Collibra
Enterprise SaaS for data governance, lineage, quality and AI control.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Collibra Belgium BV
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Picardstraat 11 B 205, 1000 Brussels — BELGIUM
- Company size
- 1,001–5,000
- Market role
- B2B SaaS Provider
- Official website
- collibra.com
What Collibra does
Collibra operates a B2B enterprise software model built around a modular SaaS platform and related services. It creates value by becoming the system of record and policy layer for governed data and AI across an organisation’s cloud, analytics and machine learning environments. Revenue expands as customers adopt additional modules such as governance, lineage, quality, access and AI governance, and as deployments deepen across more users, datasets and business domains.
Category differentiation
Collibra is not a consumer app or advertising technology vendor; it is enterprise software for data and AI governance. It is also distinct from pure data catalogue vendors because it combines governance, quality, lineage, access and compliance controls.
Strategic context
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Collibra is a private Belgian enterprise software company that sells a cloud-based platform for data governance, metadata cataloguing, lineage, data quality, access governance and AI governance. Its software acts as a control layer for enterprise data and AI environments, helping organisations document assets, enforce policies, trace lineage, monitor data quality and maintain compliance across distributed cloud and analytics stacks. The company primarily serves large enterprises, especially chief data officers, data governance teams, data engineers, compliance teams, security teams and AI teams. It makes money through contract-based SaaS subscriptions for its platform modules and through professional services for implementation, advisory, integration and deployment support.
Company news briefing
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Collibra has expanded its strategic partnership with Snowflake, launching a bi-directional integration that embeds governed business context and semantic models into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This collaboration integrates Collibra’s AI Command Center and MCP Server with Snowflake Horizon and Cortex to enable real-time metadata management and automated traceability. Furthermore, the company solidified its market position by being named a leader in both the 2026 BARC Score for Data Intelligence Platforms and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms.
Business model & monetisation
Collibra monetises through enterprise SaaS subscriptions sold on bespoke contracts, with pricing typically tied to deployment scope such as modules used, users and data volume. The company also generates service revenue from professional services including implementation, governance advisory, integration, training and deployment support. Its commercial model appears to favour multi-module licensing and enterprise expansion rather than low-cost self-serve adoption.
- Platform subscriptions
- Enterprise SaaS contracts for governance, catalogue, lineage, quality, access and AI governance modules
- Professional services
- Implementation, advisory, deployment support and training
- Expansion licensing
- Additional module adoption, more users and larger governed data scope within existing accounts
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Recent recorded signals
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Collibra acquires trail ML to automate AI governance from policy to production
Recorded impact score: 4/5
Combination brings agent-powered automation, continuous assessment and runtime control to Collibra, helping enterprises automate governance and enforce AI policies, regulations and...
Collibra Launches New Capabilities to Reduce the Hallucination Tax on Enterprise AI
Recorded impact score: 2/5
New Products (Collibra Maestro, Live Map and Guardian Agents) Will Aim to Address Hidden Costs Associated with Scaling Effective AI Use. Collibra Becomes First Data and AI...
Survey Finds 72% of Tech Decision-Makers See AI Initiatives Falling Short
Artificial Intelligence · Recorded impact score: 2/5
A new survey by Collibra and The Harris Poll reveals that 72% of tech decision-makers believe AI initiatives fail due to poor data foundations. The survey, conducted among 306 US decision-makers, found that 87% burn hours re-verifying AI agent context, and 76% face roadblocks moving from pilots to production. Additionally, 51% manually review AI outputs. The report highlights the need for better data governance and runtime controls to scale AI effectively. Collibra's CEO emphasizes the 'hallucination tax' as a hidden cost of manual oversight. The findings also reference Gartner research indicating 50% of enterprise GenAI projects are abandoned after proof of concept.
- 72% of tech decision-makers say AI initiatives fail due to unaligned or poor data foundations.
- 87% of decision-makers say teams regularly re-verify that agent context is accurate.
EU Inc reform faces dilution risk, warn founders and VCs
Policy & Regulation · Recorded impact score: 4/5
A coalition of European startup founders and venture capitalists has published an open letter urging EU lawmakers to preserve the core features of the proposed 'EU Inc' corporate statute, warning that the legislation could become unusable if weakened. The statute, proposed by the European Commission on March 18, 2026, aims to create a unified EU-wide incorporation framework across all 27 Member States, featuring digital incorporation within 48 hours and a European employee stock-option scheme. The letter emphasizes the importance of a central registry, tax treatment of employee stock options at disposal time, and other critical areas such as free choice of registered office and broad access. Signatories include notable VCs (Accel, Sequoia, Atomico) and founders from companies like Alan, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mistral, and Synthesia. As negotiations intensify between the European Parliament and Council before the winter recess, with a deadline in 100 days, various national lobbies, including German notaries, have expressed concerns.
- The European Commission proposed the EU Inc statute on March 18, 2026, to create a unified European company incorporation framework across all 27 EU Member States, including digital incorporation within 48 hours.
- An open letter, signed by European founders and VCs, warns that weakening the statute's core features could make it unusable, and calls for preserving a central registry, stock option tax treatment, and other critical areas.
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Questions about Collibra
What is Collibra?
Collibra is an enterprise software company that provides a SaaS platform for data governance, lineage, quality, access control and AI governance.
Who uses Collibra?
Large enterprises use Collibra through data governance teams, chief data officers, data engineers, compliance teams, security teams and AI teams.
How does Collibra make money?
Collibra makes money through enterprise SaaS subscriptions for platform modules and through professional services for implementation, advisory and deployment support.
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