# Steve Papa (slim)

> Steve Papa's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Alation, Inc., with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/steve-papa/index.md (~500 tokens) · this version ~380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/steve-papa/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/steve-papa/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-29
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Angel investor.

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Alation, Inc.**, valued at over $1.7B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series E, November 2022
  - [Alation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md), graded C, 60.3/100
  - Source: https://www.alation.com/news-and-press/alation-raises-9m-in-series-a-funding-led-by-costanoa-venture-capital-dcvc/

## Where they invest

- Company knowledge & data catalogues, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Satyen Sangani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/satyen-sangani/), Alation, Inc.
- [Venky Ganti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/venky-ganti/), Alation, Inc.
- [Feng Niu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/feng-niu/), Alation, Inc.
- [Aaron Kalb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaron-kalb/), Alation, Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Steve Papa invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Alation, Inc.

### How are Steve Papa's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Alation (C, 60.3).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.