Vendor

Informatica

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Photo: Redwood Shores February 2013 002 by King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Headquarters
Redwood City, California, USA
Founded
1993
Status
Acquired

Informatica describes itself as an enterprise data management company. It was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Its flagship product is the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, built around an AI engine it calls CLAIRE, with offerings for data catalog, data integration, API and application integration, data quality and observability, and master data management.

Ownership history

  • In 2015, Permira and CPP Investments took Informatica private in a deal worth about $5.3 billion, with support from Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures (source: Wikipedia).
  • It returned to the NYSE on October 27, 2021 as INFA.
  • Salesforce announced on May 27, 2025 that it would acquire Informatica for $25 per share in cash, and completed the acquisition on November 18, 2025. See the timeline entry.

Today

The company’s site now carries the name “Informatica from Salesforce”. Informatica says more than 80 of the Fortune 100 use its services and that it processes more than 132 trillion cloud transactions a month.

Sources

  1. Informatica: About us (opens in a new tab) Primary source
  2. Wikipedia: Informatica (opens in a new tab) Other
  3. Salesforce: Salesforce completes acquisition of Informatica (opens in a new tab) Press release ·

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