Obviously AI, a San Francisco, CA-based no-code tool that enables anyone to build and run AI models, raised $3.6m in seed funding.
The round was led by TMV, which also took a board role, with participation from B Capital Group, Golden Gate Ventures, Arka Venture Labs and several angels.
The company intends to use the funds to grow the company’s R&D, expand sales and marketing teams, introduce additional time series & other algorithms and build an integration ecosystem that can further automate its predictive AI capabilities.
Co-founded by Nirman Dave and Tapojit Debnath Tapu, Obviously AI provides a tool that enables anyone to build and run AI models without writing code. Launched in Feb 2020, the tool has 3,000+ users who have hosted over 82,000 predictive models.
Obviously AI built a proprietary technology called “Edge Sharp AutoML,” which delivers reliable models in under a minute. The technology works by first identifying the properties of a user’s data (e.g. types of features, sparseness, variance, etc.). It then uses these properties to intelligently shortlist only the top applicable ML algorithms, running each algorithm by automatically fine-tuning its hyper-parameters (aka settings) to eventually pick an algorithm that performs the best, both statistically and in terms of real-world performance.
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06/05/2021