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Early adopters of Gable see incident resolution time improve by up to 70%, and development cycles for data-dependent features accelerate by 50%.
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The “Shift Left” approach transforms data teams from reactive cost centers to proactive value creators, allowing organizations to build higher-quality data assets from the start.
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Watch Gable’s inaugural Shift Left Data Virtual Conference, where 500+ attendees joined to hear leading data experts from Wayfair, Glassdoor, Helix and more discuss the future of data contracts and data collaboration.
Gable, creator of the first shift left data management platform enabling software and data developers to iteratively build and manage high-quality data assets, today announced it has raised $20M in Series A funding. The investment was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Zetta Venture Partners, Databricks Ventures, B Capital, Capital One Ventures, In-Q-Tel (IQT), and angel investors, including Barr Moses and Tristan Handy¹.
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The traditional disconnect between software developers and data teams creates costly inefficiencies—data producers lack visibility into consumption patterns, leading to missing data, contextual gaps, and broken pipelines. This cycle of mistrust and duplicate work leads to poor quality data and costs the US economy $3.1T annually.
Gable addresses these issues with its data management platform built around “data contracts,” an API-based agreement between software developers who own upstream data sources and data developers/analysts who consume it. These contracts work across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, creating a foundation of quality that better serves modern Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Through Gable’s platform, these contracts are defined, enforced, and discovered automatically, providing crucial context and constraints that enable developers to build data quality directly into their processes from the beginning rather than fixing issues downstream.
The company will use the new round of capital to accelerate product development and expand the team to meet the growing demand for data collaboration tools. Gable has been working closely with multiple customers, including Glassdoor, Grab and x15ventures, the venture scaling arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to refine its platform, which has already demonstrated significant improvements in data quality and team productivity.
“For years, businesses have struggled with blind spots between software developers and data teams—eroding trust and leading to unreliable decisions,” said Scott Sage, Co-founder and Partner at Crane Venture Partners. “Gable is redefining how enterprises govern and trust their data by shifting ownership left, empowering developers, and establishing a new industry standard for enterprise data management.”
“Shifting Left” for Data
Gable’s platform addresses a critical problem in modern data management by enabling what the company calls “Shifting Left” for data—instead of data management solely being the responsibility of the downstream data organizations, the treatment of data is a shared responsibility across producers, data platform teams, and consumers. This is a transformation similar to how DevOps and DevSecOps revolutionized software development and security practices.
“Just as DevOps shifted operational responsibility to developers and DevSecOps embedded security into the development process, we’re enabling a fundamental shift in how organizations handle data quality and governance through Data DevOps,” said Chad Sanderson, CEO and co-founder of Gable. “By moving data quality controls upstream to the point of data creation, we’re eliminating the costly cycle of fixing broken pipelines, resolving inconsistencies, and debugging downstream issues.”
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The Shift Left approach transforms data teams from reactive cost centers to proactive value creators, allowing organizations to build higher-quality data assets from the start. Early adopters of Gable are seeing faster resolution of data issues, with initial results suggesting incident resolution time can improve by up to 70%, while development cycles for data-dependent features accelerate by nearly 50%.
“Before Gable, we faced multiple critical data incidents every month, slowing down development and forcing our data engineers into constant troubleshooting mode. Developers had no visibility into how their changes impacted downstream consumers, creating bottlenecks and inconsistencies. With Gable’s data contracts, that’s completely changed. We’ve now gone three months without a single incident—something we hadn’t achieved in years. Our engineers have clear guardrails, data quality is built into development, and our teams spend more time on strategic analytics and AI instead of fixing broken pipelines,” said Kyle Dervishi, VP of Engineering at Glassdoor.
“Given our role in the ecosystem, Databricks is uniquely positioned to understand just how high the stakes are for data governance and quality management,” said Andrew Ferguson, VP of Databricks Ventures. “Gable’s platform bridges the critical gap between data teams and developers to ensure that data is accurate, reliable, and actionable across organizations. We’re investing in Gable because its goals align with our own: to empower organizations to harness the full power of their data. Gable has the potential to transform the way organizations collaborate around data, and we look forward to deepening our partnership with Gable in the Future.”
On March 27, 2025, Gable hosted its inaugural Shift Left Data Conference, gathering industry leaders online to discuss the future of data contracts and collaboration.
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