DataHub, an open-source metadata platform, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $65 million.
The fresh funds raised will be used to expand its DataHub open-source community, which has grown 50x to over 13,000 members. The funds will also used to accelerate its R&D with a focus on AI governance and context management capabilities, scale go-to-market operations and build enterprise-grade customer success capabilities.
“Rapid adoption of AI in the enterprise is revealing the significance of comprehensive visibility, reliability, and trust across their data and AI ecosystem—far beyond traditional data cataloging to a machine-scale world where AI agents become the power users of data. DataHub is uniquely positioned to lead this new category of AI & data context management with our architecture built for extreme scale, performance, and real-time machine-scale automations,” said Swaroop Jagadish, CEO and co-founder of DataHub.
“With the shift toward business-critical AI and customer-facing predictive applications, enterprises need robust metadata management to ensure AI systems can reliably work with data. DataHub provides the context that AI systems need to understand data lineage, quality, and semantics—enabling organizations to unlock the full potential of their AI investments,” said Shirshanka Das, CTO and co-founder of DataHub.
As part of the investment, Lauri Moore of Bessemer Venture Partners will join DataHub’s board of directors.
“Metadata is the missing link enabling organizations to transition from human-scale data analytics to machine-scale enterprise AI. DataHub is uniquely positioned to address this critical need with its schema-first, event-oriented architecture that brings data and model context and control into a single pane of glass. Enterprises will use DataHub to develop AI ‘safely’ – in a way that respects user privacy and ensures people, models, and agents only access the data and context when and where they are supposed to – without compromising velocity,” said Lauri Moore, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Founded in 2021 by Swaroop Jagadish and Shirshanka Das, DataHub is an open-source metadata platform that provides real-time context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility.
The company’s enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities.
DataHub enables organizations to deploy AI in production through an enterprise-grade metadata platform handling 3M+ PyPI downloads monthly.
DataHub claims that its open-source offering is being used by more than 3,000 organizations globally including Apple, Chime, Foursquare, Netflix, Optum, Pinterest, and Slack. The company has experienced 6x growth in selling the enterprise-managed service, DataHub Cloud, over the last two years.
