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MindsDB is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in California, an innovator bringing AI and Data together and is focused on enabling developers to build AI capabilities that can Reason, Plan and Orchestrate over enterprise data.
History
MindsDB was founded in 2017 by Jorge Torres and Adam Carrigan. The idea was incubated in early 2018 at Skydeck from UC Berkeley during the first funded batch, this led to the MindsDB Open Source project which started in August 2018. On April 16, 2020, MindsDB raised $3 million. Among the investors were OpenOcean, MMC, Rogue Capital, Zyper founder Amber Atherton, SCM Advisors, YCombinator, and Berkeley SkyDeck. MindsDB core was re-written from scratch during their time at Y Combinator in March 2020. In late 2020, MindsDB began offering paid premium services.
On November 1, 2021, MindsDB announced an investment from Walden Catalyst Ventures, closing the total pre-seed round to $7.6M. Additionally, MindsDB announced partnerships with Snowflake, SingleStore, and DataStax (based on Apache CassandraTM) to connect its machine learning platform to these databases.
In the same month, February 2023, MindsDB announced its integration with Hugging Face and OpenAI that would allow natural language processing and generative AI models into their database via API accessible with SQL requests. This integration enabled advanced text classification, sentiment analysis, emotion detection, translation, and more.
During the same period, 2023, MindsDB raised a $46.5 million seed round from Benchmark, Mayfield and NVentures, and Chetan Puttagunta joined its board of directors.
Products
Minds - an intelligent turnkey private AI system able to understand complex queries, retrieve relevant data from enterprise systems, deliver insights and make actions. It goes beyond traditional models by providing transparency in its decision-making process, respecting data privacy allowing organizations to deploy it within secure, private environments.
MindsDB - an open-source data federation and orchestration engine for AI systems, that facilitates the implementation of custom AI workflows across hundreds of data and AI platforms.
Overview
MindsDB has formed strategic partnerships with leading companies such as Snowflake, SingleStore, DataStax, and NVIDIA. As of September 2024, the platform supports over 200 integrations, including popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral, as well as data platforms such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and MongoDB. MindsDB also integrates with a wide range of applications, including Salesforce, HubSpot, X(former Twitter), and many others.
Recognition
Named to Forbes' AI 50 list in 2021
Recognized as a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data-Centric AI
Ranked 10th fastest-growing open-source startup globally and 3rd in the US by ROSS Index in 2022
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative AI companies in 2024
Reached over 26k GitHub stars, 4.8k forks and 750 open-source contributors as of September 2024
References
Further reading
Gurevich, Natalia (2023-08-24). "AI companies flocking to Mission worry neighbors". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
External links
Official website
mindsdb on GitHub
