Our Story

Getretrograd was founded in 2023 by Jake Browne after a decade leading data engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies. He experienced firsthand how even the most sophisticated organizations struggle to convert mountains of raw data into decisions that drive growth. Business intelligence tools were either too rigid for modern cloud data stacks or too complex for the analysts who needed them most.

The answer was Getretrograd — a platform engineered from the ground up to sit between the raw data warehouse and the executive dashboard, doing the heavy lifting of transformation, modeling, and visualization so that analysts can focus on interpretation rather than plumbing. From the start, we built AI into the core of the product, not as a surface feature, but as the engine that makes sense of noisy, unstructured enterprise data.

Today, Getretrograd serves over 500 customers across financial services, retail, manufacturing, and technology — helping them reduce time-to-insight from weeks to minutes while cutting the cost of maintaining legacy BI infrastructure by over 60 percent.

Getretrograd founding story — data analytics innovation

Mission & Values

Our mission is simple: give every enterprise team the analytical power that only the best-resourced data science departments have historically enjoyed. We achieve this by abstracting complexity without sacrificing capability — so a three-person analytics team at a mid-market manufacturer has the same insight velocity as a hundred-person data function at a global bank.

Transparency: We believe in clear, auditable models where users understand how insights are generated. No black boxes, no unexplained recommendations.

Performance at scale: Every product decision we make is tested against the demands of customers with billions of rows and thousands of concurrent users.

Customer partnership: Our most important features come from listening to analysts, data engineers, and executives who use the product every day.

Backed by Leading Investors

In March 2025, Getretrograd closed a $4.5 million Seed Round led by CircleRock Capital. This funding accelerates our product roadmap, expands our enterprise go-to-market motion, and deepens our AI modeling capabilities.

CircleRock Capital

Lead Investor — $4,500,000 Seed Round — 2025

CircleRock Capital is a growth-stage venture firm specializing in enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, and applied AI. Their portfolio companies have collectively reached over $8 billion in combined enterprise value.

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