Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Travis Oliphant has over 20 years’ experience in OSS scientific computing as the creator of NumPy, SciPy, Conda, and Numba, and as the Founder of Anaconda (Continuum Analytics), NumFOCUS, and PyData. He helped Python become the de facto language for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science by creating SciPy in 2001 and writing NumPy in 2006. Since 2007, Travis has consulted with Fortune 50 companies to build products and services that use open source effectively at scale for data science and analytics. Travis founded Anaconda in 2012 raising $24million from General Catalyst in 2015 to enable organizations to effectively perform machine learning at speed and scale. For many organizations, Anaconda has become the operating system of choice for data science and enables rapid development of automated intelligence. Anaconda already has incredible brand awareness with over 16 million users of its free distribution and downloads of more than a billion packages a year. Travis holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Mayo Clinic. From 2001 to 2007 he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BYU and taught electromagnetism, probability theory, and signal and image processing while directing a biomedical imaging lab.