Alteryx is owned by Alteryx, Inc., controlled by private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners. The sponsors completed a $4.4 billion take-private in March 2024 at $48.25 per share.

When was Alteryx founded?

Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding founded the company in 1997 in Irvine, California as SRC, LLC. It adopted the Alteryx name in 2010 as its flagship product grew beyond its spatial analytics roots.

What is Alteryx used for?

Alteryx provides analytics automation: analysts use its drag-and-drop workflows to prepare, blend, and analyze data without coding. The newer Alteryx One platform extends that into cloud analytics, governance, and AI-ready data products.

Who is the CEO of Alteryx?

Andy MacMillan has been CEO since December 2024. He succeeded co-founder Dean Stoecker and previously led UserTesting and Act-On Software, with earlier roles at Salesforce.

Did anyone challenge the Alteryx buyout?

Yes. Former shareholders sued over the $4.4 billion sale, alleging a flawed process. The Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the lawsuit in September 2026, finding no fiduciary breach in the transaction.

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Who Owns Alteryx?

Q: Is Alteryx publicly traded?

No. Alteryx traded on the NYSE under the ticker AYX from its March 2017 IPO until March 2024, when the Clearlake and Insight acquisition closed and shares were delisted.

Alteryx is the analytics automation brand of Alteryx, Inc., a privately held software company headquartered in Irvine, California. Founded in 1997 as SRC, the company pioneered self-service data preparation through Alteryx Designer and now markets the Alteryx One platform for enterprise AI. Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners took the company private in March 2024 for $4.4 billion.

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Parent Company

Alteryx, Inc.

Founded

1997

Status

Private

Headquarters

Irvine, California, United States

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Who Owns Alteryx?

Parent Company: Alteryx, Inc.
Ownership Type: Wholly owned
Company Type: Privately Held

Brand	Parent Company	Ownership Type
Alteryx	Alteryx, Inc.	Wholly owned

History of Alteryx

Founded: 1997
Founders: Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, Ned Harding

Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding founded SRC, LLC in Irvine in 1997. The original business built spatial analytics and demographic data products for retail site selection, a niche that taught the founders how painful data preparation was for analysts.

SRC's core tool evolved into a drag-and-drop workflow designer that let analysts blend, clean, and analyze data without code. The company renamed itself Alteryx in 2010, matching the product name as the platform broadened beyond spatial analytics.

Alteryx Designer became a cult product among business analysts: expensive per seat, but capable of replacing weeks of SQL work. Revenue compounded through the 2010s, and the March 2017 IPO was one of the year's better enterprise debuts, valuing the company near $900 million at listing and much more later.

Trouble built slowly. Cloud-native rivals chipped at the installed base, the company's own cloud transition lagged, and founder Stoecker cycled through CEO changes, including a stint as executive chairman. Growth decelerated hard into 2023.

Clearlake and Insight announced their $4.4 billion take-private in December 2023 and closed in March 2024. The new owners installed MacMillan as CEO at the end of 2024 and repositioned Alteryx as an "AI data clearinghouse": the governed business-logic layer between enterprise data and AI models. Alteryx One, launched in 2025, unified the product line under a single capacity-priced platform.

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What does Alteryx do?

Alteryx sells an analytics automation platform used to prepare, blend, and analyze enterprise data. Its Alteryx One product unifies workflow automation, cloud analytics, machine learning, and governance, marketed as a business logic and AI data layer for enterprises.