Microsoft acquires data engineering startup Osmos to strengthen Fabric

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Osmos, a data engineering startup focused on AI and automation. The company will join the Microsoft Fabric engineering team, where their solutions will be used to unify data and analytics, according to Microsoft CVP for Azure Data Analytics Bogdan Crivat. 

“Today’s announcement reinforces Microsoft’s focus to help every organization unlock more value from their data faster and with greater simplicity,” Crivat wrote.

Osmos has developed a suite of products designed to help customers automate and accelerate the ingestion more varied data. 

In a post-acquisition note, Osmos CEO Kirat Pandya noted that the VC-backed startup evolved their offerings based on customer demands like combining data sources, consolidation of data estates, and the use of LLMs to provide new data pipeline capabilities. He also noted that Osmos built their first wave of products within Fabric, “focused on autonomous ingestion, transformation, and schema evolution.”

“By bringing Osmos’s technology and team into Microsoft, we have the opportunity to accelerate what we’ve been building and deliver it to a far broader audience—directly where customers already operate their data platforms,” Pandya added.