data.world

data.world is a developer of a data catalog platform. The platform is a cloud-native software-as-a-service platform developed to provide users with a knowledge graph for data discovery, data governance, and insights. The company's platform can map siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts and create a unified body of knowledge that anyone can use and understand to help organizations solve problems faster.

data.world was founded in 2015 by Brett Hurt, Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens, and Matt Laessig and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company operates as a public benefit corporation, as a Certified B Corporation.

data.world's platform is an enterprise data catalog, or an inventory of all data assets within an organization. As a data catalog, the platform describes where data is stored, how to locate data sources, who can access those data sources, and who in an organization is responsible for the data. What sets data.world apart from other data catalogs, according to its founders, is that it is built on a knowledge graph which offers organizations a semantically-organized view of an organization's data and metadata.

The platform includes tools for automation, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for assisted searches, contextual search results, auto-enrichment, and offer an extensive data lineage. Part of this includes data.world's Archie Bot, a chat-based generative AI tool that offers users context-specific results to make searching for specific data easier for a variety of users, auto-enrich the data with natural-language descriptions, and help users find relevant data quickly.