Alation, Inc.

Alation, Inc. is an enterprise software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It pioneered the data catalog market and now focuses on data management through its agentic data intelligence platform, which serves as a knowledge layer helping enterprises find, understand and trust their data. The company operates worldwide and serves a customer base that spans industries including financial services, data and analytics, and cloud and data transformation.

Its product portfolio comprises the Agentic Data Intelligence Platform and the Data Catalog. The platform combines artificial intelligence with data governance capabilities, allowing organisations to discover reliable data, inspect data lineage and collaborate, in support of self-service analytics, cloud transformation, governance and AI innovation. The Data Catalog is the product on which the company built its reputation, enabling enterprises to find, understand, trust and govern their data.

Alation reports more than 650 customers worldwide, among them 40% of the Fortune 100. The company is valued at over $1.7 billion and has raised more than $340 million in funding. Technical work at the company covers data cataloging, data management, agentic data intelligence, artificial intelligence, data governance, data lineage, self-service analytics and AI/ML data enablement.

The company describes its purpose as helping enterprises build data culture, with an emphasis on faster and more confident decision-making and on connecting people and data across teams.