Alteryx

Alteryx
Alteryx
  • Headquarters

    Irvine, CA
  • Founded

    1997
  • CEO / Founder

    Andy MacMillan
  • Employees

    1001-5000
  • Funding

    Acquired
  • Products

    1 product listed
  • Avg. AI Score

    6.7/10

Profile updated

Products
1
Avg AI Score
6.7/10
Founded
1997
Funding
$163M
About Alteryx

Alteryx is an analytics automation software company founded in 1997 by Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding. The platform provides data preparation, blending, and advanced analytics used by data analysts to automate workflows without coding.

Alteryx serves more than 8,000 enterprise customers across Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, particularly in finance, retail, and consumer packaged goods. The flagship product is Alteryx Designer and the cloud-based Alteryx One.

The company went public on the NYSE in 2017 under ticker AYX. In March 2024, Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners took Alteryx private for approximately $4.4 billion. Andy MacMillan joined as CEO in 2023.

Specialties
Analytics AutomationData PreparationSelf-Service AnalyticsData BlendingWorkflow Automation
Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Valuation
$4.4B
prnewswire.com
Revenue
$970M
prnewswire.com
Total Raisedest.
$163M
techcrunch.com
Revenue over time
$495.3M(Dec 31, 2020)$970M(Dec 31, 2023)
Products by Alteryx

All products by Alteryx reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

How Our Review Panel Scores Alteryx

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Alteryx's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.4 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

The Decision Maker
7.2
The Domain Strategist
7.2
The Domain Practitioner
7.2
The Power User
6.8
The Skeptic
6.2
The Finance Lead
5.8

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Alteryx competes with, and how they differ.

Tableau (Salesforce) logo
Tableau (Salesforce)7.7/10

Tableau built its business on visualization first, later adding Tableau Prep for data cleaning; Alteryx started from the opposite direction, deep drag-and-drop data prep and blending, treating visualization as just one output alongside reporting, ML and RPA.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Databricks logo
Databricks8.4/10

Databricks is a code-first, Spark-based lakehouse platform for large-scale data engineering and ML; Alteryx targets business analysts with a visual workflow builder that needs far less engineering skill to operate.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Dataiku logo
Dataiku7.8/10

Dataiku extends further into collaborative machine learning, MLOps and LLM orchestration for data science teams; Alteryx keeps its center of gravity in self-service data prep, blending and RPA-style workflow automation for business analysts.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
dbt Labs logo
dbt Labs8.4/10

dbt Labs sells SQL-based data transformation for data engineers working inside the warehouse; Alteryx's drag-and-drop canvas targets business analysts who don't write SQL, trading some flexibility for accessibility.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Microsoft (Power BI / Power Query) logo
Microsoft (Power BI / Power Query)7.8/10

Microsoft bundles Power Query data prep into Power BI and the broader Office 365 suite at a much lower incremental cost; Alteryx is a standalone, deeper analytics-automation platform sold on its own ROI rather than bundled into a productivity suite.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Palantir logo
Palantir7.9/10

Palantir sells bespoke, services-heavy data-integration platforms (Foundry/Gotham) mostly to government and large enterprise; Alteryx is a self-serve desktop/cloud product sold at a far lower price point to a broader base of business analysts.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Company Timeline

Key milestones in Alteryx's history, with sources.

  1. Acquisition

    Completes $4.4B sale to Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners, delists from NYSE

    Alteryx completed its take-private sale to Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners for approximately $4.4 billion in cash ($48.25/share) and removed its listing from the NYSE.

    govconwire.com
  2. Acquisition

    Enters definitive agreement to be acquired by Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners for $4.4B

    Alteryx announced a definitive agreement to be taken private by Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners for $4.4 billion, with stockholders to receive $48.25 in cash per share, a 59% premium to the unaffected share price.

    prnewswire.com
  3. Acquisition

    Agrees to acquire Trifacta for $400M

    Alteryx agreed to acquire cloud data-wrangling company Trifacta for $400 million in cash to accelerate its transition to cloud-based analytics.

    techtarget.com
  4. Milestone

    IPO on NYSE under ticker AYX

    Alteryx priced its IPO at $14/share, raising $126 million, and began trading on the NYSE under ticker AYX.

    techcrunch.com
  5. Funding

    Series C — $85M led by ICONIQ Capital and Insight Venture Partners

    Alteryx raised $85 million in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Capital and Insight Venture Partners with Meritech Capital Partners participating, bringing total funding to $163 million.

    techcrunch.com
  6. Funding

    Series B — $60M led by Insight Venture Partners

    Alteryx raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners with SAP Ventures and Toba Capital participating, bringing total funding to $78 million.

    techcrunch.com
  7. Milestone

    SRC, LLC renamed to Alteryx, Inc.

    The company renamed itself from SRC, LLC (Spatial Re-Engineering Consultants) to Alteryx, Inc., adopting the Alteryx product brand as its corporate name.

    alteryx.com
  8. Founded

    Founded as SRC, LLC in Boulder, Colorado

    Dean Stoecker, Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams and Ned Harding founded SRC, LLC, building geographic business intelligence software that combined Census and household data with internal customer records.

    alteryx.com

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