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Predibase is the first enterprise declarative machine learning platform. Declarative machine learning provides the best of flexibility and simplicity to enable the fastest-way to operationalize state-of-the-art models. Users focus on specifying the “what”, and the system figures out the “how”.

Full-time founders: Piero (CEO), Travis (CTO), Devvret (CPO), Chris Re

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   • Chris Re is an associate professor at Stanford. He has co-founded and sold multiple companies: Lattice which Apple bought. SambaNova which raised $676 million for series D. Snorkel AI which raised $85 million for series C

2. Top company alumni

   • Piero was a machine learning researcher at Uber and IBM for over 4 years. He was one of the founding members of Uber AI where he authored Ludwig, an open-source declarative deep learning framework

   • Travis was an engineer at Uber, Google, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 8 years. He co-authored Horovod, an open-source distributed deep learning training framework

   • Devvret built AI products at Google for over 4 years. He was the first product manager for Kaggle, the largest machine learning community

3. Top university alumni

   • Travis graduated from Harvard (MS)

   • Devvret graduated from Harvard (BS, AB)

   • Chris graduated from Cornell (BS) and University of Washington (PhD)

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew to 16 employees in 1 year

5. Accelerated financing

   • Founded in 2021, series A in 2022

6. Midas list investors

   • Greylock led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn