Fivetran acquires Census to become end-to-end data movement platform

After about 13 years of business, Fivetran Now his customers will be able to offer the last to the last data movement solution.

FiveTRAN, which initiatives help transfer data to cloud database from different sources, announced Thursday that it achieved CensusA reverse drainage, transform and load (ETL) platform that enables companies to transfer data out of the database and operational equipment. The census was founded in 2018 and collected more than 80 million initiatives from companies, including Sikoia, Andreasen Horovits and Tiger Global.

The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the census was The last price is 3022 in 30 630 millionThe Once the acquisition is closed, the entire census team will move to FiveTran and the census brand will eventually be integrated on the FiveTran platform.

FiveTran’s co-founder and CEO George Fraser told TechCrunch that the agreement was understandable for the FiveTran for many reasons. For one, customers have been asking FiveTran to resolve the opposite ETL for years.

The company thought about the development of its own offer, to go so far to create a prototype. However, Fraser said that the FiveTran realized that it would be better to bring a company that already discovered it instead of it.

“Technically speaking, if you see the code below [these] Services, they are actually quite different, “Fraser said.” To do this you need to solve a very different problem. “

Once FiveTran has decided that adding Reverse ETL has become more intelligent through acquisition, the census was a natural choice, because Fraser said, because the two companies shared the same customers many and two platforms are very similar to stylist.

Fraser said, “People who like Fiventrons, compared to information or compared to their own connectors, are going to be people who like the census,” said Fraser. “Two products are widely prefer the same philosopher and so they tend to apply to the same customers, which you are thinking about combinations” “

The founding teams of the census and the FiveTran may not even return that may not have done any harm. Fraser said he had met with the census team, including CEO Boris Jabs and Anton Vianshotok, during the winter batch of the Wi -Combinator.

Fraser and his co-founder, Taylor Brown was passing through the Wisi program and was creating Jabs and Vianshotok Meldium, a password and account management arrangement, It was acquired by Lugagine in 2014The They all remain in contact and even talked about the census as an idea a few years before the company was established.

Now, a decade later, everything is coming under one roof.

“We have talked about their ideas about their ideas with the founders of the census, even they are agencies and taylor [Brown] And I joking at this time that it could end in an acquisition, because there are plenty of combinations between the two things, “Fraser said.” In some ways, it has been implemented, I think. “