Select Star
AcquiredSan Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · Delaware corporation · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Select Star offers an automated data catalog that lets teams search, document, and understand their data assets, with features like a business glossary, data lineage, popularity metrics, and entity relationships. It also provides AI-driven documentation and data product management tools for data teams.
Also known as Select Star Inc.
Founders & leadership
Select Star was founded in 2020 by SHINJI KIM.
Investors · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$2.5M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2020–2025
- Undisclosed amountSeries BDec 2025Source ↗
- $15MSeries AJan 2023 · 3 sources
Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead)
Source ↗
▶$2.5MraisedJun 2020 · 26 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- SHINJI KIMExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Offering amount
- $2.5M
- Amount sold
- $2.5M
- First sale
- Apr 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2020
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Select Star operates a metadata context platform that automatically catalogs, documents and maps an organization's data assets. The platform connects directly to data warehouses and BI tools to pull metadata, query history and activity logs, then runs them through a query parser into a unified metadata store that determines what data exists, where it lives and how it is used. Popularity scores derived from query history rank columns, tables and dashboards so the most-used assets surface first.
Core product modules include an automated data catalog with auto-generated documentation and tagging, cross-platform column-level data lineage for tracing data flows and downstream impacts, entity-relationship diagrams inferred from SQL queries and joins as well as declared primary/foreign keys, an "Ask AI" assistant, data access control, and an MCP server that exposes metadata, lineage and semantic models to LLMs and agents through a single API. A semantic model generation feature reverse-engineers logic embedded in BI dashboards to supply context to tools such as Snowflake Cortex Analyst. Stated solution areas are data governance, data democratization, data migration, change management, cost optimization, AI-ready data and semantic model generation.
The company states it handles customer data under AICPA SOC 2 Security, Confidentiality and Availability standards and offers one-click integrations with common data warehouses, ELT/ETL tools and BI platforms.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 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.
Competitors · 10
by search overlapCompanies competing with Select Star for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsCompany news post announcing "Select Star Joins Snowflake: A New Chapter for AI + Data Discovery."
Company news post describing Select Star joining Snowflake and other industry leaders to launch the Open Semantic Interchange, turning BI dashboards into AI-ready semantic models.
Launch of the Select Star MCP Server providing data context to AI code editors, AI agents and LLMs; the MCP offering was also made available in the AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools category.
Select Star announced a $15 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Bowery Capital, Sozo Ventures and Pebblebed, bringing total funding to $20 million.
$15M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Select Starselectstar.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Select Star do?
- Select Star is a metadata platform offering an automated data catalog, column-level lineage and semantic models for data and AI teams.
- Who founded Select Star?
- Select Star was founded by SHINJI KIM in 2020.
- Who are Select Star's investors?
- Select Star's investors include Backbone Angels, Bowery Capital, Cardinia Ventures, Data Tech, Sozo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pebblebed.
- How much funding has Select Star raised?
- Select Star has disclosed $2.5M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Select Star headquartered?
- Select Star is headquartered in San Francisco, US.






