{"id":77596,"date":"2017-01-23T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=77596"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:10:50","slug":"collibra-raises-50-million-series-c-round","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/collibra-raises-50-million-series-c-round","title":{"rendered":"Data Governance Company Collibra Raises $50 Million Series C Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collibra, which specializes in data governance software for business users, has closed $50 million in Series C financing.<\/p>\n<p>The sizeable round was led by San Francisco-based Iconiq Capital with participation from investment firm Battery Ventures and return backers Dawn Capital, Index Ventures and Newion Investments.<\/p>\n<p>The investment will help Collibra continue to fuel its growth as a provider of data governance solutions, the New York-based company says. To date, Collibra has secured more than $75 million in venture funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Collibra integrated data governance platform helps organizations find, understand, and trust the data they need to be truly data-driven enterprises and to gain competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Data&#8217;s day has come. And with that, organizations have recognized that data can only be leveraged as a strategic resource to the extent it can be accessed and, most important, trusted,&#8221; said Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra. &#8220;Collibra is the industry&#8217;s most advanced purpose-built data governance platform and our intent is to continue capturing mind and market share in our field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In October, Collibra released Version 5.0 of the Collibra data governance center platform, which takes an advanced &#8220;consumerized&#8221; approach to data governance technology, enabling business users to &#8220;shop&#8221; for and find data in much the same way as they shop for products in their everyday lives on consumer sites like Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collibra was born to address a real problem: how enterprises can meaningfully leverage data to transform their businesses,&#8221; said Iconiq&#8217;s Jacobson.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/01\/13\/miovision-launches-laboratory-to-advance-traffic-data-as-foundation-for-smart-cities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collibra, which specializes in data governance software for business users, has closed $50 million in Series C financing. The sizeable round was led by San Francisco-based Iconiq Capital with participation from investment firm Battery Ventures and return backers Dawn Capital, Index Ventures and Newion Investments. The investment will help Collibra continue to fuel its growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":75198,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-77596","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/77596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/77596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=77596"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=77596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}