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Collibra Announces the Acquisition of Raito and New, Powerful Advancements in Unified Governance for Data and AI Across Every Data Citizen
NEW YORK and BRUSSELS, June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Collibra, the leader in unified governance for data and AI, today announced new product innovations to empower every data team to more easily govern data and AI. In addition, Collibra has announced the acquisition of Raito, a company specializing in data access governance. The new release, as well as the acquisition, were unveiled at the Collibra Product Premiere events in New York and Brussels. Every organization is looking to AI to automate business processes and support better business decision-making. Some are buying out-of-the-box AI agents that need careful monitoring and access controls to be autonomous, while others are developing custom AI agents and applications that need reliable data to be trustworthy. However, as demand for AI use cases, models and agents grows, organizations are dealing with an ever more fragmented data and AI environment. Rigid and fragmented tools aren't keeping up with these demands. As a result, organizations struggle to maintain clear visibility, control, traceability and access across their entire data and AI platforms. Collibra, a recognized industry leader by multiple analyst firms, closes this gap with its flexible and unified approach to governance for data and AI. It offers organizations a single command center to observe, track, protect and democratize data access across all data sources, for every user, and for any data or AI use case. With Collibra's latest innovations, every data user can now trust that their data and AI are reliable and traceable. That's the power of one. "Organizations face an ever more fragmented data and AI environment as the demand for AI use cases, models, and agents grows." said Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra. "Collibra's latest innovations, as well as the acquisition of Raito, demonstrate our continued commitment to unifying and automating data and AI governance for all data users across all data sources so that organizations can accelerate and be confident in their use of data and AI." This product launch delivers on the power of one by introducing the industry's first platform for unified governance for data and AI that includes data quality and observability. While advancements in AI are opening up once-in-a-generation opportunities for enterprises, legacy challenges — from data silos to fragmented governance — are handicapping most organizations and eroding data confidence. Now, all data professionals — from data engineers, data scientists, data stewards and business users — can say good-bye to untrusted data with even better connectivity, visibility, usability, and automated data quality leading to more accurate AI outcomes. With Collibra's latest innovations, data engineers can automate data quality monitoring and rule creation. Collibra Cloud Sites lets them accelerate data source connectivity with an agentless approach to accelerate time to value. Data engineers can now also track data lineage across AWS Glue and Apache AirFlow pipelines with support for OpenLineage. This enhances traceability, accelerates root cause analysis, and is an example of Collibra's commitment to open standards. Data stewards can now visualize data relationships with a seamless and consistent user experience with new diagrams. They can also develop and deploy workflows more effectively with an updated workflow designer that improves organization and revision tracking. Data stewards can also analyze Snowflake data usage to easily understand which users are using what tables to drive adoption efforts. Plus, thanks to Collibra's acquisition of Raito, data leaders will soon be able to more effectively manage and control access to accelerate secure data consumption across users and AI agents. Data consumers can now easily discover data assets, look up business glossary definitions and search product documentation using simple, natural language with Collibra AI Copilot, our new intuitive chat experience. They can also create, manage and publish trusted data products faster with a new lifecycle progress tracker, built-in assessments and automated workflows. Finally, data scientists can now enhance visibility and oversight over AI models using a single pane of glass with AI model governance. Plus, they'll get increased traceability of AI models with new integrations to Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and MLflow. To learn more about Collibra's latest advancements, please watch our Product Premiere event here and read more about the Raito acquisition here. About CollibraCollibra helps our customers accelerate data and AI use cases — without the risk. Our powerful, unified platform brings flexible governance and continuous quality with automated visibility, control and traceability to the world's leading brands. Collibra unifies governance for data and AI for every user, every use case and across every source so that everyone in the organization can trust, comply and consume their data at scale. This is Data Confidence™. To learn more, visit and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook and Instagram. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Collibra Errore nel recupero dei dati Effettua l'accesso per consultare il tuo portafoglio Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati Errore nel recupero dei dati
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5 days ago
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Collibra acquires data access startup Raito
Collibra, a data governance platform based in Brussels, is the latest enterprise to acquire a data company in order to expand its offerings in the age of AI. On Thursday, Collibra announced its acquisition Raito, a data access startup founded in 2021. Raito, also located in Brussels, helps companies manage which employees and customers have access to internal data. Collibra declined to comment on the terms of the deal. Raito previously raised $4 million in venture funding from investors, including Dawn Capital, Crane Venture Partners, and Collibra itself. Collibra founder and CEO Felix Van de Maele told TechCrunch that while managing data access is not a new problem for enterprises, it is becoming a bigger headache for data teams as more departments seek access for AI agents and workflow automation. "We heard from our customers and large organizations that managing data access at scale has become a really big problem," Van de Maele said. "That's why the traditional approaches just don't scale anymore. They're too brittle. They're manual workflows, [based on] static policies." Van de Maele added that Collibra already has a similar product, Collibra Protect, that touches on these access controls but is primarily focused on keeping data private. Raito's tech will help Collibra bolster and automate that offering. Raito isn't the only company focused on data access. Legacy enterprises like SailPoint and SecureAuth are just a few of the companies also offering data access tools. Van de Maele said buying Raito was the right choice for the company, as opposed to partnering with a legacy player, because Raito is cloud-native and built for the current AI moment. That Raito was founded by former Collibra employees didn't hurt either. "We also [were] looking for teams that want to continue to build, right? It's not the end for this," Van de Maele said. "It is just really the beginning of this journey." This is just the latest acquisition of a data company aimed at addressing a data governance void as companies look to shore up their stack to adapt to AI innovation. Last week, Salesforce announced its intent to acquire Informatica for the same reason. Earlier in May, both Alation and ServiceNow made similar acquisitions. Van de Maele added that advancements in AI have made people realize just how fragmented their data stacks have become, as many players had flooded the market over the last decade with single-point data solutions. "That fragmentation of governance . . .has really become a big problem, and so that's why we were excited to kind of acquire Raito and really make it part of Collibra, our unified governance platform for data and AI," Van de Maele said. Collibra was founded in 2008 as an early player to the data governance sector. The company has since raised nearly $600 million in venture capital from firms including Index Ventures, Sequoia and Tiger Global, among others. The company works with enterprises that include Heineken, Credit Suisse, and SAP. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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5 days ago
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Collibra acquires data access startup Raito
Collibra, a data governance platform based in Brussels, is the latest enterprise to acquire a data company in order to expand its offerings in the age of AI. On Thursday, Collibra announced its acquisition Raito, a data access startup founded in 2021. Raito, also located in Brussels, helps companies manage which employees and customers have access to internal data. Collibra declined to comment on the terms of the deal. Raito previously raised $4 million in venture funding from investors, including Dawn Capital, Crane Venture Partners, and Collibra itself. Collibra founder and CEO Felix Van de Maele told TechCrunch that while managing data access is not a new problem for enterprises, it is becoming a bigger headache for data teams as more departments seek access for AI agents and workflow automation. 'We heard from our customers and large organizations that managing data access at scale has become a really big problem,' Van de Maele said. 'That's why the traditional approaches just don't scale anymore. They're too brittle. They're manual workflows, [based on] static policies.' Van de Maele added that Collibra already has a similar product, Collibra Protect, that touches on these access controls but is primarily focused on keeping data private. Raito's tech will help Collibra bolster and automate that offering. Raito isn't the only company focused on data access. Legacy enterprises like SailPoint and SecureAuth are just a few of the companies also offering data access tools. Van de Maele said buying Raito was the right choice for the company, as opposed to partnering with a legacy player, because Raito is cloud-native and built for the current AI moment. Techcrunch event Save now through June 4 for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Save $300 on your ticket to TC Sessions: AI—and get 50% off a second. Hear from leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Khosla Ventures, and more during a full day of expert insights, hands-on workshops, and high-impact networking. These low-rate deals disappear when the doors open on June 5. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you've built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | REGISTER NOW That Raito was founded by former Collibra employees didn't hurt either. 'We also [were] looking for teams that want to continue to build, right? It's not the end for this,' Van de Maele said. 'It is just really the beginning of this journey.' This is just the latest acquisition of a data company aimed at addressing a data governance void as companies look to shore up their stack to adapt to AI innovation. Last week, Salesforce announced its intent to acquire Informatica for the same reason. Earlier in May, both Alation and ServiceNow made similar acquisitions. Van de Maele added that advancements in AI have made people realize just how fragmented their data stacks have become, as many players had flooded the market over the last decade with single-point data solutions. 'That fragmentation of governance . . .has really become a big problem, and so that's why we were excited to kind of acquire Raito and really make it part of Collibra, our unified governance platform for data and AI,' Van de Maele said. Collibra was founded in 2008 as an early player to the data governance sector. The company has since raised nearly $600 million in venture capital from firms including Index Ventures, Sequoia and Tiger Global, among others. The company works with enterprises that include Heineken, Credit Suisse, and SAP.
