1230 Collibra passes $60m in ARR, $133m Raised for Data Governance

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Nathan Latka

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🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Good to not know a lot. Again, data is really critical when you look at GDPR, data as governance.
0:05.2	That's, you know, one reason Kleeber is growing so fast. On top of that, he's driven this company since 2008 with super healthy economics.
0:12.0	Now 300 customers paying on average 16.500 bucks per month. So almost breaking that beautiful kind of $5, $50, $60 million ARR mark.
0:21.4	130% net revenue retention annually.
0:23.9	Again, his team of 300 based between U.S., Europe, and Australia.
0:27.4	$133 million raised.
0:29.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies
0:35.0	and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:40.3	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information
0:46.1	that creates business news headlines.
0:49.7	We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.
0:52.9	I had no money when I started
0:54.1	the company it was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs we're
0:58.5	a bit strapped we have like 22,000 customers with over five million downloads in a very short
1:06.3	amount of time major outlets like ink are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
1:12.3	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:17.0	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Felix Vandemel. He serves as the co-founded and now
1:21.9	serves as the CEO of a company called Calibra. As Calibra's CEO, he's responsible for the
1:26.2	company's global business strategy and has led the
1:28.4	company from idea to founding to more than 10 years of record growth and industry leadership.
1:32.7	Before that, he served as a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory
1:36.7	in Brussels, where he focused on crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration.
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