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Pentaho

Founded 2004 · 163 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

Pentaho provides a data integration and governance platform that helps organizations integrate, prepare, optimize, and analyze data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform serves enterprise data teams and enables faster AI adoption through built-in governance, automation, and data management capabilities.

Also known as Pentaho

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Founders & leadership

MLMaggie Laird
Maggie LairdinPresident Pentaho

Investors · 2

Dag VenturesPalo Alto
Index VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Pentaho provides a data platform that lets organizations integrate, prepare, optimize and analyze both structured and unstructured data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Its stated capabilities include data integration, governed data pipelines, real-time insights and built-in compliance, with the goal of making enterprise data trusted and ready for artificial intelligence use cases.

The platform emphasizes built-in governance, automation and real-time visibility, which the company positions as helping data teams accelerate insights, reduce storage costs and maintain trusted data. Published customer use cases include metadata exposure and centralization, vendor management and metadata management.

Traction

Claims adoption by 73 of the Fortune 100, with named customer references including LightBox and the State of Arizona Department of Water Resources.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

States that 73 of the Fortune 100 are customers and that the platform has been recognized by industry analysts and industry leaders.

Technology

A data platform for integrating, preparing, optimizing and analyzing structured and unstructured data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments, with governance, automation, data lineage and real-time visibility features.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by contact-driven engagement ("Let's talk data"), customer success stories, product videos, and content marketing such as reports, guides and blogs on AI-ready data, data lineage and data quality.

Enterprise data teams and data management/governance functions across sectors; referenced customers include LightBox (enterprise data governance and management) and the State of Arizona's Department of Water Resources (office of enterprise data management, water resource managers and hydrologists).

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Fortune 100 customersJan 202573 companies
HeadcountAug 2026163

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Pentaho went on to found or lead other companies.

Brian BenedictGlobal Sales Director - Financial Services (acquired by Hitachi)Founded Arcee AIKen AhrensEnterprise Sales EngineerFounded Speedscale

Competitors · 4

by search overlap
Netezza58 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
Sumble19 shared keywordsSumble provides GTM teams with a structured view of target accounts, mapping teams, reporting lines, technologies in use, hiring activity, and buying signals so reps can identify decision-makers and personalize outreach. It serves sales, growth, RevOps, and GTM teams selling into technical or complex accounts.
Hevodata17 shared keywordsHevo provides a data pipeline platform that transforms raw data into clean, structured datasets for reporting, dashboards, and analysis, with support for SQL and dbt Core models. It offers native orchestration, scheduling, lineage tracking, and monitoring for data teams building analytics workflows.
Dremio15 shared keywordsDremio provides an Agentic Lakehouse platform that enables fast, governed access to enterprise data across multiple sources without ETL, with an AI Semantic Layer for business context and autonomous infrastructure management. The platform serves knowledge workers and AI agents seeking instant access to trusted data without traditional data platform complexity.

Companies competing with Pentaho for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

In the news

Pentaho secures USD23m C round led by NEA - Private Equity Wireprivateequitywire.co.uk · Oct 2012Pentaho Raises $23M in Series C Funding - FinSMEsfinsmes.com · Oct 2012Pentaho (Open source BI) Takes $12 Million Series Ctechcrunch.com · Feb 2008Pentaho Takes $12 Million Series C | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Feb 2008

▸Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Pentaho do?
Pentaho offers a data integration, governance and analytics platform for enterprise data teams preparing for AI.
Who are Pentaho's investors?
Pentaho's investors include Dag Ventures, Index Ventures.