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Domino Data Lab

Hollywood, US · Founded 2012 · Delaware corporation · 269 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors

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Domino Data Lab provides a platform for enterprise machine learning operations that enables data scientists to experiment, build models, and deploy AI applications at scale with governance and reproducibility. The platform serves large enterprises across life sciences, financial services, insurance, and the public sector.

Also known as Domino

Founders & leadership

Domino Data Lab was founded in 2012 by Nick Elprin, Christopher Yang, and Matthew Granade.

NENick Elprin
Nick ElprininCo-Founder, President & Chief Product Officer
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Christopher YanginCo-founderChristopher Yang is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Domino Data Lab, a machine learning operations platform used by enterprises in life sciences, financial services, insurance, and the public sector.
MGMatthew Granade
Matthew GranadeinCo-founderMatthew Granade previously co-founded Domino Data Lab and held roles in data and analytics at Point72 and as Co-Head of Research at Bridgewater. He now runs Dragonfly Insurance, a commercial brokerage, and has built automation tooling for the insurance submission process.
TRThomas Robinson
Thomas RobinsoninCEOHe previously led enterprise technology at Bridgewater Associates and studied mathematics and computer science at MIT.

Investors · 13

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$3.1M disclosed across 2 of 6 rounds · 2015–2025

$3MraisedAug 2015 · 2 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Christopher Minzer YangExecutive Officer, Director
  • Matthew D. GranadeDirector
  • Nicholas ElprinExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$3M
Amount sold
$3M
First sale
Jul 2015
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2012
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$100KraisedApr 2015 · 3 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Matthew W. GranadeExecutive Officer, Director
  • Christopher Minzer YangDirector
  • Nicholas ElprinDirector
Offering amount
$500K
Amount sold
$100K
First sale
Mar 2015
Incorporated
Corporation, Massachusetts, 2012
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Domino Data Lab offers an enterprise AI platform used by organizations to build, deploy and govern AI-powered applications and models within a single environment. The platform is organized around three components: a "model factory" for development work spanning statistical computing to agentic AI across multiple languages, frameworks and coding assistants; an "app hub" for distributing AI-powered applications to large user populations without rewriting code when moving from development to production; and a "governance center" for defining policies once and enforcing them across the model lifecycle with auditability, quality control and cost visibility.

Beyond core infrastructure, Domino packages the platform into targeted solutions, including statistical computing environments that unify SAS, R and Python for reproducible, audit-ready clinical trial analysis and regulatory filings; model risk management covering development through ongoing regulatory compliance; and document intelligence for reading, classifying and extracting insight from unstructured documents. Reproducibility and traceability are positioned as default behaviors, with experiments, models and decisions captured automatically, including output produced by coding assistants.

Business model

Domino provides a software platform that enterprises adopt as the shared environment for AI and data science work, extended by industry-specific solution packages such as statistical computing environments, model risk management and document intelligence.

Traction

Published customer outcomes include Moody's Analytics reporting a more than 50% reduction in model deployment time and a nine-month project shortened to four months alongside a 4x increase in model monitoring capability; the U.S. Navy reducing AI mine-detection model deployment time by 75%, described as moving from six months to six days; over 2,000 users onboarded onto GSK's platform; and UBS using Domino for model risk management for five years. The company also cites platform-level figures of a 50% reduction in end-to-end model lifecycle time, 6x faster model development, 40% lower infrastructure costs and 75% faster data scientist onboarding.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Positioned as a platform for the most regulated enterprises, with named customers including Moody's Analytics, Bayer, GSK, UBS and the U.S. Navy.

Domino positions building, scaling and governance as one unified platform rather than separate tools, emphasizing reproducibility by default, traceability for coding-assistant and agent output, and the ability to move applications from development to production without rewrites.

Technology

A code-first platform supporting multiple languages and frameworks (including SAS, R and Python), integration of third-party coding assistants, design and deployment of autonomous agents built with any agent framework, application hosting for production use, and automated capture of experiments and models for reproducibility, plus policy enforcement, audit trails and cost visibility.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by demos and expert consultations, industry-specific solution positioning for life sciences, financial services and the public sector, and published customer case studies; the U.S. Navy work is described as a partnership involving Domino, the Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit.

Large, heavily regulated enterprises and public-sector organizations, particularly in life sciences (preclinical research, clinical development, manufacturing, marketing and operations), financial services, and government and defense.

Geography

Serves global enterprises, including references to use across a global enterprise at Bayer and work with United States government and defense organizations.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Faster model development (claimed platform outcome)Jan 20256x
Faster onboarding for data scientists (claimed platform outcome)Jan 202575%
HeadcountAug 2026269
Moody's Analytics reduction in time to deploy modelsJan 2025>50%
Reduction in end-to-end model lifecycle time (claimed platform outcome)Jan 202550%
Reduction in infrastructure costs (claimed platform outcome)Jan 202540%
U.S. Navy model deployment time reductionJan 202575%
Users onboarded on GSK platformJan 20252,000 users
Years UBS has used Domino for model risk managementJan 20255 years

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

3 people who came through Domino Data Lab went on to found or lead other companies.

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Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
Domino Data LabDelaware

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Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Domino Data Lab do?
Domino Data Lab sells an enterprise AI platform for building, scaling and governing AI-powered applications.
Who founded Domino Data Lab?
Domino Data Lab was founded by Nick Elprin, Christopher Yang, Matthew Granade in 2012.
Who are Domino Data Lab's investors?
Domino Data Lab's investors include Coatue Management, Cowles Ventures, Highland Europe, Slow Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Dell Technologies Capital, Great Hill Partners and 5 more.
How much funding has Domino Data Lab raised?
Domino Data Lab has disclosed $3.1M raised across 2 of its 6 known rounds.
Where is Domino Data Lab headquartered?
Domino Data Lab is headquartered in Hollywood, US.