Company
Founded by a professor and graduates of the UC Berkeley RISE Lab, Ponder is the only company that helps data teams run popular data science libraries, such as pandas, directly on cloud–native data warehouses.
Mission
Our mission is to improve data science productivity by empowering users to do data science at all scales. We help data teams get to scalable insights faster, while preserving the ease-of-use and flexibility of the pandas API.
Join usOur Team
Doris Lee
CEO
Aditya Parameswaran
President
Devin Petersohn
CTO
Mahesh Vashishtha
Founding Software Engineer
Naren Krishna
Founding Software Engineer
Rehan Durrani
Founding Software Engineer
Labanya Mukhopadhyay
Software Engineer
Alejandro Herrera
Solution Architect
Bala Atur
Staff Software Engineer
Peter Olson
Chief of Staff
Hazem Elmeleegy
Founding Architect
Jonathan Shi
Software Engineer
Medha Atre
Research Scientist
John Kew
Principal Engineer
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Advisors
Matt Harrison
Vikram Madan
Mike Olson
Investors
Ponder is supported by amazing investors and advisors, including Lightspeed, 8VC, Intel Capital, and the House Fund
“Millions of data scientists rely on pandas, but run into scalability issues. With the key value proposition of ‘we'll run your code faster; no change to code required’, Ponder is well-positioned to be a market leader in scalable data science.”
Gaurav Gupta
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners“Ponder draws on cutting-edge distributed systems technology to solve the age-old problem of: ‘how do we run pandas at scale?’ Data scientists and ML engineers everywhere should pay close attention.”
Mike Olson
Former CEO of Cloudera, Ponder Advisor“Ponder is solving a significant challenge in the AI / Data Science Lifecycle: the ability to easily clean, transform, analyze and explore data at much larger scale and complexity. By democratizing and revolutionizing pandas, we believe Ponder will lead us to the next generation of AI-enabled, ‘smarter’ enterprises.”
“BG” Bhaskar Ghosh
Partner at 8VC“Ponder follows in the long history of Berkeley startups with unbeatable technology and massive open-source adoption. Similar to other successful Berkeley spinoffs, Databricks and Anyscale, Ponder is on a similar hyper-growth trajectory for impact, especially in the machine learning arena.”
Cameron Baradar
Partner at The House Fund“Ponder's emphasis on keeping data scientists first—and accelerating their speed of iteration, experimentation, exploration, and discovery, is invaluable for data teams looking to boost their ROI from data science.”
Mark Rostick
Vice President and Senior Managing Director at Intel Capital