Alation
Alation positions itself as an AI intelligence operating system and long-standing data catalog and governance platform that helps enterprises keep data, context, and AI outputs trusted. The emphasis is on governed, answerable data for analytics and AI rather than consulting-led implementation.
Company profile
Overview
Alation sells an enterprise data catalog and data governance platform for organizations that need trusted data and AI outcomes.
Alation provides an enterprise platform for data cataloging, metadata management, data governance, and AI governance. It is designed to help business and technical teams find, trust, govern, and use data for analytics and AI-driven decisions. The company primarily sells software delivered as a cloud service, with enterprise sales and customer conversations for pricing and packaging.
At a glance
Key facts
- Founded
- 2012
- Company type
- Private
- Employee range
- 501-1000Company size 501-1,000 employees on LinkedIn; 573 employees shown on LinkedIn profile access as of this run
- HQ location
- Redwood City, California, USA
- Full HQ address
- 3 Lagoon Dr, Suite #300, Redwood City, CA 94065, USA
- Pricing model
- Custom QuoteEnterprise sales with contact-based pricing; the public site routes prospects to speak with sales rather than publishing standard tiers or prices.
Business context
Financials
- Investments
- Founded in 2012 as a private company; current public sources reviewed in this run did not provide a reliable recent funding round, acquisition, or valuation disclosure sufficient to state more.
Market context
Relationships
- Target customers
- Large enterprises and data/AI leaders in regulated or data-intensive organizations, especially teams responsible for governance, metadata, analytics, and AI readiness.
- Key competitors
- Collibra, Informatica, Atlan, DataHub, Microsoft Purview
- Known customers
- Georgia-Pacific, Ciena, CNA Insurance, Brambles, Lipton Teas and Infusions, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Marks & Spencer, TPG Telecom, OceanaGold, CHOP
Source context
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- Enterprise data catalog, metadata management, data governance, and AI governance
- Core category
- Data governance and data catalog software
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Market taxonomy