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Weights & Biases

‍MLOps platform for developers

201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internal tools
  • Visualisation
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
1479 Folsom St, San Francisco, California 94103, US

Company mission

Weights & Biases's mission is to build the best tools for machine learning.

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31% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

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Weights & Biases (W&B) builds development tools for machine learning, helping businesses to create and use deep learning models. In order for deep learning to work, it’s necessary for companies to be able to monitor how the models are behaving as they are trained. With over 200,000 customers, W&B has differentiated itself from its competitors such as IBM Watson Studio and Valohai by focusing exclusively on machine learning practitioners and not on sales aspects of the technology, and by its competitive pricing.

The company has also launched a product to help different parties collaborate on machine learning models. This is geared at researchers, reducing the need for them to rerun their training examples repeatedly. Over time, this will help to move machine learning technology forward. What's more, W&B's technology is free for personal and academic use, which has fueled adoption enormously, and it is now being used by research institutions such as UC Berkeley and enterpise companies like Samsung and Salesforce.

The dependence on machine learning is growing as more and more companies begin to use artificial intelligence to handle business tasks, so demand for this sort of software is rising. Having raised Series C funding, W&B is moving to futher develop its product, grow its team and increase its marketing reach.

Benefits

  • 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time
  • 🩺 100% Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage
  • 🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco
  • 💵 $500 home office budget with new high-powered laptop
  • 🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity
  • 🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave
  • 📈 401(k)

Company values

  • We're building a culture where people love coming to work to build cool things and collaborate with other smart people
  • It’s important to us that everyone feels comfortable being themselves and being honest with each other, and all of us take responsibility for making our customers successful
  • We love to work with people who are driven, kind and proactive
  • We care about diversity and if you are part of an underrepresented minority, we especially encourage you to apply to work here
  • We are contributing to responsible AI with tools for transparency and reproducibility in model development and deployment

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Aug 2023

$50m

LATE VC

Oct 2021

$135m

SERIES C

$250m

Total funding

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Founders

Earned a BA in Computer Science at Hope College. Previously Lead Engineer and Founder of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).

Earned a BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Scientist and Founder, CEO of Figure Eight (acquired by Appen).

Earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously Engineer at Google and Founder at Beep Networks.

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