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Alation

Other B2B Software · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2012

Offers a platform that makes data more accessible to individuals across an organization

Investors

21 investors on Alation's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Series B+ 16 investors entered at this stage
Databricks
ISAI Gestion
Salesforce Ventures
Thoma Bravo
Icon Ventures
NTT DOCOMO Ventures
Sapphire Ventures
Queensland Investment Corporation
Salesforce
HP Enterprise
Sanabil
Snowflake Ventures
Riverwood Capital
Harmony Partners
Union Grove Venture Partners
Dell Technologies Capital

Ownership

Who owns Alation

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

23% Founders
  • Costanoa Ventures 13.5%

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where Alation has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
15 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States52.4%
🇮🇳 India29.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.9%
🇦🇺 Australia4.3%
🇨🇱 Chile3.2%
Top 5 of 15 shown
Web traffic by country
75K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States21.5%
🇮🇳 India12.3%
🇨🇦 Canada6.3%
🇦🇺 Australia4.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Alation's talent

Dealroom maps Alation's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

11 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
6 AI specialistsincl. 3 core researchers
600 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$3M patent portfolio · 6 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$3M
0.17% of valuation · 47.7× smaller than top peer Tableau ($137M)
6 active patent families
Where Alation innovates Analysis DatasetData libraryData queryMetadataNatural language

Where Alation concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Alation and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Alation

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Alation on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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