---
title: "Prukalpa Sankar"
category: "people"
role: "Founder & Co-CEO"
company: "Atlan"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/prukalpa"
twitter: "https://x.com/prukalpa"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Prukalpa Sankar

## Profile
Founder & Co-CEO at [[atlan|Atlan]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prukalpa)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/prukalpa)

## Biography
Prukalpa Sankar is the Founder & Co-CEO of [[atlan|Atlan]], the context layer for AI. She's been early to a defining idea of the AI era: context is king. AI systems are only as good as the business context behind the data they rely on. Under her leadership, [[atlan|Atlan]] has become a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrants for both Data & Analytics and Metadata Management, serves 300+ enterprises including Mastercard, GM, JPMorgan Chase, and Nasdaq, and has raised $200M+ from Sequoia, GIC, and Salesforce Ventures. Before [[atlan|Atlan]], Prukalpa co-founded SocialCops, the world's largest government data lake powering the UN's SDG monitoring — recognized by the New York Times and the World Economic Forum. She's been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 and Fortune 40 Under 40.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-prukalpa-sankar-wtf-is-the-context-layer-the-missing-infrastructure-for-production-agents]] — WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents (2026-06-30, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-prukalpa-sankar-wtf-is-the-context-layer-the-missing-infrastructure-for-production-agents|WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents]]

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