Your Data Science Workflows Are About To Get A Lot More Scalable

Doris Lee, CEO and co-founder of Ponder, has recently secured $7 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company aims to improve the usability and scalability of data science tools at scale. Ponder's founding team has made significant contributions to the open source community, including developing Lux, a visualization tool that automatically finds and displays insights from Pandas DataFrames. Another key project is Modin, which offers a more scalable version of Pandas without requiring users to change their code. The company focuses on making data science tools more accessible for professionals who are already familiar with Pandas, helping them scale up their analysis without needing to learn new frameworks or platforms.