Ponder
Founders
Doris Lee - CEO & Co-Founder
Devin Petersohn - CTO & Co-Founder
Aditya Parameswaran - President & Co-Founder
Founded
2021
Stage
Seed
Invested
2021
Status
Acquired by Snowflake
Lightspeed Team
Gaurav Gupta - Partner
Nnamdi Iregbulem - Partner

Ponder provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale. Ponder empowers data teams to get insights faster with tools they know and love. Ponder commercializes open-source tools, Modin and Lux, which have been downloaded millions of times. Leading data science teams—including 10 Fortune 100 companies—leverage Ponder’s technology to seamlessly accelerate their data science workloads.

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