# data.world

> data.world is an Austin-based enterprise data catalog and governance software company, acquired by ServiceNow in July 2025. Its cloud-native platform uses a knowledge graph to connect data assets with business definitions, ownership, policies and lineage, helping teams discover and use data and supply context to AI applications. It also operates a collaborative open-data community.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Brett Hurt (Co-founder and founding CEO), Matt Laessig (Co-founder and founding COO), Jon Loyens (Co-founder and founding Chief Product Officer), Bryon Jacob (Co-founder and founding CTO)
- **Products:** Open-data community, Enterprise Data Catalog, DataOps application, AI Context Engine
- **Notable:** Reported USD 132.3 million in total fundraising in April 2022., Reported more than 1.6 million open-data community members in 2022., AP case study reports doubled data production and more than doubled customer reach.

## Products & services

- **Open-data community** — Public datasets, projects, querying and collaboration for people working with open data.
- **Enterprise Data Catalog** — Cloud-native catalog connecting metadata, business terms, owners, policies and lineage through a knowledge graph.
- **DataOps application** — Mighty Canary-derived automation delivering data health updates and catalog context into BI and collaboration tools.
- **AI Context Engine** — Supplies governed business context to LLM applications using the catalog knowledge graph; full rollout followed a March preview.

## Achievements

- Reported USD 132.3 million in total fundraising in April 2022.
- Reported more than 1.6 million open-data community members in 2022.
- AP case study reports doubled data production and more than doubled customer reach.
- WPP case study reports more than 1,500 active users and use across 70% of agencies.
- Named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Enterprise Data Catalogs for DataOps, Q2 2022, according to its 2023 announcement.
- Acquisition by ServiceNow closed in July 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Announced AI Context Engine private preview.
- **2024-05** — Announced full rollout of AI Context Engine.
- **2025-05** — ServiceNow signed an agreement to acquire data.world; financial terms were undisclosed.
- **2025-07** — ServiceNow confirmed completion of the acquisition in its second-quarter results.

## Links

- Website: https://data.world/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data.world/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/datadotworld
- GitHub: https://github.com/datadotworld
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datadotworld

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