Founded by veterans of Google, Chronicle, EvolutionIQ, and Accenture, QueryStory has shown strong results with Fortune 500 companies in highly regulated industries such as financial services and consulting.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QueryStory today emerged from stealth, launching a new agentic data platform designed to close the gap between company data and decisions. The company's founders, veterans of Google, Chronicle, EvolutionIQ, and Accenture, have spent more than two decades building large-scale data systems. QueryStory is backed by Brightmind Partners, with participation from New York Life Ventures.
QueryStory was founded on a simple yet important belief: the people closest to a decision should be able to reach the data behind it.
The real understanding of a business—why something happened and what to do next—rarely lives in one place. It’s spread across dashboards, teams, documents, and conversations, which makes it hard to align people, learn from past decisions, and move quickly with confidence. Data alone doesn't close that gap, and strong analysis falls short when the reasoning behind it lives somewhere else. AI has made answers faster to produce without making them easier to validate, and companies are accumulating risk that can’t be traced to a source.
“I lived this at Google's Threat Analysis Group. Organizations already had the data to see threats coming; they just couldn't make sense of it in time,” said Shapor Naghibzadeh, co-founder and chief executive officer of QueryStory. “So we built Chronicle, Google's security data platform, and collapsed a messy multi-vendor stack into one unified system for security data. QueryStory does that for everything else."
QueryStory covers the full path from data to decision. Traditional analytics platforms stop at a chart, leaving each team to interpret it alone. QueryStory goes further and supports the entire decision lifecycle, including proactive guidance to the functional teams. It connects an organization's data with the context that gives it meaning, so both technical and functional leaders work from the same governed foundation and then act on that information together. Every answer is scored, traceable, and continuously re-checked, so teams know the moment the information stops being right.
QueryStory is currently deployed within the insurance, consulting, tech, and retail sectors and partners with Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and NVIDIA.
“We invest in teams addressing the friction that compounds at enterprise scale, and few problems compound like the distance between a company’s data and its decisions,” said Tim Del Bello, Managing Director at New York Life Ventures. “We knew the QueryStory team was uniquely equipped to close this gap, and it’s why we’re putting their technology to work on our own data. As enterprises put more AI into production, the constraint shifts from producing answers to trusting them, and that is the solution QueryStory has built.”
“When we met Shapor, his thesis was clear. The analytics stack had not evolved to meet the needs of the AI-native enterprise,” said Gur Talpaz, Co-founder and Venture Partner at Brightmind Partners. “Applying the lens from his time building Chronicle into an industry leader in security operations, Shapor and team developed QueryStory to bridge the gap between analytics and action. The platform enables enterprises to translate their AI investments to business decisions across their operational footprint.”
QueryStory's founding team brings together three strengths that rarely sit on the same team: deep data infrastructure (Google, Chronicle), enterprise analytics leadership at scale (Accenture), and applied AI product execution through a full startup lifecycle (EvolutionIQ).
CEO Shapor Naghibzadeh spent 18 years at Google, where he co-created the Threat Analysis Group that became the industry standard for tracking cyberattacks. He then co-founded Chronicle—Google's security data platform, which he grew from two people to an Alphabet company—before leading the AI work that became Gemini for Security Operations. CTO Stanley Yang was an early engineer on Naghibzadeh's core Chronicle team and later a lead engineer at EvolutionIQ, helping drive it to a $730M acquisition, one of the first major AI SaaS exits. CPO Dave Glusic led agentic analytics strategy across Accenture's 150,000-plus global workforce, where he oversaw how one of the world's largest professional services firms made decisions with data and where legacy analytics tools consistently fell short.
The team will be at the Gartner IT Symposium 2026 in Orlando, FL, October 19-22. For more information, read our founding manifesto and visit us at querystory.ai to schedule a product demonstration. QueryStory is a Google Cloud Partner and is available through the Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing enterprise customers to purchase the platform alongside existing cloud environments.
About QueryStory
Every company runs on data. Almost none of them run on understanding. We built QueryStory to close that gap. QueryStory is an agentic data platform that brings data sources together in a system that helps businesses turn that information into shared understanding. Anyone can ask a question in plain language, get an answer they can defend, and turn it into a story the whole business acts on.
Contacts
Megan Marks, Chief Marketing Officer, QueryStory
megan@querystory.ai | (260) 413-1830
Jennifer Sukawaty, altb partners on behalf of QueryStory
jennifer@altbpartners.com | (202) 422-5383
