# Cyber Company Profiles: Alation

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## At a Glance

- Website: [alation.com](https://www.alation.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/alation
- Type: Security for AI
- Market readiness: Established (28/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2012
- Funding: $340M total
- Last updated: 2026-09-11

## Executive Summary

Alation sells a data intelligence platform to enterprises. It catalogs a company's data through more than 120 connectors and manages lineage, quality, and governance. Its Chat with Your Data and Agent Studio products provide AI agents that answer questions about structured data. Founded in 2012, Alation has more than 600 enterprise customers, including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung. It had raised $340 million by November 2022, when Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures led its $123 million Series E. It reported more than $100 million in recurring revenue at the time. Its connectors and built-in governance workflows could add effort to switching away from it. Databricks, a partner that invested through Databricks Ventures, could become a rival to Alation's catalog.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Data intelligence platform with AI governance that inventories AI models, agents, and tools, traces their data lineage, and curates trusted, compliant data for AI development. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2012 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Redwood City, California, United States | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $340M total | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series E, $123M, November 2022 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alation | Data intelligence platform with AI governance that inventories AI models, agents, and tools, traces their data lineage, and curates trusted, compliant data for AI development. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Model |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| Training Data |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |

Alation is a data intelligence platform that inventories AI models, agents, and tools, traces their data lineage, and curates trusted, compliant data for AI development. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (28/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-08. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | The buyer, the data, governance, and analytics teams, is clear, and TechTarget independently frames the agentic-data-governance gap as a category-wide race. The pain stays qualitative rather than independently quantified, so problem clarity is present but unproven. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | Alation documents catalog, governance, lineage, and quality as converging modules with 120-plus connectors and shipped Chat with Your Data and an agent platform in 2025, SiliconANGLE covered the agent architecture at launch, and the Gartner Leader placement is the external validation point. That documented depth plus the analyst placement supports a strong score, short of the top level that the highest Wave ratings would require. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Gartner evaluated 12 vendors in its 2025 Metadata Management Magic Quadrant and quotes Gartner forecasting active metadata adoption rising more than 75 percent by 2027, two analyst category signals behind the score. The enabler is enterprise AI demand that surged after ChatGPT's late-2022 launch, which needs governed data first, while TechTarget shows rivals Informatica and Boomi adding the same capability as supplier momentum. These match BigID's analyst-evaluation-based 4. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani started Alation in 2012 and still leads it, and the 2025 Numbers Station purchase adds an applied-AI team that brought early data-wrangling research. That is senior pedigree and long tenure, the verifiable-experience level. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | TechCrunch independently names enterprise customers including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung, TechCrunch and GeekWire both repeat the 600-plus count Alation discloses, and Gartner named Alation a Leader for the fifth time, so traction is multiple-named-customer strong. It stays at 4 rather than 5 because the scale and analyst figures trace to the company's own disclosures rather than independently derived data, the ranking gap that lifted BigID to 5. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | Alation has raised more than 300 million dollars and its only output figure, about 100 million dollars in recurring revenue, is vendor-disclosed and dated to 2022, so output per dollar is visible with steady 2025 shipping but unconfirmed, the honest default at 3 level with BigID. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Gartner evaluated 12 vendors and placed Alation in the Leaders quadrant of its 2025 Metadata Management Magic Quadrant, so buyers and analysts place it without vendor coaching. Fitting an established, analyst-tracked category that Alation does not singularly define fits 4 rather than 5. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Deep connector integrations and embedded governance workflows raise switching effort above the pure-play startups, and Alation reports more than 600 enterprise customers, but a data platform that holds the data could extend a native catalog, and Databricks Ventures invested in Alation while Databricks builds its own, a potential substitution path. That keeps it at 3 with BigID. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Data platforms Alation integrates with, such as Databricks with its own catalog, could extend native catalog and governance and erode the cross-platform neutrality Alation sells.
- The structured-data agents rest on the small 2025 Numbers Station acquisition and freshly shipped products, so public references stay limited more than a year after the deal and months after the 2025 launches, leaving adoption by catalog buyers unproven.
- Databricks holds both a strategic investment in Alation and its own catalog, so the partnership could shift toward substitution as Databricks expands governance.
- Numbers Station had only ten customers and a research team at acquisition, so the acquired technology could take time to harden into a referenceable product line at enterprise scale.

### Problem & Market

Alation sells to enterprises that cannot find or trust data spread across warehouses and BI tools. The buyer is the data, governance, and analytics teams who need one place to see definitions, lineage, policies, usage, and trust signals before they run analytics or feed AI.

The pain now extends to AI readiness. Alation positions a governed catalog as the prerequisite for trustworthy AI, and its 2025 Gartner placement quotes Gartner forecasting that organizations adopting active metadata practices will rise more than 75 percent by 2027 across data, analytics, and AI. Buyers who want copilots and agents to answer reliably first need governed, traceable data underneath.

Independent coverage shows the problem is industry-wide rather than vendor-asserted. TechTarget reports that data-management vendors including Informatica and Boomi are racing to add the same agentic capabilities, a supplier race across the category that Alation is contesting with its own agents on enterprise data. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Alation ships cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality as modules of one platform, kept current by active metadata and more than 120 connectors. For AI work it catalogs AI and ML assets including datasets, notebooks, and vector databases so stakeholders and auditors can trace what fed a model.

Two newer products carry the AI pitch. Chat with Your Data, introduced in August 2025, lets users query enterprise data in plain language while metadata-aware agents handle the SQL and cite sources, which Alation says improves accuracy by up to 60 percent over standalone tools. In October 2025 Alation launched Agent Studio, which SiliconANGLE covered at launch as Agent Builder, a platform for building production agents that act on structured data, part of the agentic push the Numbers Station acquisition accelerated.

Outside validation covers position more than feature depth. Gartner placed Alation among the Leaders on completeness of vision and ability to execute, and SiliconANGLE covered the agent architecture, the no-code builder, and Model Context Protocol and REST embedding at launch, independent reporting of what shipped rather than a performance test of the 2025 agents. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Alation contests the metadata management and data catalog category against named peers. Gartner's 2025 Metadata Management Magic Quadrant evaluated 12 vendors and placed Alation in the Leaders quadrant alongside others, so analysts and buyers locate the company without vendor coaching.

The harder contest is with the platform underneath. Databricks took a strategic investment in Alation through Databricks Ventures and builds its own catalog and governance, so the same partner is an investor and a potential substitute. A data platform that holds the data could extend native governance and challenge the neutral cross-cloud layer Alation sells.

Alation accelerated its structured-data agents by purchase. It unveiled its Agentic Platform in March 2025 and then bought Numbers Station, a ten-customer research startup that had raised 17.5 million dollars, to add agents that reason over structured data, a build-versus-buy choice TechTarget reports Alation made for speed and talent. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Alation reached enterprise scale on its catalog business. TechCrunch reports the company works with more than 600 enterprise customers including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung, and Alation disclosed surpassing 100 million dollars in recurring revenue across nearly 450 customers in its 2022 Series E.

Independent press names the customers. TechCrunch names Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung among them, TechCrunch and GeekWire both repeat the 600-plus count Alation discloses, and Gartner named Alation a Leader for the fifth time in 2025.

The agentic go-to-market is unproven. Jones Lang LaSalle is the structured-data-agent reference named in the public record, so the proof that catalog buyers adopt and pay for the agents stays thin within a year of Chat with Your Data shipping in August 2025 and Agent Studio in October 2025. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Alation's founders bring a long tenure in the category. Co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani started the company in 2012 and still leads it more than a decade later, a rare run of stable founder leadership in enterprise software.

The 2025 acquisition adds research pedigree. Numbers Station was founded by a team including Ines Chami and Chris Ré, who co-authored early work showing foundation models can perform data cleaning and integration, and Alation acquired that team and its technology to strengthen its structured-data reasoning.

The record reads as firmly competent in the domain. The leadership has sustained one independent company for more than a decade and is now extending it into agent-native products, with senior in-domain pedigree shown across that run in product and analyst recognition. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Alation positions governance and auditability as core to the product rather than an add-on. The platform centralizes policies and enforces access, masking, and approvals, and its natural-language answers expose sources, lineage, policies, and usage so decisions can be defended to an auditor.

The compliance posture is solid but standard. Alation's security page lists SOC 2 Type II with a HIPAA and HITECH attestation and ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, and it is pursuing a FedRAMP Moderate authorization it does not yet hold. These are commercial attestations a funded rival can also obtain rather than a mandate that requires Alation.

Public evidence covers the marketed capability and analyst recognition for the catalog, while the 2025 agentic features remain lightly referenced. JLL is the customer the public record names running the structured-data agents, so broad independent results for the agent products are limited. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Collibra | competes with | Data catalog and governance vendor contesting the same enterprise buyer. |
| Informatica | competes with | Metadata management and data catalog vendor contesting the same enterprise data buyer. |
| Atlan | competes with | Active-metadata catalog vendor in the same metadata management category. |
| Databricks | adjacent | Data cloud that took a strategic investment in Alation and builds its own native catalog and governance. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-09-11. Scope: whole company.

Alation, founded in 2012, sells catalog software to more than 600 enterprises, including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung. It had raised $340 million by November 2022, including a $123 million Series E led by Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures. The catalog covers data lineage, governance, and quality, and Alation keeps it current through more than 120 connectors. Its connector integrations and built-in governance workflows could add to the effort of switching away from it. Databricks, a partner and investor through Databricks Ventures, could become a substitute for Alation. Alation sells a catalog that works across many platforms, and the vendors of those platforms could cover the same cataloging and governance themselves.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers get governance software, the catalog, lineage, policies, and quality over their data estate, rather than a judgment-and-accountability outcome a buyer cannot reproduce in-house. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | A customer that leaves Alation reabsorbs the curated definitions, lineage, and stewardship it built up in the catalog, real reabsorption friction, but the fetched record shows breadth, connector count, and customer count rather than the entrenched multi-year deployment depth a 3 needs. Whether a data cloud can rebuild the catalog natively is a layer question scored separately. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | Alation lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and a HIPAA and HITECH attestation and is still pursuing FedRAMP Moderate, but these are commercial attestations a determined rival could also clear and no regulation requires Alation. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Keeping a catalog current with active metadata, maintaining 120-plus connectors, enforcing governance policy across the data estate, and getting agents to reason over structured data uniformly at enterprise scale is genuinely hard engineering. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The catalog has sold to more than 600 enterprises including marquee names such as Nasdaq, a sophisticated, well-resourced data-team buyer whose purchases run through enterprise procurement review. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | The catalog is a governance plane the data clouds can add to or build natively rather than being embedded in the model or the compute the AI traffic must pass through. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | The active-metadata and lineage graph Alation accumulates is operational metadata rebuilt per tenant from each customer's own connected estate, not a named non-public cross-customer corpus a rival could not assemble. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Alation sells to the data, governance, and analytics teams at large enterprises that cannot find or trust data spread across warehouses and BI tools. The buyer wants one place to see definitions, lineage, policies, usage, and trust signals before anyone runs analytics or feeds a model.

The segment now extends to AI readiness, the same enterprise data function asked to govern models and agents alongside the warehouses it already governs. Alation catalogs AI and ML assets including datasets, notebooks, and vector databases so stakeholders and auditors can trace what fed a model.

The proven demand centers on the catalog. TechCrunch reports more than 600 enterprise customers including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung, while Jones Lang LaSalle is the structured-data-agent reference the public record names, so the segment Alation has sold to is broad and the agentic slice of it is early. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Alation ships cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality as converging modules of one platform, kept current by active metadata and more than 120 connectors. For AI work it catalogs AI and ML assets including datasets, notebooks, and vector databases so the data feeding a model is governed and traceable.

Two 2025 products carry the AI pitch. Chat with Your Data, introduced in August, lets users query data in plain language while metadata-aware agents handle the SQL and cite sources, which Alation says improves accuracy by up to 60 percent over standalone tools, and Agent Studio, launched in October and covered by SiliconANGLE at launch as Agent Builder, builds production agents on structured data, part of the agentic push the Numbers Station acquisition accelerated.

Outside validation covers position more than feature depth. Gartner placed Alation among the Leaders on completeness of vision and ability to execute, and SiliconANGLE covered the agent architecture, the no-code builder, and Model Context Protocol and REST embedding at launch, independent reporting of what shipped rather than a performance test of the 2025 agents. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Alation reached enterprise scale on its catalog and is extending the same motion to agents. It disclosed surpassing 100 million dollars in recurring revenue across nearly 450 customers in its 2022 Series E, and TechCrunch reports the base has since grown past 600 enterprises.

Independent press names the customers. TechCrunch names Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung, TechCrunch and GeekWire both repeat the 600-plus count Alation discloses, and Gartner named Alation a Leader for the fifth time in 2025, which helps Alation reach buyers who shortlist from the Magic Quadrant.

The agentic go-to-market is unproven. Jones Lang LaSalle is the structured-data-agent customer the public record names, so the proof that catalog buyers adopt and pay for the agents is thin within a year of the products shipping in 2025. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Alation's product pages show no rate card and route buyers to a demo, which points to negotiated enterprise deals rather than self-serve adoption, the pattern for software sold to large data functions through procurement.

The packaging suggests the catalog is the core product with governance, quality, and the agentic products layered on top. Public materials do not state the billing unit, so whether Alation prices by users, by connected sources, or by tier is not established from the evidence.

Hidden pricing fits the enterprise buyer but offers little signal on how Alation meters the agents. Charging for agents differently from catalog seats would show whether Alation treats the agents as a new value unit or an upsell, and the public record does not yet show which. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Alation connects to a customer's existing data estate through more than 120 connectors and keeps the catalog current with active metadata. It connects to warehouses and BI tools through those connectors rather than centralizing the data, which lowers the barrier to adopting a governance layer.

Governance runs as live enforcement, not documentation. Alation enforces access and approvals and ties policies to lineage and quality so the controls operate where data is used.

The connector breadth is both the operational asset and the dependency. Each connector integrates a third-party system Alation does not control, so the same breadth that spans clouds is third-party compatibility and upkeep exposure a data platform building a native catalog does not carry for its own surface. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Alation positions governance and auditability as core to the product. It centralizes policies and enforces access, masking, and approvals, and its natural-language answers expose sources, lineage, and usage so a decision can be defended to an auditor.

The assurance posture is solid but standard. The security page lists SOC 2 Type II with a HIPAA and HITECH attestation and ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications, and it is pursuing a FedRAMP Moderate authorization it does not yet hold. These are attestations a funded rival can also obtain rather than a mandated control.

The marketed trust story is mature for the catalog and lightly referenced for the agents. JLL is the customer the public record names running the structured-data agents, so independent results for the 2025 agentic features remain limited. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Alation sits on top of the data clouds it catalogs, which makes the platform relationship both its reach and its exposure. The catalog spans warehouses and BI tools through more than 120 connectors, the cross-cloud neutrality enterprises buy when no single platform holds all their data.

The Databricks relationship shows the tension. Databricks took a strategic investment in Alation through Databricks Ventures and also builds its own native catalog, so the same partner is an investor and a potential substitute.

Alation's ecosystem position rests on staying the neutral layer the data platforms each would rather own. That neutrality is real value to a multi-cloud enterprise, and it holds only while the platforms underneath do not make their native catalogs good enough to displace a separate one. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Alation's founders bring a long tenure in the category. Co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani started the company in 2012 and still leads it, a rare run of stable founder leadership in enterprise software.

The 2025 acquisition adds research pedigree. Numbers Station was founded by a team including Ines Chami and Chris Ré, who co-authored early work showing foundation models can perform data cleaning and integration, and Alation acquired that team and its technology to strengthen its structured-data reasoning. The startup had ten customers at acquisition and had raised 17.5 million dollars.

The record reads as firmly committed in the domain. The leadership has sustained one independent company for more than a decade and is now extending it into agent-native products, with senior in-domain pedigree shown across that run. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Alation AI Governance](https://www.alation.com/solutions/artificial-intelligence/) | official | 2026-06-09 |
| f2 | [TechCrunch: Alation acquires Numbers Station (Rebecca Szkutak, 2025-05-20)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/alation-acquires-numbers-station-to-bolster-its-ai-agent-offerings/) | press | 2026-06-27 |
| f3 | [Alation Raises $123M Series E (GlobeNewswire, 2022-11-02)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/11/02/2546569/0/en/Alation-Raises-123M-Series-E-to-Meet-Surging-Global-Demand-for-Data-Intelligence-Platforms.html) | press | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/alation/) | other | 2026-06-09 |
| f5 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/alation/) | other | 2026-06-23 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Alation Agentic Data Intelligence Platform](https://www.alation.com) “With the Alation Agentic Data Intelligence Platform, you get one powerful hub where cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality converge.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [Alation AI Governance](https://www.alation.com/solutions/artificial-intelligence/) “Provide AI Traceability to stakeholders and auditors by cataloging AI/ML assets, including datasets, notebooks, and vector databases.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [Alation Security Updates (compliance and certifications)](https://www.alation.com/legal/security/) “FedRAMP Moderate: Alation continues to pursue full authorization with updates provided upon request. ISO 27001:2013 ... SOC 2 Type II.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Alation Raises $123M Series E (GlobeNewswire, 2022-11-02)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/11/02/2546569/0/en/Alation-Raises-123M-Series-E-to-Meet-Surging-Global-Demand-for-Data-Intelligence-Platforms.html) “By serving nearly 450 enterprise customers and generating $100+ million in ARR ... The new strategic investment from Databricks Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [Alation Named a Leader 5x in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management (GlobeNewswire, 2025-11-21)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/11/21/3192909/0/en/Alation-Named-as-a-Leader-5x-in-the-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Metadata-Management-Solutions.html) “In August, Alation introduced Chat with Your Data ... in October, the company launched Alation Agent Studio ... Customers such as Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) ... use Alation to query structured lease and property data.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [TechTarget: Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition (Eric Avidon, 2025-05-20)](https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/366624026/Alation-boosts-agentic-AI-with-Numbers-Station-acquisition) “Before its acquisition by Alation, the vendor raised $17.5 million in venture capital funding. ... In addition to Alation, Informatica and Boomi have expanded their AI development environments to add agentic development capabilities.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [SiliconANGLE: Alation launches Agent Builder for structured-data agents (Duncan Riley, 2025-10-01)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/01/alation-launches-agent-builder-bring-enterprise-grade-ai-agents-structured-data/) “Data intelligence company Alation Inc. today announced the launch of [its agent platform] ... announced at the company's annual revAlation user conference ... metadata-aware, configurable AI agents for structured data.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [SiliconANGLE: Alation debuts Chat with Your Data (Duncan Riley, 2025-08-19)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/19/alation-debuts-chat-data-simplify-enterprise-access-structured-insights/) “Alation's metadata-aware agents use business definitions, context and lineage to reason through each response, unlike standalone solutions, with the result improving accuracy by up to 60%.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s9 | [GeekWire: Alation acquires Numbers Station, an AI startup backed by Madrona (Taylor Soper, 2025-05-20)](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/alation-acquires-numbers-station-an-ai-data-analysis-startup-backed-by-madrona/) “The company helps more than 600 enterprise customers ... Numbers Station has 10 customers. ... Aberger co-founded the company with Ines Chami, Sen Wu, and Chris Ré.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s10 | [TechCrunch: Alation acquires Numbers Station (Rebecca Szkutak, 2025-05-20)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/alation-acquires-numbers-station-to-bolster-its-ai-agent-offerings/) “Alation was founded in 2012 and currently works with more than 600 enterprise customers, including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung ... raised more than $300 million in venture funding from firms including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sapphire Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s11 | [UK Companies House: ALATION UK LTD (company 11324302)](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11324302) “ALATION UK LTD Company number 11324302 ... Company status Active ... Company type Private limited Company ... Incorporated on 23 April 2018 ... 63110 - Data processing, hosting and related activities.” | regulatory | 2026-06-27 |
| s12 | [Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? (Narayan, Chami, Orr, Arora, Re, arXiv preprint 2022)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09911) “We find that large FMs generalize and achieve SoTA performance on data cleaning and integration tasks, even though they are not trained for these data tasks.” | research | 2026-06-27 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Alation Agentic Data Intelligence Platform](https://www.alation.com) “With the Alation Agentic Data Intelligence Platform, you get one powerful hub where cataloging, governance, lineage, and quality converge. ... kept current by active metadata and 120+ connectors.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s2 | [Alation AI Governance](https://www.alation.com/solutions/artificial-intelligence/) “Provide AI Traceability to stakeholders and auditors by cataloging AI/ML assets, including datasets, notebooks, and vector databases.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s3 | [Alation Security Updates (compliance and certifications)](https://www.alation.com/legal/security/) “FedRAMP Moderate: Alation continues to pursue full authorization with updates provided upon request. ISO 27001:2013 ... ISO 27701:2019 ... SOC 2 Type II.” | official | 2026-06-27 |
| s4 | [Alation Raises $123M Series E (GlobeNewswire, 2022-11-02)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/11/02/2546569/0/en/Alation-Raises-123M-Series-E-to-Meet-Surging-Global-Demand-for-Data-Intelligence-Platforms.html) “By serving nearly 450 enterprise customers and generating $100+ million in ARR ... The new strategic investment from Databricks Ventures will significantly expand the partnership.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s5 | [Alation Named a Leader 5x in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management (GlobeNewswire, 2025-11-21)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/11/21/3192909/0/en/Alation-Named-as-a-Leader-5x-in-the-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Metadata-Management-Solutions.html) “In August, Alation introduced Chat with Your Data ... in October, the company launched Alation Agent Studio ... Customers such as Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) ... use Alation to query structured lease and property data.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s6 | [TechTarget: Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition (Eric Avidon, 2025-05-20)](https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/366624026/Alation-boosts-agentic-AI-with-Numbers-Station-acquisition) “Numbers Station is a 2021 startup based in Austin, Texas ... Before its acquisition by Alation, the vendor raised $17.5 million in venture capital funding. ... Buying capabilities is faster than building them.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s7 | [SiliconANGLE: Alation launches Agent Builder for structured-data agents (Duncan Riley, 2025-10-01)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/01/alation-launches-agent-builder-bring-enterprise-grade-ai-agents-structured-data/) “announced at the company's annual revAlation user conference ... metadata-aware, configurable AI agents for structured data that have dramatically higher levels of accuracy.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s8 | [SiliconANGLE: Alation debuts Chat with Your Data (Duncan Riley, 2025-08-19)](https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/19/alation-debuts-chat-data-simplify-enterprise-access-structured-insights/) “Alation's metadata-aware agents use business definitions, context and lineage to reason through each response, unlike standalone solutions, with the result improving accuracy by up to 60%.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s9 | [GeekWire: Alation acquires Numbers Station, an AI startup backed by Madrona (Taylor Soper, 2025-05-20)](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/alation-acquires-numbers-station-an-ai-data-analysis-startup-backed-by-madrona/) “Other backers include Norwest Venture Partners; Factory; former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson; Cloudera co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher; and Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan. ... Numbers Station has 10 customers. ... Aberger co-founded the company with Ines Chami, Sen Wu, and Chris Ré.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s10 | [TechCrunch: Alation acquires Numbers Station (Rebecca Szkutak, 2025-05-20)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/alation-acquires-numbers-station-to-bolster-its-ai-agent-offerings/) “Alation was founded in 2012 and currently works with more than 600 enterprise customers, including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung ... raised more than $300 million in venture funding from firms including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sapphire Ventures.” | press | 2026-06-27 |
| s11 | [UK Companies House: ALATION UK LTD (company 11324302)](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11324302) “ALATION UK LTD Company number 11324302 ... Company status Active ... Company type Private limited Company ... Incorporated on 23 April 2018 ... 63110 - Data processing, hosting and related activities.” | regulatory | 2026-06-27 |
| s12 | [Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? (Narayan, Chami, Orr, Arora, Re, arXiv preprint 2022)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09911) “We find that large FMs generalize and achieve SoTA performance on data cleaning and integration tasks, even though they are not trained for these data tasks.” | research | 2026-06-27 |

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