Alation

Alation is credited with pioneering the data catalog product category with its signature software, the Alation Data Catalog, which helps enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data.Alation was founded in 2012 by co-founders, Satyen Sangani and Aaron Kalb, and launched its first product in 2015 to give data consumers an easy way to search for enterprise data with natural language. The company recently reported it passed the $100M annual recurring revenue ARR mark.Alation used this pitch deck to raise a $123 million Series E round at $1.7B valuation led by Thoma Bravo, joined by strategic investor Databricks, as well as Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures. Salesforce Ventures, Dell, and Sapphire Ventures were earlier investors in the company.