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explosion.ai

AI and Natural Language Processing tools

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Tech
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
Mitte, Berlin, Germany

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Company mission

To make AI development just like any other type of web development.

Led by a woman

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Our take

AI companies can sink or swim on the diversity and flexibility of their product range and Explosion.ai has recognised just that. The Berlin-based startup combines a suite of commercial developer tools with an open-source machine-learning library. The aim of this is to help software developers maintain their focus and clarity on natural language processing for AI.

Part owned by tech venture capital firm SignalFire, Explosion.ai have always made sure that the open-source nature of its tech is at the heart of its decision-making, it's founders having met when working on open source project Spacy. After adding Prodigy, a scriptable annotation tool for coding to their suite of products, Explosion.ai has now released Prodigy Teams, an add-on that allows more collaboration for users.

With a sturdy ethos of transparency and collaboration and $6 million in investment, Explosion.ai has attracted Microsoft developers and Bayer employees to buy their products. It also has a vast pool of open-source users attracted by Explosion.ai’s collaborative and forward-thinking attitude.

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Company values

  • Artificial Intelligence is not magic. The technology is only useful if it’s easy to understand.
  • The best AI products won’t be built from boxed solutions. Developers need custom models and transparent tools, not just cloud services.
  • AI software needs a better developer and user experience. This requires hybrid skill sets and radical attention to detail.
  • If you ship it, you should own it. Explosion.ai believes in taking responsibility for its software, and letting you do the same.
  • Technology should be accessible. Explosion.ai wants to provide the most value with open-source software. That’s why it's built spaCy and our other tools and libraries.
  • Explosion.ai is not your typical startup. We’re boot­strapped, independent and puts stability over moonshots.

Funding (1 round)

Sep 2021

$6m

SERIES A

Total funding: $6m

Leadership

Matthew Honnibal

(CTO)

Previously Research Scientist at Appen and University of Sydney, Post-doctoral Fellow at Macquarie University

Ines Montani

(CEO)

Sales & Marketing Executive at Exberliner, Educational Programmes and Language Courses at Deutsche Welle.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at explosion.ai

  • Female founded