Our mission
We're building the world's best Python toolchain for working with data to power the world's best data platform. We've started with the marimo notebook, which is free and open-source.
The marimo notebook
marimo is a reinvention of the Python notebook as a reproducible, interactive, and shareable Python program, instead of an error-prone JSON scratchpad.
We believe that the tools we use shape the way we think — better tools, for better minds. With marimo we hope to provide the Python community with a better programming environment to do research and share it; to build tooling and use it; to explore data and transform it; and to learn computational science and teach it.
Our inspiration comes from many places, especially Pluto.jl and Observable. marimo is part of a greater movement toward reactive dataflow programming. From IPyflow, streamlit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, and React, the ideas of functional, declarative, and reactive programming are transforming a broad range of tools for the better.
Team
We've built products, platforms, and libraries for ML engineers and software developers at Google, Palantir, CloudKitchens, and more, and have extensive ML research experience.
Akshay Agrawal
Co-Founder, CEO
Akshay is a former Google Brain engineer and has a PhD in ML from Stanford University.
Myles Scolnick
Co-Founder, CTO
Myles is a former Palantir and CloudKitchens engineer, and has lead teams across product and web platforms.
Vincent Warmerdam
Founding Engineer
Vincent is a senior data professional with many meaningful contributions to the PyData stack.
Dylan Madisetti
Founding Engineer
Dylan is a former Google Engineer with a PhD in Computational Solid Mechanics from Johns Hopkins.
Shahmir Varqha
Founding Engineer
Shahmir is a former Grab engineer who worked on building scalable systems and improving data workflows.
Trevor Manz
Founding Engineer
Trevor is the creator of anywidget and has a PhD from Harvard, where he worked on interactive visualization and open-source tools for scientific computing.
Investors
Backed by the best investors and founders in data.
Anthony Goldbloom
Kaggle
Jeff Dean
Clement Delangue
HuggingFace
Ben Hamner
ex-Kaggle, Sumble
Jordan Tigani
MotherDuck
Charlie Marsh
Astral
Lukas Biewald
Weights and Biases
Wes McKinney
Posit, Composed Ventures
Get in touch
Whether you want to get involved in the community, give feedback, or just say hi, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you.