Explorium reveals $19.1M in total funding for machine learning data discovery platform

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
$3.6 million seed round last September and a $15.5 million Series A round in March
Today, it made both of these rounds public.The seed round was led by Emerge with participation of F2 Capital
The Series A was led by Zeev Ventures with participation from the seed investors
The total raised is $19.1 million.The company founders, who have a data science background, found that it was problematic to find the right
data to build a machine learning model
Like most good startup founders confronted with a problem, they decided to solve it themselves by building a data discovery platform for
data scientists.CEO and co-founder, Maor Shlomo says that the company wanted to focus on the quality of the data because not much work has
been done there
commodities
data set, public data or premium databases
The company has partnered with thousands of data sources, according to Schlomo, to help data scientist customers find the best data for
it with literally thousands of data sources, while automatically selecting what are the best pieces of data, and what are the best variables
partnerships, whether that involves data sources or consulting firms, who can help push Explorium into more companies.Explorium has 63
employees spread across offices in Tel Aviv, Kiev and San Francisco
with a shortage of data scientists, having a tool like Explorium could help fill that gap.