Alation
Top Executive: CEO Satyen Sangani
Alation exited stealth last year, debuting its enterprise data-accessibility platform that's designed to help people more easily find, understand, use and govern their data for making faster and better decisions.
Alation said its platform combines elements of machine learning with human insight to capture information about what the data describes, where it comes from, who's using it and how it's being used. The company's key executives and technologists came from Oracle, Google, Apple and other IT companies.
Based in Redwood City, Calif., Alation was founded in 2012.