Alation: Company Profile & Valuation

Alation makes the Alation Data Catalog, letting employees search enterprise data in plain language, and has since built it into what it calls the Alation Intelligence Operating System for governing AI agents and data products. Customers such as AbbVie, Cisco, Pfizer, Munich Re and Daimler Truck use the platform to organize their metadata and connect it to tools like Snowflake, Tableau and Databricks.

Satyen Sangani, Aaron Kalb, Feng Niu and Venky Ganti founded Alation in 2012 in Silicon Valley, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in September 2022. It has since acquired Lyngo Analytics and Numbers Station AI to add natural-language querying and agentic data workflows.

Listed funds carry late-stage private names. A fund's latest schedule of investments shows whether it holds Alation.

Often trade at a premium or discount to NAV.

Platforms match existing holders with buyers. Alation availability at any moment is set by the holders.

High minimums, transfer approval, company right-of-first-refusal.

Valuations, rounds and IPO status for every company in the directory — Alation included.

The last valuation is $1.7B.

Lead investors for each round are in the funding timeline.

The closest computer software (enterprise data catalog) peers are on the competitors page.

The routes section explains what is realistically available for a company at this stage.