Friday, February 28, 2020

Gretel Gets Seed Funding For Data Sharing Startup

San Diego-based Gretel has raised a seed round of funding, to go towards its development of software which helps developers and engineers access and share anonymized data for developing applications. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Greylock Partners and Village Capital. The startup is led by Alex Watson, who serves as founder and CEO. Watson--along with his co-founders, John Myers, Ali Golshan and Laszlo Bock--were engineers and developers who had worked for the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services. According to the start, it is developing toolsets, services, and APIs which lets developers experiment, collaborate, and build with anonymized customer data, using machine learning models to automate joining data with complementary open source datasets, private datasets, and other sources.

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