Felix Maele
- Co-Founder and CEO at Collibra
GetLatka interview
How Collibra Reached Close to 200 Customers and $75M Raised with 120% Net Revenue Retention (Interview with Felix Van de Maele)
Felix Maele (Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra) spoke to Nathan Latka on March 3, 2017.
Collibra figures from the interview
- Total Funding Raised
- $75M
- Customers (2017)
- Close to 200
- ARPU (2017)
- $200K per year
- Net Revenue Retention (2017)
- 120%
“So basically, we're a software company, SaaS company, and we help typically larger organizations to better find, understand, and control their data.”
“We raised a seed round of about €800,000 which at the time was a pretty big deal, especially in Belgium, which didn't really venture capital as we know it here in The US. But then we started to bootstrap it until profitability, and we were profitable tripling every year and that's when we raised our first big rounds, our Series B rounds of about 20,000,000, and then we were in kind of full growth mode.”
“In December, just last December, we did a $50,000,000 round, Series C round. All in we did about 75,000,000.”
Bio
Felix Van de Maele Co-founder, CEO Felix co-founded Collibra and serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. As Collibra's CEO, Felix is responsible for the company's global business strategy and has led Collibra from idea to founding to more than ten years of record growth and industry leadership. Prior to co-founding Collibra, Felix served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he focused on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration. He holds a Masters degree in Applied Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, a Master of Science degree in software engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Master of Science degrees from Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), and a Master in General Management degree from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.