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Alation
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
- 501-1000 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Big data
- Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
4% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
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Benefits
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
Company values
- Move the ball - We take small steps in the present to make it to the future we’re seeking
- Build for the long term - We plan to fulfill a bold, ambitious mission over decades to come
- Listen like you're wrong - Data and insight are most valuable when they surprise us and prove us wrong
- Measure through customer impact - We measure ourselves by the impact we achieve, not the benefits we receive
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
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Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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