Tristan Handy

Overview

Tristan Handy is an angel investor and the CEO of dbt Labs, a company specializing in data transformation tools. As an angel investor, he primarily focuses on early-stage investments in data and analytics startups, aiming to support innovative solutions in the data space. His investment portfolio includes companies such as Letta, Kestra Technologies, Patronous AI, Espresso AI, TextQL, Aleph, Modal Labs, Secoda, Evidence, and Pydantic Services. In addition to his investment activities, Handy has a strong background in data analytics and software development. Before founding dbt Labs, he served as the Vice President of Marketing at RJMetrics, a data analytics company, and as the Chief Operating Officer at Argyle Social, a social media analytics firm. He also held the position of Director of Operations at Squarespace, a website building and hosting company. These roles have equipped him with a deep understanding of the data industry and the challenges faced by data-driven organizations. Handy's leadership at dbt Labs has been instrumental in the company's growth and success. Under his guidance, dbt Labs has developed a suite of tools that empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge effectively. The company's flagship product, dbt (data build tool), has become a standard in the analytics engineering community, enabling teams to transform raw data into analytics-ready datasets using SQL. This focus on empowering data teams has positioned dbt Labs as a leader in the data transformation space, with a growing user base and a strong reputation among data professionals.