# Alation

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/alation

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Redwood City, US
- Website: www.alation.com
- Total disclosed funding: $315M
- Latest round: Series E (Nov 2, 2022)
- Investors on record: 19

## About

Founded in 2012 and based in California, US, Alation Inc. operates as a provider of a collaborative data catalog platform that allows business organizations to access a single source of data reference. The company was founded by Aaron Kalb, Feng Niu, Satyen Sangani, and Venky Ganti. In June 2021, the company received USD 110 million in Series D funding from Union Grove Venture Partners, Snowflake Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Sanabil, Salesforce Ventures, Riverwood Capital, Icon Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, and Costanoa Ventures. In addition, in November 2022, Alation raised USD 123 million in Series E funding co-led by returning investors Sanabil Investments, Costanoa Ventures, and new investor Thoma Bravo among others. The series E funding values the company at USD 1.7 billion post-money.

The company offers enterprise data intelligence solutions to capture information and drive business outcomes from self-service data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. The company offers 4 major products: Data Catalog which allows data-driven decision-making and to find, understand, and govern data; Alation connectors to extend connectivity to additional data sources with the open connector framework; Alation platform for supporting a variety of metadata management applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation; Cloud service which allows customers to either manage the data or to get it managed in the cloud.

Alation, Inc. will use the July 2021 funding to meet increasing global demand for its data intelligence platform, which is emerging as the most critical technology investment to enable the modern, data-driven enterprise. Beyond accelerating go-to-market, the financing will also fund innovation in the form of new products and capabilities, furthering the company’s position as the leader in the data intelligence market. In addition, the company continues its expansion into new geographies, verticals, and product areas.

## Funding rounds

- Series E, Nov 2, 2022, $123M — Thoma Bravo, Sapphire Ventures, Icon Ventures, Riverwood Capital, QIC, Costanoa Ventures, Union Grove Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, Dell Technologies Capital, Sanabil Investments, Databricks Ventures
- Series D, Jun 3, 2021, $110M — Sapphire Ventures, Icon Ventures, Riverwood Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Union Grove Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Sanabil Investments
- Series C, Jan 17, 2019, $50M — Sapphire Ventures, Icon Ventures, Harmony Partners, Costanoa Ventures, DCVC, Salesforce Ventures
- Series B, Jul 18, 2017, $23M — Icon Ventures, Harmony Partners, Costanoa Ventures, DCVC, StartX
- Series A, Mar 4, 2015, $9M — General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Costanoa Ventures, DCVC, Bloomberg Beta

## Investors

- General Catalyst Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/general-catalyst-partners) — Series A
- Andreessen Horowitz (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/andreessen-horowitz) — Series A
- Costanoa Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/costanoa-ventures) — Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E
- DCVC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/dcvc) — Series A, Series B, Series C
- Bloomberg Beta (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bloomberg-beta) — Series A
- Icon Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/icon-ventures) — Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E
- Harmony Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/harmony-partners) — Series B, Series C
- StartX — Series B
- Sapphire Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sapphire-ventures) — Series C, Series D, Series E
- Salesforce Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/salesforce-ventures) — Series C, Series D, Series E
- Riverwood Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/riverwood-capital) — Series D, Series E
- Union Grove Venture Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/union-grove-venture-partners) — Series D, Series E
- Dell Technologies Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/dell-technologies-capital) — Series D, Series E
- Snowflake Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/snowflake-ventures) — Series D
- Sanabil Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sanabil-investments) — Series D, Series E
- Thoma Bravo (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/thoma-bravo) — Series E
- QIC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/qic) — Series E
- Hewlett Packard Pathfinder (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hewlett-packard-pathfinder) — Series E
- Databricks Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/databricks-ventures) — Series E