Alation provides a data cataloging platform. It automatically builds a catalog of useful data documentation, covering all of the data sources, and allows users to collaborate and work on the data. It processes enterprise unstructured data by centralizing knowledge into a single place using machine learning and human analysts. The search can be made using keywords in plain English. Enables users to access relevant information (including experts, lineage, keys and indexes, relevant queries) and documentation on all tables, across the organization’s data sources. The clients include PepsiCo, Dow, Fox Networks, BMW and others.

Alation data catalog is an exhaustive solution for metadata storage and data querying.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders

Swiggy is India's largest online food ordering and delivery platform, founded in July 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores

catch, the trusted place where australians start their shopping journey

datacoves is an enterprise dataops platform with managed vscode for dbt development and airflow. we enable you to implement data management best practices without compromising data security.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides easy-to-use management features so you can organize your data and configure finely-tuned access controls to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.

Lyft, Inc. develops, markets, and operates a mobile app, offering vehicles for hire, motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, and food delivery. The company is based in San Francisco, California and operates in 644 cities in the United States and 12 cities in Canada

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards

Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in 2013 in London, England.

Airbnb is the largest short term rental booking website

LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is mainly used for professional networking, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce from 2021. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. 

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service provider

Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook.

Moderna is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It focuses on vaccine technologies based on messenger RNA.

Meta-search platform for vacation rentals

Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Meta acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock

Flixbus is a German brand that offers intercity bus service in Europe and the United States. It is owned by FlixMobility GmbH, which also operates FlixTrain and FlixCar.

Betterment is an online investment company that offers investing and retirement solutions for their current clients and clients-to-be.


Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top content platform and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. 

QuintoAndar is an online brokerage firm for rental properties. The platform enables property seekers to specify a location and obtain a list of registered properties. Once a property is shortlisted user can schedule visits and book it via the platform. For the property owners, the company provides assistance in renting the property from taking professional photographs to closing the deal. 

Adevinta is an online marketplace for second-hand goods. The company offers pre-owned mobiles, furniture, vehicles, job, real estate, cars, consumer goods, and more.

Mattermost is the leading open source collaboration platform with a thriving community.

ClickUp is a customizable productivity platform that replaces other workplace apps for all users and all departments in an organization.

1mg is an online platform that provides medical diagnostics, consultation, lab tests, and general healthcare.

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


Postscript is a powerful, easy-to-use SMS platform for Shopify stores. Send campaigns, create automations, and drive new revenue with texts, gifs, and more.


ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants across the US — via restaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow’s website — while also providing their restaurant partners key customer insights and marketing support. They do all of this for a reasonable monthly fee, without the predatory third-party commissions charged by their competitors. Using ChowNow allows diners to connect with the best independent restaurants in their communities to order takeout and in some cases delivery, in a way that’s sustainable and fair to restaurants.

Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation. With Gousto, you choose recipes you’d like to cook! They deliver the perfectly measured ingredients. Helping you to skip the supermarket queue, and create delicious meals to share with those you love.

Delivery Hero is a network of online food ordering sites with over 100 restaurant partners worldwide.


LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers.

Classy offers an online and mobile platform that enables socially good organizations to raise funds for various causes.


Collibra is a data intelligence solution provider. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects IT and the business to build a data-based culture for the digital enterprise. It helps IT organizations to reduce complexity, risk, and costs. Collibra was a spin-off from STARLab at the Free University of Brussels. The Data Governance Center covers all key data governance and stewardship activities including Master data management, data quality, metadata management.

Jodel is the world’s hyperlocal community app. Jodel exists to let you instantly engage with the people around you. Discover the hottest news, events, stories, and jokes in the community around you! Ask for local tips, advice, or meet up with people in your area who share your interests.

PhotoBox is Europe's leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.


Mighty Digital is a growth engineering agency that empowers data-informed growth for digital products. We help clients leverage data to acquire, activate, and retain more customers.

Wellthy is a caregiving support service for families with complex, chronic, and ongoing care needs. It is transforming family care through personalized care support that you can control from an online dashboard.

We’re a design tool that makes it possible to design anything and publish anywhere 💙

The internet’s source of freely-usable images

Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.



The world's leading media platform for football

Loft is moving Brazilian homebuying into the ecommerce age. We bring transparency, liquidity and credit to millions of Brazilians, delivering home ownership and happiness on the back of a full stack digital solution.

Contentful helps digital teams assemble content and deliver experiences, faster. Open and flexible content platform adapts to how digital builders work to meet business goals through easy customization and deep integration with any tech stack. Digital teams can reuse and automate content across devices and channels, so they can worry less about content maintenance and more about their customers.

The app that allows you to use toll roads, skip cash lanes and conveniently pay tolls as you go. Also, you'll get informative toll price alerts and smartly plan your route with trip cost estimates. All so you can get where you're going without a bump in the road.

branch energy is an energy supplier that uses modern data science and engineering tools to lower our customer bills, all with 100% renewable energy and while planting many trees.

Singularity Data is an early-stage start-up that innovates next-generation database systems. The company develops RisingWave, a cloud-native sql streaming database for modern real-time applications.

RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database that uses sql as the interface language. It is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. RisingWave consumes streaming data, performs continuous queries, and updates results dynamically. As a database system, RisingWave maintains results inside its own storage and allows users to access data efficiently.

Singularity Data was founded in early 2021 by a team of experienced database researchers and practitioners who have previously worked for the likes of, AWS Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Uber, etc.

Singularity Data has raised tens of millions of us dollars from top-tier vc funds and angels.

Wellness platform that helps individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance through sustainable, science-backed solutions.

improving the python data ecosystem with managed saas solutions to help with the deployment, production and collaboration on data projects using python

startup jobs & startup talent you can't find anywhere else

justos builds insurance products that are fairer, smarter, and more human. we offer our customers products that reward safe behavior, are easy to understand, and that get paid out faster when things don't go according to plan. we are using data science, design, and brand to disrupt a multi-billion dollar insurance industry, similar to what has been happening in retail banking over the last 10 years. ultimately, we are building a safe and fairer world. 

Automatad, inc. is a digital media products co. that provides a suite of programmatic monetization solutions that drives efficiency and superior monetization at scale. using our platform digital publishers can create, monetize, and optimize for the best ad experience. 

CircleUp is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs with the funding and support that they need to thrive. having identified over a hundred successful brands, we use our helio business intelligence platform to increase the speed, quality and objectivity of decision-making in the private company landscape through a unique application of data and machine learning technology.

kyligence was founded in 2016 by the original creators of apache kylin™, the leading open source olap for big data. kyligence offers an intelligent olap platform to simplify multi-dimensional analytics for the cloud data lake. its ai-augmented engine detects patterns from most frequently asked business queries, builds governed data marts automatically, and brings metrics accountability to the data lake to optimize the data pipeline and avoid excessive numbers of tables. it provides a unified sql interface between cloud object stores, cubes, indexes, and underlying data sources with a cost-based smart query router for business intelligence, ad-hoc analytics, and data services at petabyte scale.

clevermaps is a location insights platform supporting the modern data stack ecosystem.  

clevermaps creates a platform that allows users to get location insights in its map-based bi app, data analysts to work with location data without gis knowledge, and sw developers to build custom data apps or compose analytical environments.


infoprice is a technology and data company focused on pricing and dynamic pricing for retail

chongtechnologies "data driven company by design" is an engineering & data science & artificial intelligence consultancy. we started in 2019 as a small group of people united by a broad vision of transforming the data industry, which empowers companies to transform data into information for decision making and improve the performance of their business and thus acquire competitive strategic advantages in relation to competition.

in addition, we position ourselves as an integrator of solutions and services capable of supporting the entire data driven journey of companies through consulting services and strategic partnerships with the main products on the market. in this way, we are able to support our customers from infrastructure, through culture to value delivery through advanced analytics.

we streamline the way companies manage, analyze and exchange high volumes of information/events, in real-time, providing data from multiple sources to countless destinations at the right time.

large companies are already using real-time data streaming to boost their business. what is the path you plan to take? the one about digital transformation, right? come with us .

Craft is a supplier intelligence company helping organizations accelerate data-informed business decisions. our unique, proprietary data platform enables supply chain and procurement professionals to discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers and create stronger supply chain resilience by tracking thousands of real-time signals across millions of companies globally. the company provides comprehensive, complete supplier data and intuitive software tools delivering best-in-class monitoring and insight into global supply chains and market intelligence as well as facilitating better and more proactive decisions that minimize disruptions and risk.

online whiteboard and collaboration software

🧙 A modern replacement for airflow. Open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data.

Unified platform for data governance and data observability

userled a no-code journey builder for b2b saas companies to create in-product experiences that convert users to paid plans

observability for growth - 
coral tracks the actions and events driving growth in your business.


gamechanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in new york city, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today

dashlane's mission is to make security simple for millions of organizations and their people. we empower businesses of every size to protect company and employee data while helping everyone easily log in to the accounts they need—anytime, anywhere. over 17 million users and 20,000 businesses in 180 countries use dashlane for a faster, simpler, and more secure internet.

Selectdb is a cloud-native real-time data warehouse developed based on the apache doris open source project by the same key developers. the selectdb company focuses on the enterprise-grade cloud-native distribution for apache doris.

zippi empowers microentrepeneurs to purchase supplies for their businesses.

build and manage continuous data pipelines.

&facts provides brands with consumer insights powered by billions of global consumers that help launch the right products at the right time. The ‘always-on’ platform constantly evaluates the business and market to feed intelligent insights and recommendations. 

jebra is an agile data stack, delivering zero-warehouse etls and reverse etls to mid sized businesses

Humanloop is a software platform that allows developers to build impactful products on top of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude. Our platform helps leading start-ups and enterprises to go faster from prototype to production application, evaluate LLMs and constantly improve them by incorporating private data.

Humanloop is headquartered in London, UK, and was founded by leading machine learning experts that previously worked on some of the largest AI projects at Google, Microsoft and Amazon. We are building the future in which AI does not replace humans but gives them the tools to achieve things that today are restricted to a tiny group of people with specialist expertise.

customer-facing analytics for modern saas

trackingplan automatically documents and monitors all the marketing data you are collecting.

Twinco Capital engages with large corporates to offer their suppliers access to affordable funding, from purchase order to final invoice payment. it is a unique model that significantly reduces risk and financing costs. twinco helps build competitive and socially responsible supply chains.

Overview	Alation	AWS S3
Categories	Data Discovery, Data Cataloging	Data Lakes
Stage	Late Stage	Late Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise, Mid size	Enterprise, Mid size
Deployment	SaaSOn Prem	SaaS
Business Model	Commercial	Commercial
Pricing	Free trial	Freemium
Location	California, US	US
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