Cloudera acquires Israeli startup Octopai to advance metadata and AI integration
Cloudera acquires Israeli startup Octopai to advance metadata and AI integration
Octopai’s automated data discovery and lineage capabilities will amplify Cloudera’s ability to deliver trusted data insights to enterprises.
Data analytics company Cloudera is acquiring Israeli startup Octopai. Founded in 2016 by Gal Ziton and Itay Kahalany, Octopai is currently headed by CEO Yael Ben Arie. It has raised a total of around $18 million to date for its data lineage platform that is equipped with advanced AI for metadata management. The terms of the deal were not disclosed
Octopai employs around 25 people, who will join Cloudera and form its new Israel office.
Founded in 2008 by Silicon Valley veterans, Cloudera came from an early generation of companies who sought to sift through huge stores of corporate information, long before the current AI systems that can read that data and write about it in human-like ways.
Three years ago it was taken private in a $4.7 billion deal. The company went public in 2017, but struggled to turn a profit and was taken private by Clayton Dubilier & Rice and KKR.
Octopai’s metadata management platform leverages automated data mapping and knowledge graphs to enrich and activate metadata to deliver insights into the data landscape. This, coupled with AI copilots, accelerates the use of high-quality data for analytic and AI outcomes.
Cloudera believes that Octopai’s automated solutions for data lineage, data discovery, data catalog, mapping, and impact analysis will complement its modern data architecture strategy.
“When using data to make business-critical decisions, enterprises can’t afford to have blind spots or inaccuracies, and they certainly shouldn’t let identifying trusted data slow down progress,” said Charles Sansbury, CEO of Cloudera. “Our customers need to auto-discover data across multiple repositories, show deep lineage of assets both within and outside the Cloudera estate, and leverage a robust data catalog to identify data assets that can be consumed. The acquisition of Octopai’s platform enhances Cloudera’s data, analytics, and AI platform, enabling customers to have greater visibility of their data regardless of their data management provider.”
“Cloudera and Octopai represent a perfect symbiosis by bringing together centralized data and metadata management,” noted Yael Ben Arie, CEO of Octopai. “By combining Octopai's metadata capabilities with Cloudera's comprehensive data, analytics, and AI platform, we're addressing the critical challenge of understanding and governing data across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This acquisition will establish the Octopai data lineage and catalog platform as the standard for metadata management while accelerating Cloudera’s mission of preparing customers for the AI era. We’re excited to bring enterprise-grade data lineage and metadata management to organizations at an unprecedented scale.”
