Entropy Data

What Entropy Data does

Entropy Data GmbH is a German software company founded in 2025 as a spin-off from INNOQ consulting by Dr. Simon Harrer (CEO) and Jochen Christ (CTO), the original authors of the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS), the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS), datacontract.com, and datamesh-architecture.com. The company operates from Monheim am Rhein, Germany, with a headcount in the 1-10 range, and is privately held with no disclosed external funding rounds.

The company builds Entropy Data, a data product marketplace platform that combines Marketplace (self-service discovery and access), Studio (contract authoring and data product development), Governance (policy and compliance), and Semantics (a shared ontology layer with pre-built ontologies for eight verticals). The platform is built on open standards (ODCS, ODPS, and the Open Semantic Interchange specification), exposed via REST API and an MCP server that lets external AI clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) discover and query data products. Entropy Intelligence provides a conversational natural-language interface for SQL generation, and the open-source Data Contract CLI enforces contracts in CI/CD pipelines. The platform ships as cloud SaaS hosted in the EU on Microsoft Azure, as a self-hosted deployment (with a free Community Edition on GitHub), and as a single-tenant Enterprise edition.

The business model is primarily per-editor annual SaaS subscription across Starter (free), Team (minimum 10 editors), Business (minimum 25 editors), and Enterprise (minimum 50 editors) tiers, supplemented by self-hosted subscriptions, single-tenant and managed-in-customer-cloud add-ons, and hourly professional services. Go-to-market combines product-led growth through a free tier and 1-click demo with enterprise field sales for the Business and Enterprise tiers. Customers are horizontal enterprise data teams, AI/ML teams building agents that need governed data access, and data engineering teams implementing data contracts. The company is ISO 27001 certified, a member of the Open Semantic Interchange initiative alongside Snowflake, dbt Labs, and 60+ partners, and a participant in Deutsche Telekom's TechBoost startup program.

Name

Entropy Data

Legal name

Entropy Data GmbH

Website

https://entropy-data.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Entropy Data GmbH is a German data product marketplace platform built on open data contract standards (ODCS, ODPS) and a semantic layer, serving enterprise data, AI/ML, and data engineering teams with self-serve discovery, governance, and natural-language querying for humans and AI agents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Product Marketplace Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Governance Platforms (Policies, Stewardship, Workflows) (HDAEADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Sharing & Data Marketplace Governance (HDAEADAK), Data Security & Access Governance for Data (Entitlements/Policy Enforcement) (HDAEADAH), Data Discovery, Classification & Labeling (HDADAFAF)

Keywords

• Data product marketplace
• Data contract management
• Data governance platform
• Data mesh software
• AI data discovery

Headquarters

HQ city

Monheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS/Cloud Subscription: Per-editor monthly subscription billed annually. Cloud-hosted version with managed AI options. Tiers: Starter (free), Team, Business, and Enterprise with increasing editor minimums and features.
2. Self-Hosted Subscription: On-premise deployment with Team and Business tiers. Bring-your-own-model AI requirement for self-hosted deployments.
3. Enterprise Add-ons: Single-tenant hosting, managed in customer cloud, and professional services for individual customization at hourly rates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Entropy Data is a data product marketplace platform built on data contracts and semantics that makes high-quality data available for humans and AI agents across an organization. The platform combines a self-service Marketplace for data discovery and access, a Studio for designing and managing data products and contracts, and a Governance module for automated policy compliance. It is delivered as cloud SaaS, self-hosted software, or a free Community Edition, with native support for the Bitol Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and Open Data Product Standard (ODPS).

Product overview

Entropy Data is a data product marketplace platform built on data contracts and semantics to make high-quality data available for humans and AI agents. The platform comprises several integrated modules: the core Entropy Data platform with Marketplace (self-service discovery and access), Studio (workspace for data product and contract management), and Governance (policy and compliance management). Supporting capabilities include Semantics (ontological layer for business concepts), Entropy Intelligence (conversational AI interface), and MCP Server (for AI agent connectivity). The platform supports multiple deployment options including Cloud (SaaS), Self-hosted (Community Edition), and Enterprise with advanced features including SCIM, custom roles, test/staging environments, and single-tenant hosting. The open-source Data Contract CLI and Entropy Data SDK enable extensibility. The platform was formerly known as Data Mesh Manager and Data Contract Manager.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Entropy Data Platform A cloud SaaS and self-hosted data product marketplace platform that uses data contracts and semantics to make high-quality data available for humans and AI agents across an organization. Provides Marketplace for self-service discovery and access, Studio for designing and managing data products and contracts, and Governance for AI-driven policy compliance. Sold to enterprise data teams via per-editor subscriptions with a free Starter tier and Enterprise tier minimum of 50 editors.
• Entropy Data Community Edition A free, self-hosted edition of the Entropy Data platform for organizations that want to run the data product marketplace on their own infrastructure. Includes core features with community support and is downloadable from GitHub. Targeted at developers, evaluators, and small teams.
• Data Contract CLI An open-source command-line tool that allows data engineers to test and enforce ODCS-compliant data contracts in CI/CD pipelines. Sends test results back to Entropy Data and is used to validate data quality before production deployment.
• Entropy Data SDK A Java SDK for building custom integrations and event handlers on top of the Entropy Data platform, enabling developers to react to events and trigger actions in downstream data platforms.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration24 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Entropy Data has joined the Open Semantic Interchange initiative - a vendor-neutral standard for expressing and sharing business semantics across data and AI platforms. The company is a member of the OSI Ontology Representation Working Group and supports the OSI 0.2.0-draft. OSI was launched by Snowflake, dbt, and has grown to 60+ industry partners.
• INNOQminorOthersFounders Simon Harrer and Jochen Christ worked as consultants at INNOQ before spinning off Entropy Data in 2025. INNOQ remains a partner in terms of ongoing consulting relationships and data mesh methodology.
• SnowflakecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSnowflake is a co-founder of the Open Semantic Interchange initiative alongside dbt. Entropy Data integrates with Snowflake as a data platform and both are OSI initiative partners working toward semantic interoperability standards.
• dbt LabscoreStrategic or Co-development Partnerdbt Labs co-founded the Open Semantic Interchange initiative with Snowflake. Both companies are working toward standardized business semantics. Entropy Data uses dbt for data products integration.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• DataHub: DataHub is an open-source metadata platform originally built at LinkedIn for data discovery, governance, and data mesh use cases. It is highly comparable to Entropy Data on the data product and metadata layer, though it lacks Entropy Data's native MCP server and ODCS-first contract tooling.
• CastorDoc: CastorDoc is a data discovery and catalog platform with strong emphasis on data contracts, lineage, and self-service analytics. It competes directly with Entropy Data in the data contracts and AI-context space, particularly for modern data stack teams.
• Atlan: Atlan is a modern data catalog and marketplace with strong governance and collaboration features. It is the most direct competitor to Entropy Data's data product marketplace, serving similar enterprise data teams with discovery, access workflows, and AI integrations.

Broad incumbents

• Informatica: Informatica is a large data integration and governance vendor with a catalog and marketplace offering (Informatica Data Marketplace, CLAIRE). It addresses similar use cases as Entropy Data but as part of a much wider data management portfolio spanning integration, quality, and MDM.
• Collibra: Collibra is the established leader in enterprise data governance and cataloging with a broad platform covering stewardship, lineage, and policy. It competes with Entropy Data's governance module but as part of a much larger suite aimed at Fortune 500 data offices.
• Unity Catalog (Databricks): Unity Catalog is Databricks' unified governance solution for data and AI assets, offering discovery, access control, and lineage integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse. It overlaps Entropy Data's marketplace/governance scope for Databricks-native shops, but is bundled with the Databricks platform rather than offered as a standalone product.
• Alation: Alation is a long-standing data catalog and intelligence platform used by large enterprises for data discovery, governance, and analytics. It overlaps with Entropy Data's marketplace and governance capabilities, but offers a broader portfolio without specializing in data contracts or AI-agent connectivity.

Emerging players

• Soda: Soda is a data quality and observability platform that integrates with dbt and modern data warehouses to test and monitor data products. It is adjacent to Entropy Data's data contract testing and quality check capabilities via the Data Contract CLI partnership angle.
• Monte Carlo: Monte Carlo is a data observability platform focused on data reliability, freshness, and quality monitoring. It is adjacent to Entropy Data's data quality and contract-testing capabilities, addressing data trust from a monitoring angle rather than a marketplace/contract angle.
• data.world: data.world is a data catalog and collaboration platform with a marketplace concept for sharing and discovering datasets. It is comparable to Entropy Data's marketplace module, with partial overlap on governance and AI-readiness, though it focuses more on dataset sharing than contract-driven data products.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/entropy-data
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/entropydata

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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