Seldon (company)

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Seldon.io
Company logo of Seldon.io.jpeg
Type of business Private
Founded28 August 2014;9 years ago (2014-08-28) [1]
HeadquartersLondon
Founder(s) Alex Housley
Industry Machine Learning
Information technology
Artificial Intelligence
Products Seldon Deploy

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ML Server
Parent Independent
URL seldon.io

Seldon Technologies Limited (commonly referred to as Seldon) is a British technology company founded in 2014, and headquartered in London, England. It makes MLOps software for enterprise deployment of machine learning models, and is a primary maintainer and contributor to a number of popular open source repositories such as Seldon Core.

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History

Seldon was founded in 2014, and joined the Barclays Techstars Incubator in 2015 to develop tooling for AI, and as of 2020 has deployed more than 1 million machine learning models. [2] Seldon is a guest advisor to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group for Artificial Intelligence. [2]

The primary focus of the company is building cloud agnostic Machine Learning (ML) deployment tooling; and has worked in partnership Google, Red Hat, IBM and Amazon Web Services. [3]

In 2019 they raised a €3 million seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, along with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars, and other existing investors. [4] [5] [6]

Raised a £7.1M Series A co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital in November 2020. [3] [7]

Announced a Series B funding round resulting in an investment of $20M led by Bright Pixel with significant contribution from existing investors [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "SELDON TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  2. 1 2 3 "Machine Learning Deployment For Enterprise". Seldon. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  3. 1 2 "Machine learning startup Seldon raises £7.1M Series A from AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital". UKTN (UK Tech News). 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  4. ↑ Loritz, Mary (2019-01-16). "London-based machine learning startup Seldon raises €3 million". EU-Startups. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  5. ↑ "Seldon company information, funding & investors". app.dealroom.co. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  6. ↑ "Seldon Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  7. ↑ "AI-tool maker Seldon raises £7.1M Series A from AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  8. ↑ "MLOps platform Seldon raises $20M Series B to improve the productions of AI models". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  9. ↑ Sagar, Ram (2021-05-04). "Top MLOps Tool Repositories On Github". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  10. ↑ Animesh Singh (2019-11-21). "Advanced Model Inferencing leveraging Kubeflow Serving, KNative and I…".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ↑ "Why Fintech Needs to Tackle AI Bias". The Fintech Times. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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