Determined AI, a deep learning management platform company, recently announced it raised $11 million in funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). This round of funding will be used for growing its market footprint and hiring more engineers with experience in distributed system design, according to VentureBeat.
And the funding will be used for launching new features to its deep learning model development tool for machine learning engineers and data scientists such as ways developers identify and preprocess data sets. Amplify Partners, CRV, Haystack, SV Angel, Specialized Types, and The House also participated in this round. Including this round, Determined AI has raised over $13 million.
Founded by Evan Sparks, Neil Conway, and Ameet Talwalkar in 2017, Determined AI reduces time-to-market by increasing developer productivity, improving resource utilization, and reducing risk. The company is comprised of a team of machine learning and distributed systems experts including key contributors to Spark MLlib, Apache Mesos, and PostgreSQL.
“Determined AI takes a pragmatic, results-driven approach to deep learning, with a goal of dramatically improving the productivity of deep learning developers,” says the company’s website. “Our integrated AutoML platform simplifies the entire deep learning workflow from data management to model training and deployment. We manage your heterogeneous hardware and optimize your GPU resource utilization.”
The three of them met while attending computer science school at University of California, Berkeley. Talwalkar is now an assistant professor in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University. And Determined AI’s advisors include Michael Franklin (chairman of the computer science department at the University of Chicago), Ben Lorica (chief data scientist at O’Reilly Media), Ameet Patel (technology advisor and investor), and Ted Stinson (COO at covariant.ai and venture partner at Amplify).
