ZenML, a Munich, Germany-based creator of an extensible open-source Machine Learning Operationalization (MLOps) framework for data scientists, raised $2.7 million in seed funding.

The round was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, Jim Keller, Dirk Hoke, Nicolas Dessaigne, Carsten Thoma, and others.

The company will use this funding to build out the tooling suite in the open and expand its team of the world's leading ML technologists.

Company: ZenML GmbH

Raised: $2.7M

Round: Seed Round

Funding Month: December 2021

Lead Investors: Crane Venture Partners

Additional Investors: Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, Jim Keller, Dirk Hoke, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Carsten Thoma

Company Website: https://zenml.io/

Software Category: open-source Machine Learning Operationalization (MLOps) framework

About the Company: ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. It has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud and tooling agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. The framework is available as a lightweight Python library that lets data scientists express their ML workflows as pipelines.

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zenml-raises-2-7-million-to-advance-open-source-mlops-framework-301443472.html