Data.World is a cloud-native, SaaS enterprise data catalog that maps and documents an organization’s data assets using a knowledge-graph approach to provide semantically organized discovery, governance and analytics. The platform offers data discovery, lineage, metadata indexing, privacy controls (masking/hiding/anonymization), secure data virtualization and monitoring for security and compliance. Data.World has an open-source metadata model and integration toolkit called Kos and plans forthcoming automations for metadata and governance tasks alongside UI enhancements. The company reports more than 1.6 million members across customers including the Associated Press and Penguin Random House, and counts states, counties and local government agencies among its users. Management says the new funding will support global expansion, product innovation and talent acquisition as it pursues greater public-sector traction and broader enterprise adoption. Data.World provides a cloud-native enterprise data catalog and agile data governance solution that maps data to business concepts via a knowledge graph, plus on‑premises tools for inventorying and organizing data across systems. The platform supports metadata ingestion via collection agents, APIs, file transfers, and imports, and lets users save and share queries, analyses, and findings. It includes analytics for discovery, fine-grained permissions, automatic provenance and lineage tracking, and a collaboration dashboard with activity feeds and alerts. The company also operates a large open data community that surpassed one million users and includes members from more than two‑thirds of the Fortune 500. Data.World was co-founded by Brett Hurt (CEO), Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens, and Matt Laessig; customers named in the article include the Associated Press, CareOregon, and Wunderman Thompson. The company has about 85 employees and has seen quarter‑over‑quarter customer expansion and a doubling of enterprise customers in the past 12 months. Data.World provides a data catalog that maps data to business concepts to create a unified body of knowledge, offering cloud and on-premises management tools for inventorying and organizing enterprise data. The platform lets users save and share queries, analyses, and findings in real time and supports metadata ingestion via agents, APIs, file transfers, and imports. It includes fine-grained permissions, automatic provenance and lineage tracking, and a collaboration dashboard built on a custom knowledge graph and visualization technologies. The company has launched initiatives like a free Coronavirus Data Resource Hub to support COVID-19 research. CEO Brett Hurt says proceeds from the new funding will be used to accelerate data governance efforts and scale to meet demand. Data.World reports quarter-over-quarter customer expansion and new customer acquisition and counts clients including the Associated Press, CareOregon, and Wunderman Thompson. Data.world operates a collaborative data community and enterprise platform that lets teams upload, exchange and catalog datasets and discuss findings internally. The platform integrates with Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, IBM SPSS, MicroStrategy, Google Data Studio and other analytics tools, and is widely used by journalists. Data.world says its product helps Fortune 500 companies close the “data divide” with digital-native firms by democratizing access to high-quality data. The company recently rolled out an enterprise offering and will use new capital to continue building that product; The Associated Press is a customer. CEO Brett Hurt cites GitHub as an inspiration for democratizing access to data, and the platform has been positioned as a tool for data journalism. Financially, Data.world has raised a total of $45.3M since its 2016 launch, including an $18.7M Series B in February 2017. data.world is a Certified B Corporation and social network for data people that builds a collaborative resource to ease data discovery and collaboration across sectors including health, education, finance, government, public safety, agriculture and weather. Led by co-founder and CEO Brett Hurt, the company offers collaborative workspaces and has launched initiatives such as dwSQL, a new SQL dialect bridging linked data and relational databases. Since its preview launch in July 2016, data.world has introduced core capabilities and projects to drive collaboration within public and private data workspaces. It has powered projects including the White House Opportunity Project workspace, an Anti-Defamation League public workspace, a joint-venture partnership with the U.S. Commerce Department NTIS, the DoD data.mil portal, and publication of metadata for the CIA Crest Archive. The company raised $18.7M in the reported round and has now raised a total of $32.7M. data.world intends to use the funds to continue building its data resource and expand its collaborative capabilities.

Total raised

$132M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Apr 2022