# Sriharsha Chintalapani

> Sriharsha Chintalapani is openMetadata co-founder; Collate co-founder and CPTO. OpenMetadata on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

OpenMetadata co-founder; Collate co-founder and CPTO.

Sriharsha Chintalapani is co-founder and CTO of Collate, which builds on the open-source OpenMetadata project. He is a PMC member and committer on Apache Kafka and Apache Storm, was previously an architect at Uber and Hortonworks, and led engineering teams at Mozilla and Yahoo.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriharsha/

## What Sriharsha builds

- [OpenMetadata](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmetadata.md), graded B, 66.8/100, in Company knowledge & data catalogues. Open-source data catalogue for discovery, lineage, data quality and governance, with connectors to external data systems. OpenMetadata co-founder; Collate co-founder and CPTO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Suresh Srinivas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/suresh-srinivas/), OpenMetadata founder; Collate co-founder and CEO

## Backed by

- [Venrock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/venrock/)
- [Unusual Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/unusual-ventures/)
- [Karman Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/karman-ventures/)

## Questions

### Who is Sriharsha Chintalapani?

Sriharsha Chintalapani is co-founder and CTO of Collate, which builds on the open-source OpenMetadata project. He is a PMC member and committer on Apache Kafka and Apache Storm, was previously an architect at Uber and Hortonworks, and led engineering teams at Mozilla and Yahoo.

### What does Collate, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists OpenMetadata from Collate, Inc.. Open-source data catalogue for discovery, lineage, data quality and governance, with connectors to external data systems.

### Who has invested in Collate, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Venrock, Unusual Ventures and Karman Ventures.

### How are Sriharsha's tools graded?

OpenMetadata is graded B, 66.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sureshsri/details/experience/
- https://www.getcollate.io/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sureshsri/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriharsha/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriharsha/
- https://open-metadata.org/
- https://open-metadata.org
- https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata
- https://docs.getcollate.io

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