Striveworks – a leading provider of machine learning operations (MLOps) for enterprise data science and analytics teams – announced the successful closure of its first institutional fundraising round of $33 million. This all-equity round was led by Centana Growth Partners, a specialized growth equity firm that invests in fintech and related enterprise software, with participation from existing investors.
The funding round will be used for expanding their team and bringing on more engineers, salespeople, and marketing professionals to help drive growth and increase capabilities to better serve their customers.
Data analytics has become a necessary tool for making effective decisions, but many organizations struggle with keeping production models performant. And Striveworks aims to simplify the process with a user-friendly, no-code platform that manages the entire model lifecycle, making it more accessible and effective in fast-paced environments.
The company’s cutting-edge MLOps platform Chariot operates invisibly behind the scenes to make the model building, deployment, and remediation process seamless. And Striveworks has quickly become a prominent player in the market, with ARR growth of over 300% over the last two years.
Chariot essentially enables enterprises’ data science and analytics teams to streamline the process of taking machine learning models to production and then maintaining, monitoring, and improving those models. With Chariot, developers can quickly and easily build and train models and then deploy them into production. And the platform empowers users with a flexible and differentiated solution offering, including data labeling, model training, deployment, monitoring, and remediation.
Recently, Striveworks unveiled version 4.10 of the Chariot Platform. And this release launched Chariot Workspaces, a dedicated environment for users to develop last-mile platform integrations. Plus enhancements to Chariot’s NLP and remediation capabilities further enable users to disappear MLOps for a broader range of use cases.
The Striveworks founding team has more than 20 years of experience working together. And with their shared vision of wanting to make MLOps disappear, they started Striveworks in 2018 to combat the issues that plague organizations when it came to their MLOps processes. Striveworks’ board members consist of:
— Ben Cukier (Centana Growth Partners)
— Leonard Laufer (Senior Advisor, Blackstone)
— The Honorable Ryan D. McCarthy (Former Secretary of the Army)
— Anthony Manganiello (Striveworks)
— Jim Rebesco (Striveworks)
— Matthew Zames (Former Chief Operating Officer, JP Morgan Chase)
KEY QUOTES:
“At the end of the day, decision-makers need to make timely, data-driven decisions. Analytics, sitting under the hood, make that possible, but those decisions and the analytics they draw from need to be measurable, observable, and ethical. At Striveworks, we strongly believe these MLOps processes that keep those analytics performant can and should be done at high speed, behind the scenes and with the lowest user impact possible. This new funding allows us to continue to build and refine our industry-leading MLOps platform to support our partners and enable them to efficiently manage the vast amount of data the world has to offer, bringing the platform to where the data and decisions are made. As we look to build on our existing presence by expanding and commercializing in new, highly-regulated industries, partnering with an established firm like Centana, with its own track record of success, was an easy decision.”
— Striveworks CEO Jim Rebesco
“Striveworks has built an impressive platform for continued machine learning that has become a tool of choice for decision makers in industries where effectively leveraging data is equally if not more important than having access to it. Our team recognized the immense potential for MLOps platforms to reshape the world of data analytics and quickly took note of Striveworks as a leader in the field. With deep expertise investing in data intelligence and AI, we’re proud to work with and support their exceptional leadership and team as they continue to grow and expand their business.”
— Ben Cukier, Partner at Centana Growth Partners
“As near peers continue to invest heavily in frontier technologies, it is more important than ever that innovative American companies continue to provide advanced solutions that will enable U.S. and Allied national security to remain best in class. Striveworks’ MLOps platform enables decision makers to change the fundamentals of real time decision making and create a distinct competitive advantage. Centana brings the resources of a world-class venture partner to expedite product development and scale product capabilities to a very motivated customer.”
— 24th Secretary of the U.S. Army and Striveworks Board Member Ryan D. McCarthy
