CatalyzeX raises $1.64M in seed round
San Francisco-based CatalyzeX raised $1.64 million in its seed round of funding from Unshackled Ventures, Darling Ventures, Kepler Ventures, On Deck, Abstraction Capital, Unpopular Ventures, and Basecamp Fund. The round also saw participation from individual Indian investors including Ritesh Malik (Innov8) and Akshay Chaturvedi (Leverage Edu), Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle), Joe Fernandez (Klout), Binh Tran (Klout), Slava Kovalevskyi (Google Cloud AI), Ilya Kirnos (SignalFire), and Michael Shuffett (Compose AI).
“There are hundreds of new developments in AI research every day, but developers face a lot of friction in finding the right code and know-how to actually implement them. Our goal is to make AI more accessible for builders and makers — and supercharge technological progress for humanity,” said CatalyzeX co-founder Gaurav Ragtah.
Founded in 2019 by Delhi-based Gaurav and Himanshu Ragtah, the company aims to become a one-stop platform to help developers find the most appropriate machine learning techniques, code, and know-how for them.
“We’re already serving over 0.5 million code implementations per day and aim to expand from 30,000 weekly active users supported today by multiple orders of magnitude,” added Gaurav.