Datarade

Datarade GmbH operates a global business-to-business marketplace for commercial data. Buyers can search and compare data products — datasets, APIs and databases — across more than 560 data categories (the category index lists 700+ categories) spanning areas such as B2B and contact data, financial and alternative data, geospatial and weather data, AI training data, healthcare, real estate, web and mobile app data. Listings include free sample previews and, where providers publish them, pricing information, and the company additionally offers sourcing advice from in-house data acquisition specialists. Use of the marketplace is free for buyers; the company states it is paid by the provider when a purchase is made.

Alongside the buyer-facing Datarade Marketplace, the company builds software for data providers. Its Data Commerce Cloud, launched in 2022, and the Monda product are positioned as tools for data companies to start, run and scale data businesses across multiple channels, including ingesting external data products into a buyer's data warehouse or cloud storage. Datarade also maintains distribution partnerships with enterprise data ecosystems including SAP Datasphere Marketplace, Google Cloud Analytics Hub, Databricks Marketplace, Alation Marketplaces and AltHub. The company publishes a content library of data guides, provider rankings and industry research covering topics such as AI-ready data and location intelligence.

At the time of the earliest sourced description (2019), Datarade described itself as gathering intelligence on more than 1,500 data providers, automatically matching companies with relevant providers and offering enterprise tooling to track external data usage, spend and compliance across an organization. Sectors cited as using the platform included (re)insurance, technology, finance, pharma, retail, marketing and consumer goods.

Founding story

Datarade was incorporated in Berlin in 2018 by Thani Shamsi, Florian Rösler and Richard Hoffmann, with Shamsi serving as co-founder and CEO. The founders' stated premise was that the global data market, while growing, had become complex and opaque, with limited transparency on data quality, privacy compliance and pricing, making the sourcing of external data slow and largely judgment-based.

Business model

Datarade runs a two-sided platform. The marketplace is free of charge for data buyers, with the company compensated by data providers when a purchase results; providers also pay for B2B SaaS tooling (Data Commerce Cloud / Monda) used to list, market and sell their data. One secondary profile characterizes the revenue mix as recurring subscription or software-license revenue alongside professional services and custom solutions.

Provider-side monetization: commissions or fees paid by data providers on marketplace transactions, plus recurring subscription/software-license fees for the company's SaaS products for data providers. Buyer access to the marketplace is free.

Traction

Company-reported figures: 2,700+ data providers listed and roughly 120,000 monthly buyer visits; the company profile cites 500 data providers using its B2B SaaS product, 100,000 monthly marketplace buyers, 4,000 data products created through the platform, 30,000 buyer-provider matches, and users in 200 countries. Milestones reported by the company include $7.5M+ in marketplace GMV and 1,000 registered providers in 2021, and $1M+ ARR with the 500th Data Commerce Cloud customer in 2023.

Latest developments

Recent site content promotes Monda for ingesting external data products into data warehouses and cloud storage, and the company reports 2,700+ listed providers. Its 2025 research and blog output focuses on AI-related data sourcing, including AI-ready data marketplaces, what AI agents require from external data, and MCP servers as an interface between external data and AI; the company frames its positioning around supplying commercial data for AI.