Insight Data Science
Insight Data Science is an intensive six week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap between academia and data science. Additionally, it helps engineers transition to careers in big data engineering.Insight Data Science is a Palo Alto based education startup. It is funded by Y Combinator and SV Angel with data science and engineering mentors participating from over a dozen companies including: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Square, Apple, Airbnb, Microsoft, Netflix, and many others. It was founded in 2012 by Jake Klamka.
Insight Data Science
Insight Data Science is an intensive six week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap between academia and data science. Additionally, it helps engineers transition to careers in big data engineering.Insight Data Science is a Palo Alto based education startup. It is funded by Y Combinator and SV Angel with data science and engineering mentors participating from over a dozen companies including: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Square, Apple, Airbnb, Microsoft, Netflix, and many others. It was founded in 2012 by Jake Klamka.
TL;DR
What they do: Intensive multi-week post-doctoral fellowship to transition PhD researchers and engineers into industry data science
Founded: 2012
Headquarters area: San Francisco / Palo Alto, United States
Notable investors: Initialized Capital; other investors/advisors include Hilary Mason, Monica Rogati, Bill Clerico
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Career transition and training for academics and engineers into applied data science and machine learning roles.
Founded
2012
Industry
Education / Workforce training
Funding Track Record
Series B listed as the last round in public profiles
Investor Signal
“Initialized Capital; individual investors/advisors associated include Hilary Mason, Monica Rogati, Bill Clerico”