Golden Analytics: Former Tableau CPO Raises $7M from NEA and Madrona for AI-Native BI Platform

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Golden Analytics emerged from stealth April 7 with $7M in seed funding from NEA and Madrona, founded by Francois Ajenstat — former CPO of Tableau who guided it through IPO and $15.7B Salesforce acquisition. The platform generates finished dashboards from raw datasets in two clicks with a 'Slider of Autonomy' letting users control AI involvement. Angel investors include Tableau co-founder Chris Stolte, Stanford AI Lab director Carlos Guestrin, and Streamlit founder Adrien Treuille. The Tableau brain trust is effectively rebuilding BI from scratch with AI at the core.