Coiled was founded by Matthew Rocklin in 2020.

Who are Coiled's investors?

Coiled's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Chemistry, Costanoa Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, IA Ventures.

Coiled

Founded 2020 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors

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Coiled is a lightweight compute platform that enables data engineers and scientists to scale Python code to thousands of cloud machines without Kubernetes or Docker. It allows users to run distributed workloads in their own cloud account (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or in Coiled's shared cloud, with infrastructure provisioning and teardown managed automatically.

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Founders & leadership

Coiled was founded in 2020 by Matthew Rocklin.

Matthew Rocklin Founder · Chief Executive OfficerMatthew Rocklin is the founder of Coiled, a distributed computing platform for Python, and previously authored Dask, an open-source library for parallel and distributed computing.

Investors · 5

Bessemer Venture Partnerslisted by Bessemer Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $50K – $100M

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ChemistryreportedSan Francisco

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Costanoa VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $500K – $8M

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Essence Venture CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $10K – $10Mvia Timothy Chen · inferred

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IA VenturesreportedNew York · $1M – $3M

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Funding

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Undisclosed amountSeedOct 2020
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Non-dilutive funding · 1 SBIR/STTR award

Federal grants — no equity taken

Agency	Phase	Year	Amount
U.S. Air ForceAir Force	Phase II	2021	$750K

Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.

In the news

Coiled 9/30/2020 Capital Raise - Gaebler.com Venture Capital Databasegaebler.com · Sep 2020

Coiled Announces $5M Seed Funding to Meet the Needs of Modern Data Teamsprnewswire.com · Sep 2020

Frequently asked questions

What does Coiled do?: Coiled is a lightweight compute platform that enables data engineers and scientists to scale Python code to thousands of cloud machines without Kubernetes or Docker. It allows users to run distributed workloads in their own cloud account (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or in Coiled's shared cloud, with infrastructure provisioning and teardown managed automatically.
Who founded Coiled?: Coiled was founded by Matthew Rocklin in 2020.
Who are Coiled's investors?: Coiled's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Chemistry, Costanoa Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, IA Ventures.