Seldon (company)

British technology company

Seldon.io

Type of business| Private
Founded| 28 August 2014; 9 years ago (2014-08-28) [1]
Headquarters| London
Founder(s)| Alex Housley
Industry| Machine Learning
Information technology
Artificial Intelligence

Products| Seldon Deploy

Seldon Core Alibi Detect Alibi Explain

ML Server
Parent| Independent
URL| seldon.io

Seldon Technologies Limited (commonly referred to as Seldon) is a British technology company founded in 2014, and headquartered in London, England. It makes MLOps software for enterprise deployment of machine learning models, and is a primary maintainer and contributor to a number of popular open source repositories such as Seldon Core.

## History

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Seldon was founded in 2014, and joined the Barclays Techstars Incubator in 2015 to develop tooling for AI, and as of 2020 has deployed more than 1 million machine learning models.[2] Seldon is a guest advisor to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group for Artificial Intelligence.[2]

The primary focus of the company is building cloud agnostic Machine Learning (ML) deployment tooling; and has worked in partnership Google, Red Hat, IBM and Amazon Web Services.[3]

In 2019 they raised a €3 million seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, along with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars, and other existing investors.[4][5][6]

Raised a £7.1M Series A co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital in November 2020.[3][7]

Announced a Series B funding round resulting in an investment of $20M led by Bright Pixel with significant contribution from existing investors [8]

## Products

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* Core is a popular open-source MLOps framework used to package, deploy, monitor and manage production machine learning models.[9]
* KFServing, an alternative MLOPs framework created as part of the Kubeflow project by Google, Seldon, IBM, Bloomberg and Microsoft.[10]
* Alibi is an open-source Python library for machine learning model explainability, in 2020, Alibi earned Seldon a CogX Best Innovation in Explainable AI award.[11]
* Seldon Deploy, a closed-source software suite to deploy, manage, monitor and explain the outcomes of machine learning models.[2]

## References

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1. ^ "SELDON TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
2. ^ a b c "Machine Learning Deployment For Enterprise". Seldon. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
3. ^ a b "Machine learning startup Seldon raises £7.1M Series A from AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital". UKTN (UK Tech News). 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
4. ^ Loritz, Mary (2019-01-16). "London-based machine learning startup Seldon raises €3 million". EU-Startups. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
5. ^ "Seldon company information, funding & investors". app.dealroom.co. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
6. ^ "Seldon Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
7. ^ "AI-tool maker Seldon raises £7.1M Series A from AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
8. ^ "MLOps platform Seldon raises $20M Series B to improve the productions of AI models". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
9. ^ Sagar, Ram (2021-05-04). "Top MLOps Tool Repositories On Github". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
10. ^ Animesh Singh (2019-11-21). "Advanced Model Inferencing leveraging Kubeflow Serving, KNative and I…". `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)
11. ^ "Why Fintech Needs to Tackle AI Bias". The Fintech Times. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-05-12.

## External links

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* Seldon Core Repository
* Seldon Alibi Repository