Founded by Airbnb and LinkedIn Data Veterans, Acryl Data Re-Imagines Metadata Management With $9 Million in Seed Funding
Summary
Today DataHub is used at well-known brands like Expedia, LinkedIn and Saxo Bank, and the project has more than 3,100 GitHub stars and more than 100 contributors. Its industry-leading streaming architecture powered by Apache Kafka allows for easy integration, creating a common metadata substrate across disparate tools in the ecosystem. To discover the right data, navigate the tens of thousands of derived datasets that our researchers and engineers use every day and manage them well, we rely on DataHub. Its API-first design ensures that companies can implement DataOps practices in their data architectures which allows for safe, reproducible evolutions of their analytics and AI artifacts. This bold mission demands deep and imaginative builder leaders like Shirshanka, Swaroop and their team of founding engineers at Acryl Data.” Insight Partners Managing Director George Mathew said: “The modern data stack needs a fundamental rethink in how metadata is managed.