Collibra
New York, US · Founded 2008 · 9 known investors
Collibra describes its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and how these principles guide its business decisions. The page is a corporate ESG statement rather than a description of the company's products.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Founders & leadership
Collibra was founded in 2008 by Felix Van de Maele.
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Felix Van de MaeleinFounder, CEO
Investors · 9
Alkeon InnovationNew York
Battery VenturesBoston · $500K – $100M
CapitalGSan Francisco · $50M – $100M
Crane Venture PartnersLondon · $750K – $3M
Dawn CapitalLondon · $317.5K – $6.3Mvia Norman Fiore · led
ICONIQSan Francisco
Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M
NewionAmsterdam · $1.1M – $11M
SofinareportedBrussels · $100M – $300M
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Collibra went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 10
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Lakefs295 shared keywordslakeFS provides a data version control and control-plane layer that sits between object storage and the tools, users, and AI agents that work on petabyte-scale multimodal data, offering Git-like branches, commits, and rollbacks without copying data. It targets enterprise ML platform, data engineering, and agentic AI teams that need reproducible, governed, and auditable access to images, video, audio, logs, JSON, and table formats.
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Acquisitions · 1
Early investors' stakes continue via these dealsRaito
Acquired by Collibra (exited).
In the news
Frequently asked questions
- What does Collibra do?
- Collibra describes its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and how these principles guide its business decisions. The page is a corporate ESG statement rather than a description of the company's products.
- Who founded Collibra?
- Collibra was founded by Felix Van de Maele in 2008.
- Who are Collibra's investors?
- Collibra's investors include Alkeon Innovation, Battery Ventures, CapitalG, Crane Venture Partners, Dawn Capital, ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Newion and 1 more.
- Where is Collibra headquartered?
- Collibra is headquartered in New York, US.






