# Satyen Sangani (slim)

> Satyen Sangani is co-founder and CEO of Alation. Alation on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and CEO, Alation.

Satyen Sangani co-founded Alation in 2012 and leads it as CEO.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssangani/

## What Satyen builds

- [Alation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alation.md), graded C, 60.3/100, in 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 and CEO, Alation, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Aaron Kalb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aaron-kalb/), Co-founder, Alation
- [Feng Niu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/feng-niu/), Co-founder, Alation
- [Venky Ganti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/venky-ganti/), Co-founder, Alation

## Backed by

- [Thoma Bravo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thoma-bravo/)
- [Sanabil Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sanabil-investments/)
- [Costanoa Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/costanoa-ventures/)
- [Databricks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/databricks/)
- [Dell Technologies](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dell-technologies/)
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hewlett-packard-enterprise/)
- [Icon Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/icon-ventures/)
- [Queensland Investment Corporation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/queensland-investment-corporation/)
- [Riverwood Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/riverwood-capital/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sapphire-ventures/)
- [Union Grove](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/union-grove/)

## Questions

### Who is Satyen Sangani?

Satyen Sangani co-founded Alation in 2012 and leads it as CEO.

### What does Alation, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Alation from Alation, Inc..

### 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 Satyen'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

- https://www.alation.com/
- https://www.alation.com/legal/support/
- https://www.alation.com/contact/
- https://www.alation.com/about/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alation

These 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.