Iterative
San Francisco, US · Founded 2018 · Delaware corporation · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Iterative.ai makes DataChain, a Python-based data management and versioning layer that runs distributed transformations over files in a company's own cloud storage (S3/GCS/Azure), capturing dataset lineage, metadata, and reproducible experiments. It targets AI/ML researchers and data engineering teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500, letting them search, reuse, and recall datasets and LLM/embedding compute rather than recomputing.
Founders & leadership
Iterative was founded in 2018 by Ivan Shcheklein and Dmitry Petrov.
Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$23.9M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2019–2026
▶$20.1MraisedJun 2021 · 5 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Ivan ShchekleinDirector
- Dmitry PetrovExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $20.1M
- Amount sold
- $20.1M
- First sale
- Feb 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$3.9MraisedSep 2019 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(c)
- Ivan ShchekleinDirector
- Dmitry PetrovExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $4.5M
- Amount sold
- $3.9M
- First sale
- Sep 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06c
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
In the news
Simaia, an AI-Native GEO Marketing Team, Raises Pre-Seed Funding via Iterative’s S26 Batch | Press Releases | wboc.comwboc.com · Aug 2026
Iterative raises $20M for its MLOps platformtechcrunch.com · Jun 2021Frequently asked questions
- What does Iterative do?
- Iterative.ai makes DataChain, a Python-based data management and versioning layer that runs distributed transformations over files in a company's own cloud storage (S3/GCS/Azure), capturing dataset lineage, metadata, and reproducible experiments. It targets AI/ML researchers and data engineering teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500, letting them search, reuse, and recall datasets and LLM/embedding compute rather than recomputing.
- Who founded Iterative?
- Iterative was founded by Ivan Shcheklein, Dmitry Petrov in 2018.
- Who are Iterative's investors?
- Iterative's investors include Afore Capital, 468 Capital, Locus Ventures, True Ventures.
- How much funding has Iterative raised?
- Iterative has disclosed $23.9M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Iterative headquartered?
- Iterative is headquartered in San Francisco, US.