Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder of Atlan, a leading active metadata and data governance platform that has become a staple of the modern data stack. Before moving to the US to scale Atlan, Prukalpa co-founded SocialCops, a data-for-good startup that worked on massive public health and infrastructure projects with the Government of India. She is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list multiple times. Based in San Francisco, Prukalpa has led Atlan through a rapid expansion phase, securing over $150M in funding from tier-1 investors like Sequoia Capital India (Peak XV) and Insight Partners, helping data teams at companies like Plaid and Cisco trust their data.

Atlan is a collaborative workspace for data teams that automates data governance, lineage, and documentation. It acts as a "home" for data assets, allowing analysts and engineers to discover, trust, and collaborate on data projects in real-time. Atlan integrates seamlessly with the modern data stack—including Snowflake, Databricks, and dbt—to provide a unified view of a company's data ecosystem. The company is based in San Francisco and has raised over $150M from investors like Sequoia Capital and Insight Partners to become a global leader in data management.