Atlan

About Atlan

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Atlan

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

AtlanAI Data Tools

Governed metadata infrastructure that gives AI systems enterprise context

Free7.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Atlan

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Atlan's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.7 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Atlan competes with, and how they differ.

Collibra8.0/10

Collibra sells top-down governance to large regulated enterprises: a policy, stewardship and workflow suite with long implementation cycles and seat-heavy enterprise licensing. Atlan attacks the same governance budget from the opposite end, leading with automated metadata and column-level lineage across the cloud stack and positioning itself as a context layer for AI agents rather than a compliance system of record.

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Alation

Alation is the other pure-play data catalog vendor Atlan most often meets in head-to-head evaluations, built on search-and-discovery for analysts with a large hybrid and on-premise install base. Atlan is cloud-native and API-first, and sells on programmatic metadata activation across Snowflake, Databricks and dbt rather than on catalog browsing.

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Informatica7.4/10

Informatica bundles cataloging and governance (CDGC, driven by its CLAIRE engine) inside a far broader data integration, MDM and quality suite, and sells to enterprises consolidating on a single vendor. Atlan is a standalone metadata layer that assumes a best-of-breed modern stack and competes on connector breadth and time-to-value instead of owning the pipeline.

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Ataccama7.1/10

Ataccama ONE leads with data quality and MDM for regulated industries and layers cataloging on top; Atlan leads with metadata and context and layers quality on top, which puts the two in the same Gartner governance and metadata evaluations. The relationship is partly complementary: since October 2025 Atlan has run Ataccama's data quality engine behind its own context layer.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in Atlan's history, with sources.

1. Mar 9, 2026Partnership

   BigID partnership for unified structured and unstructured cataloging

   Atlan and BigID announced a joint offering that pairs BigID's unstructured-data discovery and classification with Atlan's catalog, so governance policies span warehouse tables and document stores in one inventory.

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2. Jan 6, 2026Milestone

   Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance Platforms

   Atlan was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, moving up from the Visionary placement it held in the 2025 edition of the same report.

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3. Nov 3, 2025Milestone

   Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions

   Gartner placed Atlan in the Leaders quadrant of its 2025 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, one of 15 vendors evaluated. Atlan also held the Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice badge for the category.

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4. Oct 15, 2025Partnership

   Ataccama data quality engine embedded in Atlan

   Atlan and Ataccama announced that Ataccama's data quality engine now runs behind Atlan's context layer, giving Atlan customers profiling and rule execution without deploying a separate data quality platform.

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5. Aug 12, 2025Launch

   App Framework launched with 21 partners

   Atlan released an App Framework letting partners and customers build applications on top of its metadata store, launching with 21 partners so context can be shared across tools rather than locked in the catalog.

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6. Jun 3, 2025Launch

   Data Quality Studio for Snowflake

   Atlan launched Data Quality Studio for Snowflake, adding rule authoring, monitoring and alerting on top of its catalog so quality signals surface alongside lineage and governance metadata.

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7. May 8, 2024Funding

   Series C — $105M at a $750M valuation led by GIC and Meritech

   GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and Meritech Capital led a $105M Series C at a $750M post-money valuation, with Salesforce Ventures, Peak XV, Insight Partners and WaterBridge Ventures participating. The round brought total funding to more than $206M; Atlan cited revenue up 7x over two years, 400% enterprise sales growth in Q1 2024 and a 75% competitive win rate.

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8. May 16, 2023Launch

   Atlan AI launched — first AI agent for data context

   Atlan unveiled Atlan AI, an assistant built with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that generates descriptions and READMEs for data assets from their SQL logic. The company later reported the feature produced 290,000 descriptions in its first year at a 90% acceptance rate.

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9. Mar 9, 2022Funding

   Series B — $50M at a $450M valuation

   Atlan raised $50M in a Series B co-led by Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Sequoia Capital India at a $450M valuation, taking total funding to roughly $66M. The company reported 10x year-over-year growth in both installed base and annual recurring revenue and a headcount above 100.

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10. May 25, 2021Funding

    Series A — $16M led by Insight Partners

    Insight Partners led a $16M Series A, joined by Sequoia Surge, WaterBridge Ventures and angels including former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia, Stitch founders Bob Moore and Jake Stein, and Notion co-founder Akshay Kothari. Atlan reported 16x growth over the prior two quarters with customers including Unilever, Postman and Scripps Health.

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11. 2020Launch

    Atlan launches publicly as the context layer for data

    After building internal data tooling for projects with the UN, the Gates Foundation and the Government of India, the team launched Atlan publicly as a shared context layer for data teams. The company states this launch year in its own founding story.

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12. Jul 1, 2019Funding

    Pre-Series A — $2.5M led by WaterBridge Ventures

    Atlan came out of stealth with $2.5M in pre-Series A funding led by WaterBridge Ventures, with Ratan Tata, Rajan Anandan and 500 Startups participating. Founders Prukalpa Sankar and Varun Banka built the product from internal tooling created at their earlier data-for-good startup SocialCops; the Singapore-headquartered company reported 200+ customers across 50 countries and about 80 employees.

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