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About metaphacts
We empower global businesses to excel and innovate with knowledge graphs & AI
We empower global businesses to excel and innovate with knowledge graphs & AI
Our mission at metaphacts is to help leading enterprises do what they do—better, by delivering innovative knowledge graph and AI solutions that tackle complex data challenges and unlock opportunities for growth, efficiency and innovation.
We transform data chaos into data clarity, so that everyone across the enterprise (from humans to machines) can understand the data and use it to make smarter decisions that drive business excellence.
About metaphacts
metaphacts is a semantics & AI company delivering innovative solutions that help global enterprises transform data into consumable, contextual and actionable knowledge.
We support customers across a range of industries and use cases, with solutions such as building a semantic layer for enterprise information architecture, creating digital twins, or developing trustworthy AI apps for knowledge discovery.
Our values
Our values are reflected in everything we do—from how we run our teams and build our products to how we connect with our customers.
Our story
We know our stuff. Our founders and leaders have worked with semantic technology and artificial intelligence for over 20 years, and we’ve spent more than a decade helping global businesses build successful knowledge-driven enterprise solutions. We’ve built our business on continuously innovating our technology—not just to keep up with, but to anticipate the future needs of growing enterprises.
Leadership
Sebastian SchmidtChief Executive Officer
Dr. Peter HaaseFounder & Chief Scientific Officer
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Herzig-SommerChief Operating Officer
Irina SchmidtChief Marketing Officer
Johannes TrameProduct Manager
Kai PreussSolutions & Sales Director
Yury EmelyanovDirector of Engineering
Dmitry PavlovDirector of Customer Success
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metaphacts team on their hike at the metaphacts retreat 2024 at the Schluchsee
metaphacts team at the metaphacts retreat 2024 at the Schluchsee
metaphacts team at the Digital Science Retreat 2025 at the PortAventura Park, Spain
metaphacts team at the KGC 2025
metaphacts team at the Digital Science retreat in Brighton in 2023
metaphacts team at the Digital Science retreat in Brighton in 2023
Parts of the metaphacts team at a team meeting in Walldorf in 2022
Parts of the metaphacts team at a team meeting in Walldorf in 2023
metaphacts team at the General Assembly in Heidelberg in 2022
metaphacts team at the General Assembly in Heidelberg in 2022
metaphacts team at the General Assembly in Heidelberg in 2022
A world powered by knowledge
The knowledge to make the world a better place, right at your fingertips. We envision a future where companies making a significant impact on the world—from pioneering life-changing drug discoveries to enhancing essential energy services—can power their innovations using data that is well-grounded, contextual and thoroughly trustworthy. The positive impact on society and the environment would be extraordinary.
As part of this endeavour, we also support numerous projects driven by non-profit organizations or institutions in the academic world by providing free access to our software for their sustainability efforts.
News
metaphacts unveils metis, the new Knowledge-driven AI platform for Enterprises
July 15, 2025
We are extremely excited and proud to announce the GA launch of metis, our enterprise AI platform built on top of metaphactory. Based on a foundation of knowledge-driven, explainable AI, metis offers ...
metaphactory 5.8 introduces AI-assisted semantic modeling, making the modeling process faster and more accurate than ever
July 14, 2025
We’re incredibly excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.8, which introduces many new features to metaphactory, including new AI assistance to metaphactory’s semantic modeling capabilities, ...
Introducing the Knowledge Graph & AI Hub by metaphacts
June 16, 2025
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Knowledge Graph & AI Hub—a global community initiative by metaphacts, created to spark conversations, share ideas and drive innovation in semantic tech ...
metaphacts and Piterion join forces to accelerate Trustworthy AI in Product Lifecycle Management
June 12, 2025
metaphacts, a leading provider of AI and knowledge graph technology, and Piterion, a recognized expert in product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital transformation solutions, are excited to announ...
NotaryPedia Project Launched: Leveraging AI for the Future of Archives
May 2, 2025
We're excited to announce the launch of the NotaryPedia Project, in partnership with the University of Malta, the Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government and the Notarial Arc...
metaphactory 5.7 introduces enhanced vocabulary governance with term-level provenance & collaboration features
March 31, 2025
We're excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.7 which comes with enhanced vocabulary governance features, including term-based provenance tracking, editorial states and review comments to st...
metaphacts and Semantic Partners announce strategic partnership to help customers advance their AI strategy
March 17, 2025
metaphacts and Semantic Partners are excited to announce a strategic partnership, designed to empower organizations to shape and advance their AI strategy through the power of semantic technologies an...
metaphacts joins JIP36 - CFIHOS!
March 12, 2025
We are thrilled to announce that we are now an official member of the Capital Facilities Information Handover Specification (CFIHOS) community, a key initiative under JIP36 (Joint Industry Programme 3...
metaphacts named one of KMWorld’s Top 100 companies that matter in knowledge management in 2025
March 12, 2025
We’re thrilled to be once again included in KMWorld’s list of Top 100 companies that matter in knowledge management!
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metaphacts strengthens commitment to information security and privacy
February 19, 2025
As part of Digital Science, metaphacts is dedicated to safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of its information assets and customer data, while continuously strengthening secur...
metaphactory 5.6 extends visual semantic modeling interface with further expressivity and introduces editorial workflow for vocabularies
December 20, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.6, which comes with exciting additions and extensions to its semantic modeling capabilities, model-driven application building logic and its co...
metaphacts & The Knowledge Graph Conference launch the new KGC Resource Hub
December 18, 2024
The knowledge graph landscape and community have transformed dramatically over the years, shaping the way we understand, model, share and interact with knowledge. As the adoption of AI continues to re...
metaphactory 5.5 strengthens semantic modeling capabilities and launches beta conversational interface
October 2, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.5, which comes with a number of new features and enhancements across the entire spectrum of product capabilities, including improvements to met...
metaphactory 5.4 delivers new features & improvements for data federation, ontology management and app-building
July 10, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.4, which offers major improvements to metaphactory’s transparent federation engine and sees added functionalities to its ontology management an...
metaphacts and Dimensions launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, powered by metaphactory
April 14, 2024
metaphacts and Dimensions are excited to announce the highly anticipated launch of the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, a large ready-made knowledge graph powering AI solutions in the pharmaceutical and li...
metaphactory 5.7 introduces enhanced vocabulary governance with term-level provenance & collaboration features
March 31, 2025
We're excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.7 which comes with enhanced vocabulary governance features, including term-based provenance tracking, editorial states and review comments to st...
metaphactory 5.6 extends visual semantic modeling interface with further expressivity and introduces editorial workflow for vocabularies
December 20, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.6, which comes with exciting additions and extensions to its semantic modeling capabilities, model-driven application building logic and its co...
metaphacts & The Knowledge Graph Conference launch the new KGC Resource Hub
December 18, 2024
The knowledge graph landscape and community have transformed dramatically over the years, shaping the way we understand, model, share and interact with knowledge. As the adoption of AI continues to re...
metaphactory 5.5 strengthens semantic modeling capabilities and launches beta conversational interface
October 2, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.5, which comes with a number of new features and enhancements across the entire spectrum of product capabilities, including improvements to met...
metaphactory 5.4 delivers new features & improvements for data federation, ontology management and app-building
July 10, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.4, which offers major improvements to metaphactory’s transparent federation engine and sees added functionalities to its ontology management an...
metaphacts and Dimensions launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, powered by metaphactory
April 14, 2024
metaphacts and Dimensions are excited to announce the highly anticipated launch of the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, a large ready-made knowledge graph powering AI solutions in the pharmaceutical and li...
metaphactory 5.3 delivers multiple improvements to the ontology editor & graph canvas
March 28, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.3, which comes with new permission roles for ontologies and vocabularies, improvements to the overall usability of the visual ontology editor, ...
metaphacts named one of KMWorld’s Top 100 companies that matter in knowledge management in 2024
March 21, 2024
We’re thrilled to be included in KMWorld’s list of Top 100 companies that matter in knowledge management—for the third year in a row!
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metaphactory 5.2 delivers improved governance of ontologies
January 17, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.2, which comes with several improvements to ontology governance in metaphactory, particularly a new ontology versioning concept and a new edito...
metaphacts and Ontotext launch new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph, supporting the research and academic community
November 21, 2023
Now, you can interact with the Wikidata Knowledge Graph (Wikidata KG) through a robust new end-user interface built by metaphacts and Ontotext. It delivers enhanced functionality and a more intui...
metaphactory 5.1 streamlines collaboration in semantic knowledge modeling
October 11, 2023
We are extremely excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.1, which comes with improved model governance, as well as multiple improvements to the next-gen search.
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metaphactory 5.0 introduces next-generation semantic search & empowers users to enjoy the full range of knowledge discovery
July 28, 2023
We are extremely excited to announce the release of metaphactory 5.0, which comes with a next-generation semantic search component (next-gen semantic search), multiple improvements to semantic knowled...
Graph-Massivizer promotes climate-neutral and sustainable economic sectors boosted by graph data processing
April 5, 2023
The Graph-Massivizer project consortium is happy to announce the official start of this European initiative, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe research and innovation program....
metaphacts is included in KMWorld's 2023 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management
March 8, 2023
We're happy to announce that metaphacts has been included in KMWorld's 2023 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management - a list of knowledge management companies whose offerings ar...
metaphacts joins the Digital Science technology group following acquisition
January 23, 2023
metaphacts, creator of the knowledge democratization platform metaphactory, is pleased to announce that it has joined the Digital Science group following a full acquisition by the technology company. ...
metaphactory 4.8 delivers new features and improvements to semantic knowledge modeling
December 23, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 4.8, which delivers a number of new features and improvements to its semantic knowledge modeling capabilities, as well as new chart types and cha...
metaphacts is mentioned in 2022 Gartner® Building Knowledge Graphs report
November 23, 2022
metaphacts cited as one of the vendors under Ontology Tools and Libraries
In this report Building Knowledge Graphs1 published on July 7, 2022, Gartner® analyst Sumit Pal states that "knowledg...
metaphactory 4.7 delivers new, end-to-end visual instance authoring solution
October 24, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 4.7 which comes with a new, end-to-end visual instance authoring solution, as well as multiple other extensions and improvements to ontology mode...
Team mentored by metaphacts wins MAKEathon challenge
October 12, 2022
We recently had the opportunity to provide a challenge for the MAKEathon organized by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and were humbled when the team mentore...
metaphactory 4.6 delivers improvements to search, user experience and ontology modeling
July 11, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 4.6 which delivers improvements to the search experience, enhancements to the ontology modeling capabilities, as well as other improvements to th...
metaphacts is featured in article on data management challenges and trends by GEN
July 5, 2022
In a recent article on data management challenges and trends in biotech and published by GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), metaphacts COO Daniel Herzig-Sommer spoke about the importa...
Innovation Fund Monitor developed by metaphacts & partners aims at improving the quality of care in statutory health insurance in Germany
June 23, 2022
The German Federal Joint Committee (GBA) has the task of promoting new forms of care projects provided by statutory health insurance as well as healthcare research projects that aim to gain knowledge ...
metaphactory 4.5 supports tight interlinking between ontologies and vocabularies
April 11, 2022
We are happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.5 which delivers tight interlinking between ontologies and vocabularies, a new faceted filtering component, as well as multiple other improvement...
metaphacts is included in KMWorld's 2022 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management
March 10, 2022
We're excited to announce that metaphacts has been included in KMWorld's 2022 list of 100 companies that matter most in knowledge management - a list of inventive knowledge management companies whose ...
metaphactory 4.4 introduces flexible data cataloging capabilities to experience data in context
December 17, 2021
We are excited to wrap up a fruitful 2021 by announcing the release of metaphactory 4.4 which comes with new data cataloging capabilities, a new look & feel, enhancements that further streamline t...
KMworld Drill Down Interview with Sebastian Schmidt
October 11, 2021
Today, organizations need to make information accessible to all their users, not just a select few. But getting information to the people in an organization who need it, when they need it, continues t...
metaphactory 4.3 delivers new pathfinding interface for investigative knowledge graph exploration & targeted problem solving
September 30, 2021
We're happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.3 which comes with a new, intuitive pathfinding interface that supports end users both in exploratively investigating relations between nodes in a...
Webinar Recording: Graph path search with GraphDB 9.9 and metaphactory 4.3
September 29, 2021
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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metaphactory 4.2 lowers the barrier for Knowledge Graph application building with interactive wizards
July 12, 2021
We're delighted to announce the release of metaphactory 4.2 which makes building Knowledge Graph applications easier than ever through interactive, no-code wizards for setting up and configuring searc...
Presentation Recording: Beyond FAIR Data - Consumable Knowledge for R&D Innovation
April 27, 2021
We had a great time presenting at this year's Pistoia Alliance Spring Conference together with Sabine Schefzick, Director of Science and Clinical Analytics and Analytic Innovation at Pfizer.
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metaphactory 4.1 extends knowledge modeling capabilities to include support for managing vocabularies
April 14, 2021
We're happy to announce the release of metaphactory 4.1 which further bridges the gap between IT and business by providing essential tools for knowledge modeling and model-driven decision making.
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Webinar Recording: Accelerated R&D with a FAIR Data Fabric in Life Sciences
April 14, 2021
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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Webinar Recording: Generate Value from Your Knowledge Graph in Days
March 15, 2021
We had a great time delivering this webinar together with our partner Ontotext.
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metaphactory 4.0 Introduces Visual Ontology Modeling for Domain Experts and Business Users
February 17, 2021
We are extremely pleased to announce the release of metaphactory 4.0 - a major release that delivers groundbreaking Knowledge Graph Asset Management capabilities with particular focus on ontologies.
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KompAKI Project Kickoff Meeting
December 15, 2020
The "Competence Center for Work and Artificial Intelligence in the Rhine-Main Area" (Kompetenzzentrum für Arbeit und künstliche Intelligenz im Rhein-Main-Gebiet – KompAKI), met in a virtual setting on...
metaphacts Participates in KompAKI Research Project on Cooperative AI Solutions for the Workplace
October 19, 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in software applications and has the potential to revolutionize the way we work. However, research regarding the impact of new technology on the...
metaphactory 3.6 introduces new components and enhancements for a richer user experience
October 1, 2020
With every product release we strive to deliver new features and improvements that tackle real-world challenges and customer pain points. metaphactory 3.6 introduces a series of new components and enh...
metaphactory 3.5 caters to end users, developers and knowledge graph experts with new search, federation and visual graph interaction features
July 14, 2020
We are proud to announce the release of metaphactory 3.5 which features exciting, user-centric search, federation and visual graph interaction components. These new components cater to user needs acro...
Sebastian Schmidt appointed as Co-CEO alongside metaphacts founder and CEO Peter Haase
July 7, 2020
We are extremely excited to announce that Sebastian Schmidt has been appointed as Co-CEO alongside metaphacts founder and CEO Peter Haase, effective July 1, 2020.
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metaphacts aims to strengthen the Knowledge Graph community as key contributor to the Eclipse RDF4J open source project
June 2, 2020
At metaphacts we believe that a strong open source community is key to continuous innovation and collaboration. That's why we are committed to strengthening the Knowledge Graph community by taking an ...
metaphacts Achieves Amazon Linux 2 Ready Designation
April 21, 2020
We are proud to announce that metaphacts has achieved the Amazon Linux 2 Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program, and was included as an official Amazon Linux 2 ...
metaphactory 3.4 Reduces the Time to Market for Knowledge Graph Applications
April 7, 2020
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 3.4 featuring multiple extensions and revamps to reduce the time to market for Knowledge Graph applications, increase performance and stability, ...
AWS Marketplace lists metaphactory as first Graph Data Management Solution and references joint success story at Siemens Gas and Power
March 27, 2020
We are excited to announce that metaphactory is now available as the first solution for graph data management on AWS Marketplace.
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New Release - metaphactory 3.3
December 27, 2019
We are excited to announce the release of metaphactory 3.3. This release comes with multiple user interface and security extensions that will tremendously improve customer day-to-day operations and en...
New Release - metaphactory 3.2
November 15, 2019
metaphactory empowers customers to build and manage their own knowledge graphs, extract the most value out of their data, and reach smarter business decisions. It supports knowledge graph management, ...
Building Biodiversity Knowledge Graphs
November 11, 2019
A recent paper published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and presented at Biodiversity Next 2019 describes how metaphactory and Wikidata are implemented to build an Integrated Flora of Canada and ...
Materials Science Knowledge Graph at Bosch
November 6, 2019
Aiming to support engineers in developing and introducing new materials for production, Bosch is building a knowledge graph that exposes material science knowledge and supplies high-quality answers ab...
metaphacts acquires VISmart and enriches metaphactory with Sputniq, the commercial version of Ontodia
September 2, 2019
metaphacts, creator of the leading knowledge graph platform metaphactory, today announced the acquisition of VISmart Ltd.
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metaphacts 3.1 Released
September 2, 2019
metaphactory empowers customers to build and manage their own knowledge graphs, extract the most value out of their data, and reach smarter business decisions. It supports knowledge graph management, ...
Interview with Peter Haase for SEMANTiCS 2019: Just Start Working On Your Knowledge Graph
August 9, 2019
In this interview with the SEMANTiCS 2019 team, metaphacts CEO Peter Haase talks about his career and fascinating experiences, as well as about metaphacts' mission to make knowledge graphs a technolog...
metaphactory 3.0 lowers the entry barrier to gaining value from knowledge graphs
May 21, 2019
At metaphacts we continuously strive to deliver the best software solutions to meet our customers' requirements for building, managing and interacting with enterprise knowledge graphs. Today, we are e...
Exploring Knowledge Graphs on Amazon Neptune using metaphactory
January 14, 2019
In a new AWS blog post, users can learn how to get started with knowledge graphs using metaphactory and Amazon Neptune, and without any prior knowledge of RDF or SPARQL. The blog post explains how to:...
metaphactory 2.4 is here!
December 17, 2018
We are excited to wrap up 2018 by announcing the latest metaphactory release. The 2.4 release comes with various extensions to our platform components, including:
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Industrial Knowledge Graph at Siemens
December 14, 2018
An article discussing the Siemens Industrial Knowledge Graph was recently included in the Online Themenspecial, a newsletter published by the German IT magazine OBJEKTspektrum.
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metaphactory for data.world
September 24, 2018
We are excited that metaphactory was recently featured in a blog post on data.world! The blog post explains how customers can easily use data.world together with metaphactory to rapidly build new appl...
metaphactory now available on AWS Marketplace
September 18, 2018
We are proud to announce that metaphactory for Amazon Neptune is now available on AWS Marketplace!
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metaphacts is CyberForum Member
June 20, 2018
We are delighted to announce that metaphacts is now a member of CyberForum, the largest hightech business network in Europe!
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metaphactory 2.3 is here!
May 9, 2018
At metaphacts we continuously strive to deliver the best software solutions to meet our customers' requirements for constructing, managing and interacting with enterprise knowledge graphs.
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We are hiring!
May 9, 2018
Do you want to be part of a team that strives to develop cutting-edge products and solutions for their customers and users? Then join metaphacts!
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Siemens and metaphacts showcase Enterprise Knowledge Graphs on Amazon Neptune
November 29, 2017
Siemens and metaphacts are among the first Amazon Neptune users and show several use cases for enterprise knowledge graphs using the new service and metaphactory.
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DATAVERSITY features Onboarding Enterprise Knowledge Graphs with metaphactory
October 26, 2017
In the latest DATAVERSITY.net article discussing the adoption of enterprise knowledge graphs, Jennifer Zaino, a DATAVERSITY® contributor, provides a detailed account of metaphacts' position in the sem...
metaphacts acquires SearchHaus and adds smart data search engine GraphScope to its portfolio
August 22, 2017
metaphacts today announced the acquisition of SearchHaus, a startup specialized in search solutions for graph data, thus expanding its product portfolio as well as its team.
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metaphacts has moved to new offices
March 31, 2017
We are happy to announce that we have relocated to new office spaces in Walldorf, Germany.
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Blazegraph GPU promises extreme scaling and is 100x faster
March 29, 2016
The memory bandwidth advantages of GPUs provide a great way to accelerate data-intensive analytics and graph analytics in particular. Graph query and iterative graph analytics has demonstrated signifi...