If software is eating the world, artificial intelligence will devour it.
Every field is already transforming into the computational version of itself, be it computational medicine, computational biology, computational physics, computational transport, and even art, fashion, and music.
But while there are tons of new developments in AI every day, there's still a lot of friction in finding the right code and know-how to actually implement them.
We faced this problem first-hand while working on machine learning and intelligent systems both in academia and industry.
The status quo is a heavily fragmented, inefficient experience — which involves making lots of Google searches, poring through various papers and write-ups, trying to find relevant code implementations, often emailing authors and experts, and going through several social platforms in the hope of finding useful pointers.
This seems absolutely nuts to us. It's a miracle anything good makes it out at all from research to the real world. Imagine how much technological and scientific progress is held back simply because of information overload and inaccessibility.
CatalyzeX is building a platform to help people quickly find the right machine learning techniques, code, and know-how — so they can rapidly experiment and leverage AI to enable groundbreaking projects that otherwise just wouldn’t be possible.
Today CatalyzeX is already being used by developers, data scientists, and applied researchers from both startups and larger institutions around the world.
Our mission is to ultimately make AI accessible for all builders & makers across industries, and in turn supercharge technological and scientific progress for humanity.
We're pumped to now announce $1.64 million in venture funding from the incredible folks at Unshackled Ventures, Kepler Ventures, On Deck, Abstraction Capital, Darling Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, and Basecamp Fund.
We're also backed by some brilliant individuals — Anthony Goldbloom (co-founder & CEO of Kaggle acq'd by Google), Joe Fernandez (co-founder & CEO of Klout), Binh Tran (co-founder of Klout, partner at 500 Startups), Slava Kovalevskyi (ex-Google Cloud AI manager), Ilya Kirnos (ex-Google tech lead on Gmail Ads, AdWords, Google Prediction Markets), Michael Shuffett (founder & CEO of Compose AI), Ritesh Malik (founder & CEO of Innov8 acq’d by OYO), and Akshay Chaturvedi (founder & CEO of Leverage Edu).
Cheers to all our family, friends, and well-wishers who believed in us and supported us so far.
We still have a long way to go with lots to be done, and we couldn't be more excited for the challenge ahead!
- Gaurav Ragtah and Himanshu Ragtah
