CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ COLLIBRA DATA GOVERNANCE ’ 43 and compliant with regulations such as GDPR . “ We are , so to speak , the system of record for the data team .”
It ’ s certainly a service with high demand – last year , the company celebrated a growth rate of 80 % and today it serves around 300 customers including some of the largest companies in the world . In January , Collibra raised $ 100mn in its Series E funding round , led by Google ’ s investment arm Capital G . This brought the company ’ s value to over $ 1bn , affording it unicorn status . “ We were very happy that
CapitalG and Google reached out to us because the Google engineers said : ‘ This is a really important problem and Collibra is the company that ’ s solving it in the best way .’ I think Google is probably the most mature data company in the world – even around artificial intelligence ( AI ) and machine learning .”
Tech giants are rightly taking an active interest in what Van de Maele dubs the ‘ fintech revolution ’. “ It ’ s all about the customer , and I think within the financial services industry it ’ s hard because you still have that need for
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