Numbers Station

An 18-person AI data analysis startup founded in 2021 that helps customers use natural language to automate data analysis; acquired by...

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Sectors
Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Automation
Stage
Acquired

Alation Acquires AI Startup Numbers Station, Backed by Madrona and Others, to Enhance Data Intelligence Platform

Alation, a Silicon Valley data intelligence company valued at $1.7 billion, acquired Numbers Station, an 18-person AI data analysis startup backed by Madrona, to integrate its natural language data automation technology. Numbers Station, founded in 2021 and backed by prominent investors, will have its product incorporated into Alation's platform to enhance enterprise data intelligence.

Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling

This week, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter talks to Numbers Station Co-founders Chris Aberger and Ines Chami. We announced our investment in Numbers Station's $17.5M Series A in March and are very excited about the work they're doing with foundation models, which is very different than what has been making headlines this year. It isn't content or image generation – Numbers Station is bringing the transformational power of AI inside of those foundation models to the data-wrangling problems we've all felt! You can't analyze data if the data is not prepared and transformed, which in the past has been a…