Seattle’s Gable.ai Crawls Out of Obscurity with a $7 Million Seed Funding

Building the ‘GitHub for Data’

Oh great! Another startup popping out from the woodwork like an unexpected mushroom! This time, it’s Seattle-based geniuses at Gable.ai, who’ve managed to scrounge up a whopping $7 Million in seed funding. Apparently, their grand ambition is to construct something called the ‘GitHub for data’. Every data scientist dabbling in variables equal to their level of coffee consumption just passed out in excitement, I’m sure.

Potential Implications

Naturally, they’re peddling this idea like it’s the second coming of sliced bread. Should this ‘GitHub for Data’ pipe dream actually manifest into reality, it could potentially simplify the way data is shared amongst data nerds. Face it, any changes or improvements to the current tedious ways of sharing data could indeed bring about a sigh of relief and ensure more bums on seats during those mind-numbing data science meets. Like they need another reason to sit in front of a computer screen.

Hot Take

In the closing analysis, even with ol’ Uncle Scrooge’s vault worth $7 Million, it’s going to be interesting to see if our friends at Gable.ai can actually produce the goods. Sure, developing a ‘GitHub for data’ might sound like a pipedream to a cynic like me, but it also has the potential to generate major benefits for the beleaguered data science community. Lest we forget, though, good ideas and a truckload of cash don’t necessarily result in success. Raise your hand if you think they’ll need a miracle bigger than a Starbucks macchiato to prevent this startup from sinking. Don’t all wave at once. So sleep tight, kiddos, and let’s see if this ‘GitHub for data’ fairy tale amounts to anything more than novelty nerd bait.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/with-github-for-data-gable-ai-wants-to-connect-software-engineers-and-ml-developers/