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Coiled

Founded 2020 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

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481 people in our graph share verified history with the Coiled team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Paul Jennyunlockedknows Matthew Rocklin · together at University of California, Berkeley (overlapped)
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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.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Founders & leadership

Coiled was founded in 2020 by Matthew Rocklin.

MRMatthew Rocklin
Matthew RocklininFounder · 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 · 4

Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M
Costanoa VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $500K – $8M
Essence Venture CapitalreportedSeattle · $10K – $10Mvia Timothy Chen · inferred
IA VenturesreportedNew York · $1M – $3M

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

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Non-dilutive funding · 1 SBIR/STTR award

Federal grants — no equity taken
AgencyPhaseYearAmount
U.S. Air ForceAir ForcePhase II2021$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

Data and AI operations startup Coiled nabs $21M | VentureBeatventurebeat.com · May 2021Data Science Scaling Company Coiled Raises $5 Millionpulse2.com · Oct 2020Coiled Raises $5M in Seed Funding - FinSMEsfinsmes.com · Oct 2020Coiled 9/30/2020 Capital Raise - Gaebler.com Venture Capital Databasegaebler.com · Sep 2020Coiled 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, Costanoa Ventures, Essence Venture Capital, IA Ventures.