Colin Zima
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Colin Zima (Omni): $120M Series C at $1.5B Valuation
Omni co-founder and CEO Colin Zima announces a $120M Series C at a $1.5B valuation led by ICONIQ, including a $30M secondary giving employees liquidity, which he argues now aids retention in a market where foundation labs pay top dollar. He traces Omni's founding after Looker's acquisition by Google, explains how the semantic layer plus recently 'good enough' AI models make business data answerable in plain language, and argues humans stay in the loop for taste and direction. He also digs into why most enterprise AI pilots fail, how companies should judge AI tool ROI, and why he leans toward open-source models becoming cheap and good enough.