Collibra
Headquarters
New York, NY / Brussels, BelgiumFounded
2008CEO / Founder
Felix Van de MaeleEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series D+ — $596MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
collibra.com/
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About Collibra
Collibra is a software company that builds a platform for data and AI governance, giving enterprises tools to catalog, manage, monitor, and control their data across the organization. The company was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the STARLab semantic-technology research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel by Felix Van de Maele, Stijn (Stan) Christiaens, Pieter De Leenheer, Damien Trog, and Christophe Gijbels. Van de Maele serves as chief executive officer, and the company runs dual headquarters in New York and Brussels, Belgium.
Collibra's platform combines a data catalog, data governance, data lineage, data quality and observability, data privacy, and AI governance into a single system used by data teams to define ownership, track how data moves, and enforce policy. Its customers are concentrated among large regulated enterprises, including banks, telecommunications carriers, and consumer brands such as Adobe and Heineken. The company competes with providers such as Alation, Informatica, and the metadata and governance offerings of the major cloud vendors.
Collibra has raised roughly $596 million across nine funding rounds from investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Sofina, CapitalG, Iconiq Capital, Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, and Durable Capital Partners. Its Series G round of $250 million in November 2021 more than doubled its valuation to $5.25 billion. The company employs roughly 1,100 people and has expanded its platform through acquisitions, including data-quality vendor OwlDQ and database-monitoring firm SQLdm in 2021.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Collibra competes with, and how they differ.
Alation pioneered the modern data catalog category and is Collibra's longest-running head-to-head rival in enterprise catalog/governance RFPs; it leans more on ML-driven metadata curation and behavioral usage signals, while Collibra leads with policy-first governance workflows.
Informatica bundles data governance (Axon, CLAIRE-powered Enterprise Data Catalog) inside a much broader iPaaS/ETL/MDM suite, competing with Collibra mainly on incumbency within existing Informatica shops rather than as a governance-first specialist.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedAtlan targets a self-serve, engineering-led buyer with faster time-to-value and lower price points than Collibra's enterprise sales motion, positioning itself as the more collaborative, developer-native alternative to Collibra's policy-heavy governance model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedAtaccama ONE unifies data quality, master data management and governance in one no-code platform, competing most directly with Collibra's post-OwlDQ data-quality capabilities rather than its core data catalog product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Collibra's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquired Deasy Labs
Collibra acquired Deasy Labs, a startup founded in 2023 that automates discovery and enrichment of unstructured data, to extend unified governance to documents, transcripts and other unstructured content.
collibra.com - Acquisition
Acquired Raito
Collibra acquired Raito, a Brussels-based data-access-governance startup founded in 2021 by former Collibra employees (and previously backed by Collibra as an investor), to add automated data access controls to its governance platform.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired Husprey
Collibra acquired Husprey, an integrated SQL data notebook platform, to add a collaborative SQL workspace with AI-assisted workflows to the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
collibra.com - Partnership
Strategic investment from Snowflake Ventures
Snowflake Ventures made a strategic investment in Collibra to deepen the companies' partnership, funding expanded policy-enforcement and data-lineage integration between Collibra and the Snowflake Data Cloud.
collibra.com - Funding
Series G — $250M led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and Sofina
Collibra raised $250 million in Series G funding led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities and Sofina, with new investor Tiger Global Management, more than doubling its valuation to $5.25 billion from $2.35 billion in April 2020.
collibra.com - Acquisition
Acquired OwlDQ
Collibra acquired US-based predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ, whose machine-learning anomaly detection became Collibra Data Quality; deal terms were not disclosed.
tech.eu - Funding
Series F — $112.5M, valuation reaches $2.3B
Collibra raised $112.5 million in a Series F round co-led by ICONIQ Capital, Index Ventures and Durable Capital Partners LP, valuing the company at $2.3 billion.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired SQLdep
Collibra acquired Czech SaaS startup SQLdep, which reverse-engineers data lineage from BI tools and SQL code, to extend its data lineage and metadata management capabilities.
tech.eu - Funding
Series E — $100M led by CapitalG, valuation tops $1B
Collibra raised $100 million in Series E funding led by CapitalG (Alphabet's growth equity fund), pushing its post-money valuation above $1 billion and making it the first Belgian tech unicorn.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series D — $58M led by ICONIQ Capital and Battery Ventures
Collibra raised $58 million in Series D funding led by ICONIQ Capital and Battery Ventures, with earlier backers Dawn Capital, Index Ventures and Newion Investments also participating.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series C — $50M led by ICONIQ Capital
Collibra raised $50 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ Capital, with Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital, Index Ventures and Newion Investments participating, bringing total funding to $75 million.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded as a VUB research spin-off
Collibra was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 2008 as a spin-off from Vrije Universiteit Brussel's STARLab semantic-technology research group, by Felix Van de Maele, Stijn Christiaens, Pieter De Leenheer and Damien Trog.
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