MarkLogic Corporation, a leader in complex data integration and portfolio company of Vector Capital, announced it has acquired Smartlogic, a premier metadata management solutions provider and leader in semantic AI technology. As part of the transaction, Smartlogicโs founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jeremy Bentley, as well as other members of the senior management team, will join the MarkLogic executive team. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2006, Smartlogic has deciphered, filtered, and connected data for many of the worldโs largest organizations to help solve their complex data problems. Global organizations in the energy, healthcare, life sciences, financial services, government and intelligence, media and publishing, and high-tech manufacturing industries rely on Smartlogicโs metadata and AI platform every day to enrich enterprise information with context and meaning, as well as extract critical facts, entities, and relationships to power their businesses. For the past four years, Smartlogic has been recognized as a leader by Gartnerโsย Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutionsย and by Info-Tech as the preeminent leader of the Data Quadrant for Metadata Management (May 2021).
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Jeff Casale, Chief Executive Officer of MarkLogic, said, โEnterprises are facing significantly more complex data challenges than ever before. By acquiring and integrating with Smartlogic, a best-in-class metadata and AI platform, we provide our customers with the tools to more easily unlock the enormous value embedded in human-generated content. Weโre very excited to work with Jeremy and his talented team as we grow the business and deliver better outcomes for our customers.โ
โSmartlogic unlocks the value in important data sets many enterprises rely on by leveraging sophisticated semantic AI to enable better decision making,โ said Stephen Goodman, a Principal at Vector Capital. โSmartlogicโs ability to deliver actionable intelligence is complementary with MarkLogicโs powerful offerings and we are excited to deliver a more complete and informed perspective to customers through this combination.โ
โThis is an exciting next step for Smartlogic and I want to thank our entire team for their contributions in reaching this achievement,โ said Mr. Bentley. โAs part of the MarkLogic family, we will be better positioned to scale our robust AI platform, invest in our market leading technology, and provide an even greater number of customers with a unified data solution that can help solve their most complex business data problems.โ
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