What Zepheira does

Zepheira is a privately held, for-profit company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. According to its own description, the company is focused on "putting library catalogs on the Web to make them more visible and improve the Web with new, credible, highly enriched information." Its work sits at the intersection of library science and open web technologies, with a stated mission of exposing and enriching authoritative bibliographic data so that it can be discovered and consumed beyond traditional library systems.

The company operates with a small team of 11-50 employees, consistent with a specialized professional services or product firm. Specific products, technical architecture, or platform details are not disclosed in the available data; the description points toward linked data, semantic web, and library standards work, but no formal product catalog, integrations, or technology stack is documented. The firm has been in continuous operation since 2007, indicating a durable but narrowly scoped presence in the library/information science domain.

Zepheira's business model, pricing, customer segments, and revenue mechanics are not disclosed in the input. The company has a recorded history of external financing, including an event with Mistral Venture Partners in November 2017 and an earlier event in December 2016, both with undisclosed amounts. No revenue figures, named customers, partnerships, awards, or leadership information are available in the provided source material, leaving commercial scale and go-to-market structure undetermined.

Name

Zepheira

Website

https://zepheira.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Zepheira is a small private company (founded 2007, Reston, Virginia, 11-50 employees) that puts library catalogs on the Web to increase their visibility and enrich web-scale information with credible bibliographic data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Library Data Management

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Libraries and Archives (519210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Library Collections & Cataloging Services (Acquisitions, Metadata, Circulation) (EDAEAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) & Resource Sharing Operations (EDAEAGAK), Document Databases (HDAEAAAI)

Keywords

• Library linked data
• Metadata management
• Library data services
• Linked data platform
• Data enrichment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Reston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Institutional Database Subscriptions: EBSCO generates revenue through subscription agreements with institutions (universities, colleges, hospitals, corporations, governments, K-12 schools, public libraries) that provide access to research databases, ebooks, and discovery services. Access is provided exclusively via participating institutions through multi-year contracts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Zepheira reshapes library data for use on the Web, putting library catalogs online so they become more visible and improving the Web with new, credible, highly enriched information. The company delivers linked-data, metadata, and Web-publishing services targeted at libraries and cultural heritage institutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• OCLC: The world's largest library cooperative, operating WorldCat and a suite of cataloging, metadata, and resource-sharing services. OCLC is the dominant incumbent in the bibliographic/catalog space where Zepheira operates, and has been actively involved in linked-data and BIBFRAME initiatives.
• Ex Libris (Clarivate): Provider of Alma (library services platform), Primo (discovery), and Rosetta (preservation) used by major academic and national libraries. Competes with Zepheira's institutional buyers for cataloging and discovery modernization budgets and has invested heavily in linked-data capabilities.
• EBSCO Information Services: Major institutional research-database and discovery vendor (EBSCOhost, EBSCO Discovery Service) serving universities, hospitals, and public libraries. Overlaps with Zepheira in the library discovery/catalog ecosystem and is increasingly integrating library data with AI workflows.

Direct peers

• Innovative Interfaces: Vendor of the Sierra and Polaris library services platforms used by public and academic libraries. Competes for the same institutional cataloging and metadata modernization budgets as Zepheira, particularly in North American public-library systems.
• SirsiDynix: Long-standing vendor of integrated library systems (Symphony, BLUEcloud) sold to public, academic, and special libraries. Directly comparable as a library-systems vendor with overlapping cataloging, discovery, and resource-sharing modules.

Emerging players

• ByWater Solutions: Open-source Koha and Aspen Discovery implementation and hosting partner for libraries. Comparable to Zepheira as a smaller, specialist services vendor that helps libraries modernize catalog and discovery infrastructure.
• Index Data: Developer of library-related open-source software (Yaz, Zebra, Folio tools) and linked-data / metadata services. A direct comparable to Zepheira in scale and in its focus on linked-data and metadata infrastructure for libraries.
• BiblioCommons: Provider of a library discovery and patron-engagement platform used primarily by public library consortia. Adjacent to Zepheira's catalog-discovery orientation, though focused more on the public-facing discovery layer than on catalog-data enrichment.
• Auto-Graphics: Vendor of resource-sharing and library management solutions (SHAREit, AGent VERSO) used by state libraries and consortia. Comparable to Zepheira in serving resource-sharing and catalog-interoperability use cases.

Others

• LD4P (Linked Data for Production): Lyrasis-hosted community project producing linked-data cataloging workflows and infrastructure for academic libraries. Highly relevant ecosystem initiative that both validates Zepheira's linked-data thesis and represents an alternative path libraries may take.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/zepheiraorg
• Facebookfacebook.com/zepheira
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zepheira

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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