Querio raises $5M seed to put metrics back in the data team’s hands
London's Querio launched with $5 million and BMW i Ventures as lead investor. Its metric definitions live in the customer's own Git repo, so humans and AI agents read the same numbers.
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Founded 2024 · London, United Kingdom
Querio, a London analytics startup founded in 2024, launched on October 27, 2026 with $5 million behind it and BMW i Ventures named as the lead of its seed, to build an analytics layer that keeps a company’s metric definitions in its own Git repository, under the control of the data team.
A $5 million launch out of London
Querio announced the money on October 27, 2026, the same day it opened the product commercially. The company’s own release puts the figure at $5 million of total funding at launch; The Startup Magazine reported the new round at £3.8 million on the same date. InfoTechLead and Startup Rise both name BMW i Ventures as the lead of the seed, while Querio’s release lists the backers without naming one, so the lead rests on those two reports.
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LAUNCH, the fund run by Jason Calacanis, came in alongside Haatch Ventures, Araya, Forum Ventures and Secways. The Startup Magazine adds angels from OpenAI, Google, Robinhood and Slack. InfoTechLead reports the money goes to engineering, product development and customer acquisition. No valuation was disclosed, and the round carries no further tranche that the company has made public.
Metric definitions that live in GitHub
Rami Abi Habib (CEO) and Javier Bonilla (CTO) started Querio in 2024; our Querio startup record puts the team at eight people in London. The product sits on top of a company’s existing warehouse and moves the part everyone argues about, the definitions, into the data team’s own GitHub repository. Reports, metrics and the logic behind them are version-controlled, and a change needs the data team’s approval before it lands.
The payoff Querio is selling is consistency once the questions stop coming from people. The same governed numbers answer in Slack, in Claude and in ChatGPT, so an agent asking for last quarter’s revenue gets what the finance team signed off on. “Analytics tools have kept a company’s logic inside the vendor’s product,” Abi Habib said in the launch announcement. The company also shipped unshackle, an open-source tool for moving metrics, dashboards and permissions off Tableau, Looker or Power BI. OpenVPN and agree.com were named as customers at launch.
An $11.7 billion market growing at 9.7% a year
Grand View Research sizes the European business intelligence software market at $11.7 billion in 2026, growing at a 9.7% compound annual rate to $22.3 billion by 2033 (report published October 2024, page last updated August 2026). That is a market with incumbents worth tens of billions and a replacement cycle measured in years, which is the honest reading of what a seed-stage team in London is walking into.
For scale, two other European seeds landed on the same day in our fundraising data: Lette raised €5.85 million led by Peak Capital for rental AI agents, and Agora Labs raised €4.3 million led by P101 SGR for hospital data. Querio sits in the same band. The good news is that this band now buys a commercial launch with paying customers on day one. Three years ago, a European data tooling seed bought eighteen months of quiet building.
Why a carmaker’s fund backed analytics plumbing
So what does BMW i Ventures see here that a generalist software fund might miss? Industrial companies run on numbers that have to mean the same thing in a plant in Bavaria and in a board pack in Munich, and they are the buyers most exposed when an AI assistant starts answering those questions on its own. A corporate fund writing the first check into a semantic layer is a signal about where the pain is felt first, and it is worth watching whether more of Europe’s industrial venture arms follow into the data stack over the next few quarters.
We keep hearing that agents will replace the dashboard. What we are seeing in the European data and analytics desk is something narrower and more useful: the governance layer underneath the dashboard is being rebuilt first, in Git, by small teams in London, Stockholm and Berlin. Imagine if the next five years of European analytics companies competed on whose definitions you can audit.
The goal was never to own the dashboard. It is to own the meaning of the number underneath it, and that is a fight European founders can still win. Watch who writes the next check into this layer!
