Collibra
New York, US · Founded 2008 · 1,112 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors
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Also known as Collibra NV
Founders & leadership
Collibra was founded in 2008 by Felix Van de Maele.
Investors · 13
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$250M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2021–2026
- $250MSeries GNov 2021 · 2 sources
Sequoia Capital Global Equities (lead), Sofina (lead), Battery Ventures, CapitalG, Dawn Capital, Durable Capital Partners LP, ICONIQ Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global Management
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Collibra provides enterprise software for governing data and artificial intelligence, describing its offering as an "Enterprise AI Control Plane" that sits above an organization's data platforms, models and agents. The platform spans context engineering, an AI Command Center, context governance and data governance, and is intended to let organizations certify and govern business context, serve that context to AI models and agents, and govern what those systems do without relocating data or committing to a single underlying platform.
The product approach is built on ontology engineering: a formal knowledge graph of an organization's business concepts, terms and relationships — including lineage, business rules, definitions and semantics — used to give AI agents and data consumers governed context. Related capabilities include intelligent discovery, lineage, data quality and sensitivity assessment, curated and certified data products delivered through a marketplace, policy enforcement, and AI governance covering agents, use cases and models across their lifecycle. Collibra also references preparation of unstructured content such as emails, PDFs and SharePoint material into curated datasets through automated metadata enrichment, sensitivity screening and quality assessment.
Stated use cases include transforming unstructured data for AI, delivering returns from data products, productionizing AI use cases, and automating risk reporting for regulatory compliance.
Business model
Collibra sells an enterprise software platform to large organizations, with a sales-assisted motion that directs prospects to book demos or contact sales.
Traction
The company reports more than 2 billion data assets managed on its platform and 78 Fortune 500 customers, with published customer stories from SAP, McDonald's, Toyota Motor Europe, HEINEKEN and L'Oréal.
Latest developments
Recent announcements include the launch of the AI Command Center as an end-to-end control plane for AI, being named Databricks' Governance Partner of the Year, an expanded integration with Snowflake to bring governed business context and semantics across the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, and a deepened Google Cloud partnership bringing business context and semantics to Knowledge Catalog.
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Market position
Collibra presents itself as an enterprise standard for AI context and control, citing recognition as a two-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms and a five-time Forrester Wave leader in data governance reports, including a Leader placement for enterprise data governance.
Collibra emphasizes ontology-governed context rather than a simple business glossary, arguing that capturing how concepts connect gives agents one canonical truth, reducing retries, hallucinations and token spend, and providing a single governed view of AI use cases, models and agents; it also stresses platform neutrality, working across any data, model or agent without data movement or vendor lock-in.
Technology
An ontology-based governance layer: a knowledge graph of business concepts, terms, relationships, lineage and business rules that supplies canonical meaning, trust signals and access policies to AI agents and data consumers, combined with automated metadata enrichment, sensitivity screening and data quality assessment, and an AI Command Center for lifecycle governance of models, agents and use cases. The platform is designed to operate across data sources, models and agents without moving customer data.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests, customer case studies, analyst-report positioning, news and webinar series, in-person summits in New York and London, and technology partnerships and integrations with cloud and data platform vendors such as Databricks, Snowflake and Google Cloud.
Large global enterprises and their data, governance and AI teams; the company cites 78 Fortune 500 companies among its customers, with named references including SAP, McDonald's, Toyota Motor Europe, HEINEKEN and L'Oréal.
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.
Founder mafia
5 people who came through Collibra went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 10
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Companies competing with Collibra for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Acquisitions · 1
Early investors' stakes continue via these dealsAcquired by Collibra (exited).
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsCollibra was named Databricks' Governance Partner of the Year, with the two companies deepening their partnership to ground agentic AI in governed context.
Google Cloud and Collibra deepened their partnership to bring business context and semantics directly to Knowledge Catalog.
Snowflake and Collibra expanded their integration to bring governed business context and semantics across the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
Collibra announced the AI Command Center, described as an end-to-end control plane for AI that governs AI agents, use cases and models across their full lifecycle.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- Collibracollibra.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Collibra do?
- Collibra offers an enterprise platform for data and AI governance, positioned as an "AI control plane" for governed context.
- 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 4 more.
- How much funding has Collibra raised?
- Collibra has disclosed $250M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Collibra headquartered?
- Collibra is headquartered in New York, US.