Algorithmia

Algorithmia was a Seattle-based enterprise software company, founded in 2013, that built tooling for the machine learning operations (MLOps) lifecycle — model development, deployment, management and governance. The platform was designed to let organizations run models in a scalable, secure environment and to make the process of incorporating machine learning into existing software-development workflows repeatable, with support for cloud, on-premise and edge infrastructure.

The company began as a marketplace of online algorithms that developers could call through a REST API, supported by client libraries for Python, R, Java, Node.js and browser JavaScript, plus a data API for files and directories. It later shifted focus from the marketplace to helping enterprises put their own algorithms and models into production. By the time of its acquisition, more than 130,000 people had used the platform, including users at Merck, Ernst & Young and Deloitte.

DataRobot acquired Algorithmia in July 2021 and said it would integrate the platform into its own product. The algorithmia.com domain now serves DataRobot's enterprise AI platform, which markets tools for agentic AI, generative and predictive AI, AI observability and AI governance across roles from data scientists and ML engineers to DevOps and IT/infosec, deployable on-premise, in a virtual private cloud or as SaaS.

Founding story

Diego Oppenheimer co-founded Algorithmia in 2013 with Kenny Daniel, who served as CTO. Oppenheimer had previously spent more than five years at Microsoft, where he worked on data products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server and Power BI, and was program manager for Microsoft Excel.

Business model

Algorithmia sold software to enterprises for putting machine learning models into production, positioning its platform as infrastructure that data science, engineering, DevOps and IT teams use jointly. Deployment options span on-premise, virtual private cloud and SaaS infrastructure. Following the DataRobot acquisition, the technology was folded into DataRobot's broader enterprise AI platform offering.

Enterprise software for machine learning model deployment and governance, deployed on-premise, in a virtual private cloud or as software as a service.

Traction

More than 130,000 people had used the Algorithmia platform as of July 2021, including at Merck, Ernst & Young and Deloitte. The company had 58 employees and had raised $37.9 million at the time of its acquisition. Its open-source client repositories on GitHub accumulated community usage, with the sample-apps and Python client repositories drawing 195 and 138 stars respectively.

Latest developments

DataRobot completed its acquisition of Algorithmia in July 2021, announced alongside DataRobot's $300 million Series G round at a $6.3 billion valuation, and stated it would integrate Algorithmia's technology into its AI platform. Diego Oppenheimer remained with DataRobot. Public Algorithmia GitHub repositories continued to receive updates through 2023 and early 2024, and the algorithmia.com domain now presents DataRobot's AI platform.