Ponder commercializes two open-source projects—Modin, a scalable drop-in replacement for pandas, and Lux, an automated visualization tool for pandas—to help data teams scale without changing their workflows. The company targets enterprise customers with tools for machine learning and analytics that preserve pandas usability while addressing performance limits on large datasets. Ponder reports Modin and Lux have been downloaded over 2.5 million times and are used by 10 of the Fortune-100 across sectors including pharma, technology, and automotive. The company highlights case studies where Modin scaled preprocessing pipelines by up to 1,000x and Lux aided insight discovery from complex datasets. Born out of UC Berkeley’s RISELab, Ponder positions itself as remote-first and rooted in academic research. With new funding, the company plans to significantly expand its team in 2022 and continue growing and supporting the open-source community.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2022