Collibra
Collibra provides an enterprise AI control plane and unified platform for data and AI governance. It helps organizations make data and AI discoverable, understandable, trusted, compliant and controllable across sources, models and agents.
At a Glance
- Large enterprises
- Fortune 500 companies
- Financial services and banking
- Insurance
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Collibra
Enterprise AI Data Governance Platform
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Latest News
Collibra acquires trail ML to automate AI governance from policy to production
Collibra launches new capabilities to reduce the hallucination tax on enterprise AI, including Collibra Maestro, Live Map and Guardian Agents
Collibra named Databricks' Governance Partner of the Year and deepens its partnership
Snowflake and Collibra expand integration for governed business context and semantics
Products & Services
Cloud platform and context/control engine connecting data producers and consumers across structured and unstructured sources.
Finds, inventories and explains data assets across the enterprise.
Governance operating model, policies, workflows, business glossary and accountability for data and AI.
Automated data-quality monitoring, rule creation and observability for trusted analytics and AI.
Market Position
Collibra positions itself as a unified, cloud-native control and context plane spanning data catalog, governance, quality, lineage, privacy and AI/agent governance, rather than a point data-catalog or isolated AI-governance product. Its principal competitive set includes Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, IBM and Atlan, with differentiation centered on governance breadth, semantic context, enterprise scale and ecosystem integrations.
Leadership
Founders
Felix Van de Maele
Researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, specializing in ontology-focused crawlers, semantic web and semantic data integration; later became Collibra CEO.
Stijn Christiaens
Senior researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel focused on application-oriented semantics; holds degrees in information technology and artificial intelligence and became Collibra's Chief Data Citizen.
Pieter De Leenheer
Computer scientist and co-founder from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel research community; he worked with Van de Maele and Christiaens on the original semantic/data-governance venture.
Executive Team
Felix Van de Maele
Founder and CEO
Former STARLab researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel focused on semantic web and data integration; leads Collibra's global strategy.
Stijn Christiaens
Founder and Chief Data Citizen
Former Vrije Universiteit Brussel semantics researcher; leads Collibra's Data Office, data strategy and internal data infrastructure.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Collibra began in 2008 in Belgium as a Vrije Universiteit Brussel-linked effort by researchers working on semantic web, ontology and semantic data integration. The founders aimed to help organizations create a common understanding of complex data and make data assets easier to find, govern and use; the company introduced its first end-to-end data platform in 2011.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Enterprise cloud software sold through subscription/licensing contracts, with sales-led demos, implementation and professional services; the company also distributes through partner marketplaces such as SAP Store.
Target Markets
- Large enterprises
- Fortune 500 companies
- Financial services and banking
- Insurance
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Retail and consumer packaged goods
- Enterprise data governance
- AI governance and responsible AI
- Data quality and observability
- Data cataloging and self-service discovery
- Lineage and impact analysis
- Privacy, compliance and regulatory risk management
- Adobe
- BNY Mellon
- BNP Paribas Fortis
- DNB