Atlan’s Control Plane to Power Data & AI Governance Attracts $105M, Elevating Valuation to $750M

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Written By Rick Watson

Atlan is the next-generation platform for data and AI governance. It is a control plane that stitches together a business’s disparate data infrastructure, cataloging data and enriching it with business context and security.

Atlan’s Series C is designed to further its mission of becoming a central nervous system for Data and AI. Really? Central nervous system?  But seriously, Atlan has identified that a lot of corporate data is not ready for AI, and no platform enriches it with enough context and allows corporations to control what data is used in AI models or not.

Atlan: Atlan’s Control Plane to Power Data & AI Governance Attracts $105M, Elevating Valuation to $750M

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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