- Organic annual recurring revenue has grown more than 30 percent a year, according to the company
- Oakley plans to expand Graphwise’s go-to-market strategy and pursue add-on acquisitions in a fragmented market
- Oakley will partner with Graphwise’s founders and management team on the next stage of growth
Oakley Capital has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Graphwise, a knowledge graph and semantic data technology provider.
Oakley will partner with the company’s founders and management team to support its commercial expansion.
Graphwise’s software structures enterprise data into knowledge graphs and builds what is known as a “semantic layer,” which the company says makes AI systems more accurate, auditable and able to handle large, diverse data sets. The semantic layer gives large language models a reliable set of facts to reason over, addressing limitations around factual consistency and explainability, particularly in regulated sectors such as financial services, life sciences and the public sector.
Graphwise was formed in 2024 through the merger of Ontotext, founded in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2000 by Atanas Kiryakov, and Semantic Web Company, founded in Vienna in 2004 by Andreas Blumauer and Martin Kaltenböck. The company has delivered annual recurring revenue growth of more than 30 percent a year, and expects growth to accelerate as demand for AI infrastructure increases.
Oakley plans to work with Graphwise’s founders to develop the company’s commercial capabilities and go-to-market strategy, expand its footprint in key international markets, and pursue add-on acquisitions in what it describes as a highly fragmented market.
“AI is changing how every organisation operates, but it also makes trusted, well-governed data more important than ever,” said Peter Dubens, founder and managing partner of Oakley Capital, in a statement. “Graphwise has built an exceptional platform to solve that challenge and has already demonstrated impressive growth.”
Editor’s note: This news brief was produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence.