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title: "Prukalpa Sankar - Co-founder & Co-CEO | Atlan"
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description: "Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder of Atlan, the context layer for AI at organizations like Mastercard, Workday, General Motors, and Dropbox. She..."
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> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder of Atlan, the context layer for AI at organizations like Mastercard, Workday, General Motors, and Dropbox. She previously co-founded SocialCops, a world-leading data-for-good company named a New York Times Global Visionary and World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, which worked with the UN, the Gates Foundation, and the Government of India.

## Profile

- Byline type: Co-founder & operator
- Title: Co-founder & Co-CEO, Atlan
- Covers: enterprise context, active metadata, data teams
- Atlan editorial contributor since May 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prukalpa/

## Education

- B.Eng - Nanyang Technological University

## About Prukalpa

Prukalpa Sankar has spent over a decade building at the intersection of data and AI.

She is the co-founder of Atlan, the context layer for AI at organizations like Mastercard, Workday, General Motors, and Dropbox. Atlan grew out of the internal tooling her team built to find, trust, and collaborate around their own data. It solved the chaos of a real data team before becoming a product for everyone else.

Before Atlan, Prukalpa and Varun Banka co-founded SocialCops in 2012, a world-leading data-for-good company that worked with the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, and the Government of India on projects ranging from public health to urban planning. SocialCops was named a New York Times Global Visionary and a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer.

She is the founder of the Context and Chaos newsletter (formerly Metadata Weekly), where practitioners share what actually works in the trenches of data and AI. A Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune 40 Under 40, Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, and TED speaker, Prukalpa holds a B.Eng from Nanyang Technological University.

## Speaking & appearances

- The Analytics Engineering Podcast - "The modern data culture stack" (2022): https://analyticshour.io/2022/05/17/193-the-modern-data-culture-stack-with-prukalpa-sankar/

## Industry recognition

- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Fortune 40 Under 40
- TED Speaker
- Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year

## Articles

Prukalpa's bylined articles are listed on her profile: https://atlan.com/authors/prukalpa-sankar/#articles

## Editorial relationship

Founder & operator. Prukalpa is a co-founder and co-CEO of Atlan. Articles published under her byline reflect her own analysis and perspective as a company leader. She reviews and approves every piece published under her byline before publication.