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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Alation.\n\nAaron Kalb co-founded Alation in 2012, joining as a designer and linguist from Apple's Siri team. Wikipedia lists him as the company's Chief Data and Analytics Officer.\n\n## What Aaron builds\n\n- [Alation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md), graded C, 60.3/100, in Company knowledge \u0026 data catalogues. Alation is a hosted data catalogue for tables, queries, BI reports, lineage and data quality. Agents reach it through REST APIs, a natural-language Aggregated Context API, a Python agent SDK and an MCP server on each cloud instance. Co-founder, Alation, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Feng Niu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/feng-niu/), Co-founder, Alation\n- [Satyen Sangani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/satyen-sangani/), Co-founder and CEO, Alation\n- [Venky Ganti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/venky-ganti/), Co-founder, Alation\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Thoma Bravo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thoma-bravo/)\n- [Sanabil Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sanabil-investments/)\n- [Costanoa Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/costanoa-ventures/)\n- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)\n- [Dell Technologies](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dell-technologies/)\n- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hewlett-packard-enterprise/)\n- [Icon Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/icon-ventures/)\n- [Queensland Investment Corporation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/queensland-investment-corporation/)\n- [Riverwood Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/riverwood-capital/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)\n- [Union Grove](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/union-grove/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Aaron Kalb?\n\nAaron Kalb co-founded Alation in 2012, joining as a designer and linguist from Apple's Siri team. Wikipedia lists him as the company's Chief Data and Analytics Officer.\n\n### What does Alation, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Alation from Alation, Inc.. Alation is a hosted data catalogue for tables, queries, BI reports, lineage and data quality. Agents reach it through REST APIs, a natural-language Aggregated Context API, a Python agent SDK and an MCP server on each cloud instance.\n\n### Who has invested in Alation, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, Costanoa Ventures, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Icon Ventures, Queensland Investment Corporation, Riverwood Capital, Salesforce, Sapphire Ventures and Union Grove.\n\n### How are Aaron's tools graded?\n\nAlation is graded C, 60.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.alation.com/\n- https://www.alation.com/legal/support/\n- https://www.alation.com/contact/\n- https://www.alation.com/about/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alation\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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