Collate (OpenMetadata)

Collate, Inc. is based in Menlo Park, California, and was co-founded by Suresh Srinivas and Sriharsha Chintalapani, who previously helped create Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka and Uber's DataBook and founded Hortonworks. The company is the main developer of OpenMetadata, an Apache 2.0 open-source metadata platform, and sells Collate as its managed, agentic version for enterprises that struggle to find, trust and govern data spread across many tools.

Collate unifies data discovery, column-level lineage, data quality tests, observability, governance, data contracts and a data marketplace on a unified knowledge graph fed by 130+ connectors. On top of this metadata it adds AI agents and AskCollate, a conversational interface, plus an AI Studio and SDK and an MCP interface so external AI agents can use governed context. Customers and users named on the site include UnionBank, Santander, S&P Global, Experian, Scout24, Unity and Mango.

• Discovery and catalog: Search and document data assets from 130+ connectors in one knowledge graph.
• Column-level lineage: Traces data flows across warehouses, pipelines and BI tools.
• Data quality and observability: No-code and SQL tests, profiling and incident management.
• Governance and contracts: Glossaries, classification, ownership, data contracts and a data marketplace.
• AI agents and AskCollate: Agents automate documentation, tiering and quality monitoring, with a conversational interface.
• AI Studio, SDK and MCP: Lets teams build agents and expose governed metadata to external AI tools.

A Vietnamese bank can self-host OpenMetadata on-premise to catalog core banking and data warehouse assets with lineage. A retail chain can use data quality tests and alerts on sales and inventory pipelines. A technology company can expose governed metadata through MCP so internal AI assistants answer data questions accurately.

Teams can start on the open-source OpenMetadata core or a free Collate tier (5 users, 500 assets) and upgrade without changing tools. One platform replaces separate catalog, lineage and data quality products, reducing licence and integration effort. Governed metadata gives AI agents better context; the vendor reports 94% versus 59% agent accuracy in its own test. Collate lists SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA compliance and a 99.9% SLA for the managed service.

Enterprises are moving from passive data catalogs to active metadata that feeds AI agents, and open-source options are attractive where licence budgets are tight. Southeast Asian companies building lakehouses on cloud or on-premise infrastructure increasingly look for open-source governance tools that can later be upgraded to managed services.

Collate, Inc. is located at 200 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, California, per its terms. In July 2025 it raised a USD 10 million Series A led by Venrock with Unusual Ventures and Karman Ventures. The OpenMetadata community counts more than 14,000 members and the vendor cites 4,000+ enterprise deployments.