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data.world is an Austin-based enterprise data catalog company founded in 2015 by Brett Hurt, Jon Loyens, and Bryon Jacob, among others. The company operates a dual-sided model: a free collaborative community for open datasets and a paid enterprise data catalog platform that competes primarily against Alation and Collibra. As of April 2023, data.world had raised a total of $132 million, including a $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2022, and had grown to a team of approximately 150 people.
The company publicly launched on July 11, 2016, and did not generate its first dollar of revenue until 2018, having raised more than $50 million before that milestone. Its platform supports over 95 integrations with modern data tools including Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Looker, and releases software more than 1,000 times per year. Ownership is split roughly 50/50 between investors and internal stakeholders.
Brett Hurt, who serves as CEO and Co-founder, previously co-founded Bazaar Voice, which reached over $100 million in ARR at its 2012 IPO on just $23 million raised, and Coremetrics, which was acquired by IBM for $300 million in 2010. Hurt and his wife operate Hurt Family Investments, which has invested in more than 130 startups and 40 venture capital funds over 12 years.