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.

Nnamdi Iregbulem
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