Kaggle operates an online platform that runs predictive data‑modeling competitions where organizations post large datasets and prize challenges to a community of data scientists. The platform hosts real‑time leaderboards and offers both public and private competitions (with NDAs and background checks) to protect sensitive data. Its community comprises more than 17,000 PhD‑level data scientists from over 100 countries and 200 universities; competitors have submitted nearly 47,000 entries across contests. Kaggle highlights outcomes such as a NASA/Royal Astronomical Society/ESA contest that helped map dark matter and an Allstate claim‑prediction challenge, and it is currently hosting the $3 million Heritage Health Prize. The company said it has just one developer and will use new funding toward hiring as well as sales and marketing. Kaggle serves governments, companies, and researchers seeking algorithmic solutions at scale.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2011