Founder of a listed tool
Feng Niu
Co-founder, Alation, named behind the Alation listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Feng builds
Alation C · Company knowledge & 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 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Aaron Kalb Co-founder, Alation
- Satyen Sangani Co-founder and CEO, Alation
- Venky Ganti Co-founder, Alation
Backed by
Thoma Bravo Sanabil Investments Costanoa Ventures Databricks Dell Technologies Hewlett Packard Enterprise Icon Ventures Queensland Investment Corporation Riverwood Capital Salesforce Sapphire Ventures Union Grove
Questions
Who is Feng Niu?
Feng Niu co-founded Alation in 2012. A database and machine learning researcher, he met the problem of finding and trusting data in his work at Google and in academic research.
What does Alation, Inc. make?
Anchor 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.
Who has invested in Alation, Inc.?
The 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.
How are Feng's tools graded?
Alation is graded C, 60.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (5)
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