Outerbounds

Outerbounds

Open-source ML platform for data science

Overview

Outerbounds provides Metaflow, an open-source machine learning platform originally created at Netflix, and now maintained by Outerbounds to help data scientists and engineers build and manage real-world data science projects. The core product is Metaflow, a framework that enables users to develop end-to-end workflows with built-in support for version control and experiment tracking, while being freely accessible to the community. Outerbounds complements the platform with educational content such as blogs and books to help teams set up ML infrastructure and scale their work. The company targets a community of practitioners and enterprises, offering Metaflow at no cost and potentially monetizing through premium features, support services, or partnerships. In short, Outerbounds aims to give data science teams a solid, reusable foundation for their projects and infrastructure, so organizations can run reliable experiments, manage data, and accelerate ML delivery.

Significant Headcount Growth

About Outerbounds

Simplify's Rating
Why Outerbounds is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$24.3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Anaconda acquisition on April 29, 2026 accesses 50 million users.
  • Combined platform unifies secure AI development lifecycle end-to-end.
  • Open-source Metaflow sustains community growth post-acquisition.

What critics are saying

  • Acquisition ends Outerbounds independence effective April 29, 2026.
  • Anaconda redirects all customers within 3-6 months.
  • AI code defects disrupt integrations within 6-12 months.

What makes Outerbounds unique

  • Metaflow originated at Netflix for production ML orchestration.
  • Cloud-agnostic design integrates with Snowflake and Databricks.
  • Human-centric interface simplifies versioning and experiment tracking.

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Funding

Total Funding

$24.3M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$15M
$8.2M
Discord
$15M
Canva
$18.5M
Outerbounds
$30M
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Benefits

Stock Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

Health Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Phone/Internet Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Adoption Assistance

Parental Leave

Remote Work Options

Paid Vacation

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

11%
PR Newswire
Jun 24th, 2024
Outerbounds And Codemate Announce Collaboration To Accelerate Custom Ai/Ml Solutions For Enterprises

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Outerbounds today announces a strategic collaboration with systems integrator Codemate to help enterprises develop and deploy bespoke AI/ML solutions on Outerbounds' robust and proven ML/AI platform.As enterprises transition from isolated AI/ML prototypes to critical business applications, they face the challenge of integrating domain expertise, customizations, and reliable ML infrastructure. This collaboration addresses these challenges by combining Codemate's expertise in custom-tailored solutions with Outerbounds' proven platform.Tailored Solutions on a Proven FoundationThere is no one size fits all when it comes to building production-grade, differentiated AI/ML solutions. Enterprises need solutions that incorporate their unique domain expertise, seamlessly integrate with existing systems, and comply with internal policies. "With over 17 years of experience in developing enterprise-grade custom software Codemate understands the technical and operational requirements of large organizations", said Toni Piirainen, CEO and co-founder of Codemate.To accelerate time-to-market and ensure a positive ROI in AI, it's crucial to build tailored solutions on a proven platform rather than starting from scratch. "Since 2017, we've provided infrastructure powering AI and ML at Netflix and thousands of other AI-mature organizations through our industry-standard, open-source platform, Metaflow. This allows companies to rapidly build data-intensive solutions on a proven foundation, securely running in their environment", said Ville Tuulos, CEO and co-founder of Outerbounds.A New Offering Based on Long-term PartnershipOuterbounds and Codemate have a proven history of collaboration, having worked together on developing Metaflow in partnership with Netflix and other contributors

WVNEWS
Jun 24th, 2024
Outerbounds and Codemate Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Custom AI/ML Solutions for Enterprises

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Outerbounds today announces a strategic collaboration with systems integrator Codemate to help enterprises develop and deploy bespoke AI/ML solutions on Outerbounds' robust and proven ML/AI platform.

PR Newswire
Mar 18th, 2024
Outerbounds Opens Access To Large-Scale Gpu Resources On Nvidia Dgx Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NVIDIA GTC - Outerbounds, a developer platform for ML/AI systems built by the creators of Metaflow that powers Netflix and hundreds of other sophisticated ML/AI organizations, today announced that select customers can now access NVIDIA DGX Cloud , available through the NVIDIA ecosystem of leading cloud service providers. As a result, companies previously limited by the cost or availability of cloud-based accelerated computing have a new avenue to run their experiments and production workloads confidently at scale.Innovation shouldn't be limited by computeAs companies are increasingly adopting sophisticated data-intensive techniques to improve their business, including both traditional machine learning as well as new large language models and generative AI, their compute requirements grow rapidly. The new workloads demand new kinds of software stack and tooling, such as the platform provided by Outerbounds.Expanding access to large-scale cloud GPUs provided by NVIDIA boosts AI/ML innovation Post thisWith the new integration, Outerbounds' customers can now use serverless APIs to easily deploy and manage AI tasks on GPUs via NVIDIA DGX Cloud. This offers better security, scalability, and reliability for their workloads, both during prototype development and production runs of new ML and AI models.Thanks to Metaflow, known for its human-centric design, ML and AI developers and data scientists can benefit from the new capability with just a few lines of code, empowering them to experiment faster and ship to production quicker. Meanwhile, the engineering teams can rest assured that production workloads won't run into capacity issues, which have been a common concern over the past years.NVIDIA DGX CloudThe compute resources are available through NVIDIA DGX Cloud, which provides access to accelerated computing infrastructure, tools, and software that streamline developer workflow and scale productivity. DGX Cloud enables an end-to-end AI development experience, from pretraining to fine-tuning to inference, powered by a serverless API to deploy and manage AI workloads, with enterprise-grade security, scale, and reliability.Build and ship ML/AI systems, not just modelsBuilding real-world, production-quality ML and AI systems takes more than access to GPUs

VMblog
Jul 24th, 2023
VMblog expert interview: 4 new features in the Outerbounds Platform - cloud workstations and more : @vmblog

Last week, Outerbounds announced a major drop of new features in its Outerbounds Platform.

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