{"id":28,"date":"2021-04-08T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cometml.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=press_release&p=28"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:16:19","slug":"comet-raises-13m-series-a-to-become-the-mlops-standard-for-model-development-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/about-us\/news\/press-releases\/comet-raises-13m-series-a-to-become-the-mlops-standard-for-model-development-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet Raises $13M Series A to Become the MLOps Standard for Model Development & Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comet<\/a>, a leading provider of MLOps solutions, today announced that it has raised $13M in Series A funding led by\u00a0Scale Venture Partners<\/a>\u00a0and existing investors including Trilogy Equity Partners and Two Sigma Ventures. Driven by more than 500% revenue growth over the past year, the new funds will be used to accelerate and scale Comet\u2019s product development, sales, marketing, and engineering functions. In addition to the funding, Comet announced the acquisition of Stakion, a model production monitoring company based in the U.K. The acquisition supports Comet\u2019s newest product innovation, Comet Model Production Monitoring, which will enable organizations to track and monitor the quality of models after they have been deployed in production.<\/p>\n

Series A Funding<\/strong>
\n\u201cComet\u2019s focus is helping enterprises achieve success with machine learning, and we\u2019ve seen tremendous success supporting some of the world\u2019s foremost machine learning platform teams at organizations like Uber, Etsy, and Ancestry,\u201d said Gideon Mendels, CEO and co-founder, Comet. \u201cBy partnering with Scale Venture Partners for our Series A, we\u2019ll be able to double down on that success and deliver best-in-class solutions for machine learning model development and monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Machine Learning teams across the industry recognize the need for best-of-breeds solutions that can fit and integrate into their overall platform. Comet is the only solution in the market that supports \u201cCode Panels,\u201d an ecosystem of plugins, extensions and visualizations built by the community and industry teams. \u201cML teams recognize that end-to-end platforms are not a panacea and choose Comet because it integrates seamlessly with their existing ecosystem, allowing them to customize the product to their specific use case,\u201d continued Mendels.<\/p>\n

\u201cMachine learning and AI will drive the future of enterprise software, and ensuring that organizations have full visibility and control of a model\u2019s lifecycle will be imperative to it,\u201d said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners. \u201cComet\u2019s ability to drive successful enterprise deployments and scale at the largest companies, as well as its focus in AI and ML, make it an ideal addition to our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Including this round, Comet\u2019s total funding is $19.3M from Two Sigma Ventures, Trilogy Investments, Amazon Alexa Fund, and Scale Venture Partners. Andy Vitus of Scale Venture Partners will be joining Comet\u2019s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

Introducing Comet Model Production Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to the new funding, Comet announced its newest product, Comet Model Production Monitoring (MPM), which enables organizations to track and monitor the quality of models after they have been deployed in production. When used in tandem with Comet Enterprise, data scientists will have visibility into model quality and performance throughout the model\u2019s lifecycle \u2013 from creation and experimentation, to production and iteration. This innovation has been supported by the acquisition of Stakion, a model production monitoring company based in the U.K., that took place earlier this year. As part of the acquisition, the Stakion team will be joining Comet and will continue innovating with production monitoring.<\/p>\n

Comet MPM is a key innovation, as data science teams do not have full visibility across a model\u2019s entire lifecycle. That means even if a model is successfully deployed to production, it can still struggle to meet its business KPIs once it\u2019s live. The core issue is a gap in model development and monitoring tooling \u2013 today\u2019s tools are either focused on training or on getting models into production, making it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get full visibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re only focused on the training or the production performance, you\u2019re missing a key feedback loop for your data science teams to continue iterating,\u201d continued Mendels. \u201cBy combining knowledge on the model from both training and production environments, you can unlock significant value in areas such as concept drift and out-of-distribution detection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comet MPM is available to existing Comet customers today. Comet is headquartered in New York, NY. Comet is free to try and for academics, with startup, team, and enterprise licensing available. Learn more at\u00a0www.comet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Scale Venture Partners<\/strong>
\nScale is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in the future leaders of enterprise software. We were early investors in SaaS pioneers like Box, DocuSign, HubSpot, RingCentral, and Bill.com and continue that tradition with investments in transformational business software from companies like JFrog, WalkMe, CircleCI, KeepTruckin, BigID, and Lever. Our Scale Studio platform leverages an unrivaled dataset of 1,000+ successful startups to give founders benchmarks on their company\u2019s \u201cVital Signs\u201d \u2014 the growth and operating metrics that matter most. Learn more about our people, portfolio, and perspectives at\u00a0www.scalevp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Comet<\/strong>
\nComet provides a self-hosted and cloud-based MLOps solution that enables data scientists and teams to track, compare, explain and optimize experiments and models. Backed by thousands of users and multiple Fortune 100 companies, Comet provides insights and data to build better, more accurate AI models while improving productivity, collaboration and visibility across teams. Learn more at\u00a0www.comet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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