Cube Dev
500 GlobalFounded 2019 · 53 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
Cube provides a semantic layer that lets data teams define metrics, dimensions, joins, and access rules once and serve them to dashboards, embedded analytics, and AI agents through SQL, REST, GraphQL, MCP, DAX, and MDX APIs. It offers code-first and visual data modeling tools so data engineers and analysts collaborate on a single set of governed metric definitions.
Also known as Cube · Cube Cloud
Founders & leadership
Cube Dev was founded in 2019 by Artyom Keydunov, Mike Melanin, and Pavel Tiunov.
Investors · 9
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cube Dev develops Cube, an analytics platform organized around a semantic layer that defines business metrics once and serves them consistently to multiple downstream surfaces. The platform pairs that governed model with a set of analytics surfaces: Analytics Chat for natural-language questions, Workbooks that combine SQL with a visual editor and an assisting agent for drafting and iterating on queries, and Dashboards built conversationally with a dashboard agent. Governance and permissions defined in the model propagate through to each surface.
The product covers two principal use cases. For business intelligence, data teams use Cube as the consistent definition layer behind chat, workbooks and dashboards, with sub-second query performance attributed to pre-aggregations and caching. For embedded analytics, software vendors ship AI-powered analytics inside their own products through several integration paths: an Analytics Chat API that is agent-to-agent capable via MCP, drop-in Analytics Chat and dashboard iframes, a Creator Mode letting end customers build their own workbooks and dashboards, and core data APIs for building a custom UI. Embedded surfaces support customer branding and are described as multi-tenant by construction.
Cube also connects to tools where teams already work, exposing an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and custom agents, plus a Slack agent that answers questions in-thread. The company maintains an open-source presence and community channels alongside the commercial Cube Cloud offering.
Business model
Cube offers a commercial analytics platform, including the hosted Cube Cloud product, alongside an open-source project with a public GitHub repository and community Slack.
Traction
Cited community scale includes approximately 18,000 GitHub stars and 12,830 Slack members. Published customer references include Brex, Alcon, Drata and Webflow.
Latest developments
Recent product work published in 2026 includes the Claude Connector and Skills (August 2026), agentic analytics loops, Python analysis in Cube, a refreshed interface, chart updates, and bin-and-group functionality.
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Market position
Positions the semantic layer as the grounding for AI analytics so that answers are consistent across chat, workbooks, dashboards and embedded surfaces; a customer reference cites selection of Cube over dbt Semantic Layer and LookML.
Technology
A semantic layer holds metric and business-context definitions that all query surfaces resolve against. Pre-aggregation and caching provide sub-second dashboard performance. Agents (Analytics Chat, Workbook Agent, Dashboard Agent) generate queries against the semantic model rather than raw databases, and an MCP server exposes the model to external agents such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Core data APIs and 50+ tool integrations allow custom front ends; deployments connect to data warehouses and engines including ClickHouse.
Go-to-market
Self-serve sign-up and demo requests from the website, supported by published customer stories, documentation, an open-source repository and a public Slack community.
Data and analytics teams building governed metrics, and software companies embedding multi-tenant analytics into their own applications. Named users include Brex, Alcon, Drata and Webflow.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsCube announced its Claude Connector and Skills in a post on its site.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- Cube Devcube.dev · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cube Dev do?
- Cube is an agentic analytics platform built on a semantic layer for governed BI, embedded analytics and AI querying.
- Who founded Cube Dev?
- Cube Dev was founded by Artyom Keydunov, Mike Melanin, Pavel Tiunov in 2019.
- Who are Cube Dev's investors?
- Cube Dev's investors include 500 Global, Decibel Partners, Eniac Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Betaworks, Databricks Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Slack Fund and 1 more.