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= Stardog Union = Stardog Union (also called Stardog) is a privately held data management company headquartered in Arlington, VA*. The company’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform is based on W3C* standards for semantic technologies*.

History
Stardog’s founders Kendall Clark, Evren Sirin, and Michael Grove have a history of contribution to the W3C open standards and the field of semantic technologies. Stardog CEO Kendall Clark previously chaired the working group, DAWG, that created SPARQL, in addition to serving on W3C[3] working groups. Stardog CTO, Evren Sirin, authored the first sound and complete OWL-DL reasoner Pellet. Evren Sirin has also authored a number of research papers on concepts in OWL, which have been cited over 10,350 times.

Clark, Sirin and Grove began working together on a Knowledge Graph services firm Clark & Parsia LLC in 2004. They built NASA an expertise matching service, POPS (People Organizations Projects and Skills), to enable project staffing and resource management.

In 2016, Stardog completed its seed round. https://vcnewsdaily.com/stardog/venture-capital-funding/lkzxpnhztb

In 2020, Stardog joined the Cloud Information Model (CIM), an application-agnostic data model that simplifies data integration. CIM is also based on the W3C open standards. CIM is managed by the Linux Foundation and was first announced at Dreamforce in 2019, when Salesforce donated their customer data model to the Linux Foundation. Stardog is a contributing partner to CIM, alongside the CIM founding partners Amazon Web Services*, Genesys*, and Salesforce*.

Funding
Stardog completed their seed round of funding on July 20, 2016 lead by Core Capital Partners and Boulder Ventures. On October 24, 2017, Stardog announced their Series A funding lead by Grotech Ventures and existing investors Core Capital and Boulder Ventures, followed by an expansion of $3 million on January 3, 2018 with Tenfore Holdings.

On October 29, 2019, Stardog raised their Series B funding of $9 million, lead by Tenfore Holdings. They expanded their Series B funding on May 8, 2020, and received an additional $3 million from new investors Contour Venture Partners, Dcode Capital, and Presidio Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation.

Awards & Press

 * Stardog named Fast Company’s  ‘The 10 most innovative enterprise companies of 2020’
 * Stardog named DCA Live’s ‘Red Hot Companies’
 * Stardog named DBTA’s 2020 ’100 Companies That Matter Most in Data’
 * Stardog named KMWorld’s 2020 ’100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management’
 * Stardog named BestinBiz’s 2019 ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year – Enterprise’
 * Stardog named KMWorld’s ‘Trend-Setting Products of 2019’
 * Stardog named DBTA’s 2019 ‘100 Companies That Matter Most in Data’