- Pachyderm — an enterprise-grade open-source platform that enables explainable, repeatable, and scalable data science — announced that it has raised $16 million in Series B funding led by Microsoft’s venture arm M12
Pachyderm — an enterprise-grade, open-source platform that enables explainable, repeatable, and scalable data science — announced that it has raised $16 million in Series B funding led by Microsoft’s venture arm M12. Jon Sakoda of Decibel Ventures — which is an independent venture firm backed by Cisco — also joined the round alongside returning investors including Benchmark, Y Combinator, and several others.
M12’s investment was led by Microsoft Corporate Vice President and the fund’s Global Head Nagraj Kashyap — who will join Benchmark’s Chetan Puttagunta on Pachyderm’s board of directors.
Ever since Pachyderm launched in 2014, the company’s data science platform has become a critical tool within the machine learning software stack by providing artificial intelligence development teams with a reliable and single source of truth for their machine learning pipelines.
Over the past year, Pachyderm has attracted enterprise customers including Shell, LogMeIn, Battelle Ecology and AgBiome as well as multiple government agencies, pharmaceutical and bioinformatics companies, and two major North American banks.
Pachyderm enables these companies to quickly comply with emerging AI legal standards and ensures that Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) teams can always recreate data science experiments perfectly every time.
This round of funding comes as Pachyderm launches the general availability of Pachyderm Hub, Pachyderm’s fully-managed service solution that has been operating in public beta since November — which is available today. And with Pachyderm Hub, individuals and enterprise teams can get a Pachyderm cluster on-demand without having to take on the operational burden of managing their own infrastructure.
Pachyderm will be using the funding to accelerate hiring, continue building Pachyderm Hub, and expand on its vision to provide enterprises with explainable and repeatable data processing at scale.
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“M12 and Decibel will prove essential to our expansion. With their experience supporting the growth of B2B startups and their direct access to Microsoft’s and Cisco’s strength, expansive enterprise network, and diversity of investments, we see them as essential partners for our next stage of growth.”
— Joey Zwicker, Co-founder of Pachyderm
“Value from AI is not just about the first great insight. It’s ensuring that every insight only gets more accurate with time. Pachyderm’s ability to deliver data lineage to data scientists is a great leap towards explainable AI.”
— Vaibhav Kumar, Software Engineering Fullstack Development Manager at Shell
“We’re excited to witness the acceleration of Pachyderm’s enterprise adoption as data versioning becomes an imperative for organizations of all sizes. Pachyderm is on its way to becoming the next big data infrastructure company as enterprises aim to mirror best practices from the DevOps domain. M12 looks forward to partnering in that journey.”
— Microsoft Corporate Vice President and the fund’s Global Head Nagraj Kashyap
