Sales at Collate (San Francisco, CA)

Collate· San Francisco, CA·2d ago

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Culture: “Grow Together” – collaboration-focused, transparent, and customer-obsessed. Small team with no bureaucracy; direct access to founders.
Remote/Hybrid: Fully remote company with a strong remote culture; headquarters in Saratoga, CA, and an office in Menlo Park.
Notable perks: Competitive salary and seed-stage equity; medical, dental, and vision insurance; work with smart, motivated peers; opportunity to shape engineering culture as an early employee. getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer

One-liner: Collate is a unified platform for data discovery, observability, and governance, powered by OpenMetadata, that helps data teams build trust in data and accelerate AI and analytics.
Entity Type: Private (Series A, $10M total funding)
Headquarters: Saratoga, California, United States
Founded: Not publicly available
Founders: Suresh Srinivas (Co-Founder & CEO); an unnamed Co-Founder & CTO (former architect at Uber, Hortonworks, and contributor to Apache Kafka/Storm)

Primary industry: Data management, metadata management, data governance, data observability
Target customers: B2B – data teams at Fortune 500 enterprises and innovative startups
Mission or purpose: “Take the chaos out of the lives of data practitioners by providing a single pane view of all your data, and empowering collaboration.” getcollate.io/about

Collate Platform (SaaS): A unified semantic metadata graph that connects data assets, pipelines, metrics, and business concepts. Enables data discovery, observability, governance, and collaboration.
Collate 2.0 (AI for Data Platform): Adds agentic automation and orchestration, a Context Layer (Context Center, Memory, Persona-Based Context, Context API/MCP Tooling), AI Analytics (natural language to governed dashboards with verifiable reasoning), and AI Studio for custom agents. linkedin.com/company/collateinc
OpenMetadata (Open Source): The leading open standard for metadata management, created by the Collate team. Drives an active community of thousands globally.

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed
Key Metric: Total funding of $10M (Series A, August 2025, led by Venrock)
Notable Investors/Partners: Venrock (lead Series A), Unusual Ventures (seed backer)
Growth Signals: Headcount grew 83.8% year-over-year to 57 employees; distributed across 7 countries (India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Italy); active job postings; 12,600+ LinkedIn followers (+155% year-over-year); launched Collate 2.0 in August 2026

Built on OpenMetadata: An open, community-driven standard that ensures interoperability with any data and AI system.
Founding team pedigree: Co-founders from Hortonworks (co-creators of Hadoop), Uber’s data infrastructure, and contributors to Apache Kafka, Storm, Atlas, and Databook.
AI-native approach: Context layer and agentic automation differentiate from legacy governance tools.
Strong open-source community: Thousands of contributors and adopters worldwide.

Current priorities: Scaling the AI for Data platform (Collate 2.0), deepening agentic automation and orchestration, expanding the semantic metadata graph, and enabling trusted AI analytics.
Growth direction: Helping organizations move from fragmented metadata to a unified context layer that powers both human and AI data workers.

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