Category timeline
24 months that rebuilt the category
From MCP's launch (Nov 2024) to the completed Fivetran + dbt merger (Jun 1, 2026), with corrected dates. Filter by event type; each row links to its cited corpus paragraph.
Apr 2023
Palantir AIP launches on the Ontology foundation
Product#41
Jun 2024
Dataiku DSS 13 - LLM Mesh launch
Product#80
Nov 25, 2024
Anthropic launches the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Standard#3
Feb 2025
DataRobot acquires Agnostiq / Covalent
M&A#90
Mar 2025
Alation Agentic Platform + AI Agent SDK; ServiceNow acquires Moveworks ($2.85B)
Product#112
Mar 2025
Gable.ai raises $20M Series A (Databricks Ventures co-lead) for contract enforcement
Capital#142
Apr 9, 2025
Google announces the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol
Standard#5
Apr 24, 2025
Dataiku ships 'AI Agents with Dataiku' (Agent Connect, Safe Guard, Trace Explorer)
Product#80
May 7, 2025
ServiceNow acquires data.world for a Workflow Data Fabric
M&A#160
May 27, 2025
Salesforce announces $8B acquisition of Informatica
M&A#60
Jun 23, 2025
Google donates A2A to the Linux Foundation
Standard#5
Jun 25, 2025
Gartner: >40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027
Analyst#2
Jul 31, 2025
Acceldata Agentic Data Management GA (xLake + 10+ agents)
Product#121
Sep 2025
EvoluteIQ raises $53M led by Baird Capital
Capital#10
Sep 2025
Astrix publishes State of MCP Server Security (88% creds / 53% static / 8.5% OAuth)
Analyst#4
Sep 8, 2025
Databricks Series K at $100B
Capital#20
Oct 13, 2025
Fivetran + dbt Labs all-stock merger ANNOUNCED
M&A#70
Oct 2025
Microsoft Ignite - Foundry + Agent 365 + Copilot Studio MCP GA
Product#50
Nov 6, 2025
Ataccama ONE Agentic GA (DQ+MDM+governance+catalog)
Product#134
Nov 24, 2025
Snowflake acquires Select Star (cross-platform lineage)
M&A#31
Nov 2025
Gartner revives the Metadata Management MQ after a 5-year pause; Atlan a first-time Leader
Analyst#6
Dec 3, 2025
Snowflake-Anthropic $200M multi-year deal
Capital#32
Dec 10, 2025
Bigeye AI Guardian (runtime DQ enforcement) GA
Product#123
Dec 16, 2025
Databricks announces >$4B Series L at $134B; Alteryx AiDIN Copilot GA
Capital#20
Dec 2025
MCP donated to a Linux Foundation Agentic AI effort
Standard#3
Feb 2, 2026
Snowflake-OpenAI $200M multi-year deal
Capital#32
Apr 2026
dbt benchmark update - semantic layer 98-100% vs text-to-SQL 84-90%
Analyst#71
Apr 2026
Collibra Spring '26 - moves to enforcement, not just documentation (no first-party MCP yet)
Product#113
Jun 1, 2026
Fivetran + dbt Labs merger COMPLETES - 100k+ data teams
M&A#70