{"id":114050,"date":"2020-10-08T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/grid-ai-raises-18-6m-series-a-to-help-ai-researchers-and-engineers-bring-their-models-to-production"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T23:25:12","slug":"grid-ai-raises-18-6m-series-a-to-help-ai-researchers-and-engineers-bring-their-models-to-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/grid-ai-raises-18-6m-series-a-to-help-ai-researchers-and-engineers-bring-their-models-to-production","title":{"rendered":"Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/grid-ai-raises-18-6m-series-a-to-help-ai-researchers-and-engineers-bring-their-models-to-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grid.ai\/\">Grid AI<\/a>, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PyTorchLightning\/pytorch-lightning\">PyTorch Lightning<\/a> project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers work more efficiently, today announced that it has raised an $18.6 million Series A funding round, which closed earlier this summer. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and firstminute.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon co-founded the company with Luis Capelo, who was previously the head of machine learning at Glossier. Unsurprisingly, the idea here is to take <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/pytorch\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >PyTorch<\/a> Lightning, which launched about a year ago, and turn that into the core of Grid\u2019s service. The main idea behind Lightning is to decouple the data science from the engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The time argues that a few years ago, when data scientists tried to get started with deep learning, they didn\u2019t always have the right expertise and it was hard for them to get everything right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers work more efficiently, today announced that it has raised an $18.6 million Series A funding round, which closed earlier this summer. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}