Looker Data Sciences, Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

[1] The company was founded in Santa Cruz, California in January, 2012 by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield and occupied the historic Rittenhouse building there.

The product grew out of Tabb's experience building software at companies like Netscape, LiveOps, and Luminate before founding Looker.

[2] The product was the first commercially available business intelligence platform built for and aimed at scalable or massively parallel relational database management systems like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, HP Vertica, Netezza, and Teradata.

[11] In July, 2015, Jen Grant joined as chief marketing officer, and the company estimated it has 140 employees.