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title: 'Sales at Collate'
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# Sales at Collate

- **Company:** Collate
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-01-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/collate/968c8da8-1709-4630-8dd8-3a05f9fff6eb

## About Collate

## Company Overview
- **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)

## Core Business
- **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](https://www.getcollate.io/about)

## Products & Services
- **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](https://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.

## Market Standing
- **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

## Competitive Advantages
- **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.

## Strategic Focus
- **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.

## Why Work Here
- **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](https://www.getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer)

## Sources
1. [getcollate.io/about](https://www.getcollate.io/about)
2. [getcollate.io/careers](https://www.getcollate.io/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/collateinc](https://linkedin.com/company/collateinc)
4. [jobs.lever.co/collate](https://jobs.lever.co/collate/)
5. [getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer](https://www.getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer)

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