Weights & Biases Funding History

Weights & Biases develops tools for tracking machine learning experiments, evaluating models and managing them during development. It is part of CoreWeave.

Company Overview

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Weights & Biases

  • Infrastructure for AI Agents
  • AI Model Evaluation
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Weights & Biases Funding Timeline

  1. Announced Oct 13, 2021

    Series C

    US$135 million

    Felicis and BOND joined as new investors as Weights & Biases expanded its tools for managing machine learning workflows.

    Participation included Felicis, BOND, Insight Partners, Coatue.

    Source · prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Date under review

    Series B

    US$45 million

    Weights & Biases said it would expand beyond experiment tracking into tools for collaborating and managing machine learning workflows.

    Led by Insight Partners.

    Source · prnewswire.com ↗

Weights & Biases Founding Team

Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis founded Weights & Biases in 2017 to build better tools for machine learning practitioners.

Weights & Biases Products

  • W&B Weave

    Trace and evaluate what AI agents do across sessions.

Weights & Biases Company Development

Application Evaluation Joins Experiment Tracking

Weights & Biases built its workflow around recording model experiments and comparing results. Weave extended that work to evaluating AI applications, where teams need to trace what a deployed or test application did rather than only inspect a training run.

Weights & Biases Competitive Landscape

Experiment Records and Production Incidents

Weights & Biases covers experiments and application evaluation. Raindrop emphasizes finding failures in live agents and turning related traces into issues. Teams may want both types of record when deciding whether a promising test result holds up in production.