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Felix Van de Maele

Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra · 1 appearance on the record.

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Felix Van de Maele is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Collibra. He previously conducted research in computer science before launching the enterprise data governance company.

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10 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported
Collibra's four co-founders split initial equity equally at 25% each
“We just split at 25 each.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 8:26 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

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Assertion Supported
Collibra's four co-founders split initial equity equally at 25% each
“We just split at 25 each.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 8:26 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Insight
Founders have no extra managerial rights, only greater corporate obligations
“As a shareholder, as a founder, I don't have any additional rights as a manager. I only have more obligations, if you will, because I'm a founder.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 9:17 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
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Collibra maintains an annual customer churn rate of 3% to 4%
“Yearly customer churn is really low. It's about three to four percent.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 11:59 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
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Collibra achieves a 120% to 125% net revenue expansion rate
“Yeah, 120, 125.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 12:34 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
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Collibra was profitable and tripling annual revenue before raising Series B
“But then we started to bootstrap it until profitability. We were profitable tripling every year. And that's when we were, we raised our first bigger rounds, our series B rounds. About twenty million.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 2:48 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Assertion Supported
Collibra raised a $50M Series C to reach $75M total funding
“In December, just last December, we did a fifty million dollar rounds series year round. All in we did about seven, seven seventy-five million.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 3:13 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Disclosure
Van de Maele: Collibra aims to enable 'Amazonification of data' for enterprises
“What we want to get is to get to is that we call it the Amazonification of data, where ultimately users just shop for data like they are on Amazon. They put it in their data basket, so to speak, and then it goes to approval work workflows to actually get acces…”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 4:26 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Collibra has close to 200 customers
“Right, so we have close to 200 customers.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 5:13 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
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Collibra sees an average annual contract value of $200K to $250K
“Yes, it varies, but right now it's about 200 to 250 K.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 5:25 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
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Collibra maintains a sales efficiency ratio around 0.9
“It's around benchmark benchmark data around 0.9.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 14:17 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Assertion Supported
Van De Maele: Collibra raised an initial seed round of €800K in Belgium
“And we raised a seed round of about 800,000 euros which at the time was a pretty big deal, especially in Belgium, which didn't really know, doesn't really know venture capital as we have, as we know it here in the US.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 2:37 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Disclosure
Collibra charges via annual plans with upfront cash payment
“Annual plans with cash up front, yes.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 5:46 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
Assertion Supported
Collibra employs around 210 people as of June 2017
“About 210 right now.”
Felix Van de Maele Jun 7, 2017 ▶ 14:54 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

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683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra wit Jun 7, 2017 8m
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