Bauplan Launches With $7.5 Million in Seed to Bring AI & Data Infrastructure Into Software Engineering
Summary
The data infrastructure industry has long been dominated by complex platforms and specialized teams, limiting data-intensive operations to costly, highly skilled professionals, stifling innovation and distracting developers with intricate cloud setups. As API-driven deployment in AI and the shift towards object storage reshape industry needs, data infrastructure must become accessible to software engineers skilled in application development but not necessarily in big-data systems. The team has worked on data and machine learning for a long time, published 60+ research papers, earned thousands of citations, and created popular open source contributions with over 50M downloads and 10k GitHub stars. "Bauplan has done pioneering infrastructure work to create a Lambda-like experience for complex data and AI workloads," said Davis Treybig, Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Our investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Augment, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Own Company, Panther, Planet, Skylo, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more.