Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Advance Autonomous Data Engineering in Fabric Platform

Redmond | EcoPulse24

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Osmos, a company specializing in agentic AI-powered data engineering platforms. This step is designed to accelerate the automation of data workflows within Microsoft Fabric and transform raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets.

The company explained that Osmos addresses a major enterprise challenge: the complexity and slowness of data preparation. Teams often spend significant time prepping data rather than analyzing it. Osmos automates these processes using AI agents capable of preparing, linking, and transforming data within OneLake, the unified data lake central to the Fabric platform.

Microsoft emphasized that the deal aligns with its vision to unify data and analytics in a single, secure platform, moving towards a model where AI agents work alongside humans to reduce operational burdens and streamline enterprise data sharing and analysis.

Osmos was founded in 2019 by Kirat Pandya (CEO, with previous experience at Microsoft and Google) and Naresh Venkata (with experience at Google, Trend Micro, and Dell). The company is based in Seattle and employs fewer than 20 people. In 2021, Osmos raised $13 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from CRV, Pear, and SV Angel.

Osmos focuses on an agentic AI-based data engineering platform for automating complex processes, converting raw data into analysis-ready assets. Initially, the company concentrated on external data ingestion from customers, suppliers, and partners, before shifting to integrating large language models directly into data engineering workflows. Osmos also developed native tools for Microsoft Fabric, including AI Data Wrangler for cleaning Excel and PDF files without code.

Under the deal, the Osmos team will join the Microsoft Fabric Engineering group. Standalone Osmos products - such as Uploaders, Pipelines, Datasets, and data agents for Databricks and Fabric - will be discontinued starting January 2026, with efforts focused on Fabric's core infrastructure.

EcoPulse24 Analysis
The acquisition marks Microsoft’s shift from data aggregation to advanced, fully automated data lifecycle management. Integrating agentic AI into Fabric enhances the platform’s competitiveness in enterprise data analytics, signaling a strategic bet on reducing time and operational costs to extract value from data. This positions Microsoft as a frontrunner in the enterprise AI platform race.