—Scoop integrates with 30+ business apps—a lovely full-featured spreadsheet can combine data from multiple source reports. From here, users can perform custom calculations and create unified, up-to-the-second datasets in service of data analytics’ ultimate goal: telling a persuasive story.

Simply put, Scoop provides data-driven decision-making for all business users, not just engineers and data brainiacs. It’s an incredibly innovative and timely solution, and the product of a stalwart, visionary team.

A Scooper duper team

A phenomenal product in a rapidly evolving space might string together a couple of base hits, so to speak, but knocking it out of the park requires a founding team with experience, grit, and loads of domain expertise.

At the top, co-founder and CEO Brad Peters delivers all three of these attributes in spades. An experienced founder with a prior exit and a deep product and market knowledge of the data space, Brad founded, and served as CEO of, standout analytics firm Birst before leading product under a new CEO following its acquisition. Prior to Birst, Brad created a BI product offering at Siebel Systems that was later acquired by Oracle.

From left to right: Senior Marketing Manager Alexandria Ryman; co-founders Brad Peters, Janet Gehrmann, and Gabriel Jakobson; Senior Product Manager Byron Scott.

Completing Scoop’s dynamite triumvirate of co-founders are Gabriel Jakobson and Janet Gehrmann . Like Brad, Gabriel is a repeat founder. He’s built and developed enterprise solutions for multiple Fortune 100 businesses and has 14 technology patents to his name. Janet boasts more than a decade of experience in the software world, from sales to product strategy to business ops. As fate would have it, Janet crossed paths with both Brad and Gabriel while leading SMB go-to-market at Birst, after spearheading product diligence for private equity firms at EY-Parthenon and driving digital product strategies at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Only the beginning

The rise in data-driven decision making, and the increased adoption of intuitive self-service BI platforms, sets the table for Scoop to run the table.

I’m humbled to partner with Scoop’s amazing team, and my friends at Engineering Capital and Industry Ventures , to help companies extract meaningful insights from their data with little effort (and zero IT hassle).

Congrats to Scoop on the new funding, one of many milestones to come!

Janet Loyola

Full Time Bay Area Realtor® | Ex-Analytics @Workday

5mo

This is great news Yousuf, congratulations!

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Al Ghous

CISO | Advisor | Investor

5mo

Congrats Yousuf Khan. Great concept and Founders to execute on the vision

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Catherine Calarco

Board Director | Transformational CMO | Driver of Profitable Growth | Expert in AI and Healthcare | SaaS | Radio Show Host | Speaker

5mo

Great news! Congratulations Yousuf!

Suyash Awasthi

Builder of Next Gen Technology Businesses | CEO | President | Executive Leader

5mo

Congratulations Yousuf Khan.

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