
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, providing a platform for machine learning competitions, datasets, and collaborative projects. With over 21 million users, Kaggle enables data scientists and machine learning practitioners to share knowledge, compete in challenges, and access a vast repository of datasets and models. The platform differentiates itself through its community-driven approach, offering resources like public notebooks, competitions, and courses that cater to learners, developers, and researchers alike. Kaggle's traction is evident with 411K datasets, 1.2M notebooks, and 12,900 models available for users, making it a key player in the data science and machine learning landscape.

Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, providing a platform for machine learning competitions, datasets, and collaborative projects. With over 21 million users, Kaggle enables data scientists and machine learning practitioners to share knowledge, compete in challenges, and access a vast repository of datasets and models. The platform differentiates itself through its community-driven approach, offering resources like public notebooks, competitions, and courses that cater to learners, developers, and researchers alike. Kaggle's traction is evident with 411K datasets, 1.2M notebooks, and 12,900 models available for users, making it a key player in the data science and machine learning landscape.
What: Platform and community for data science competitions, datasets, notebooks, and courses
Founded: 2010
Founders: Anthony Goldbloom, Ben Hamner
Acquisition: Acquired by Google in March 2017
Scale: Millions of users and hundreds of thousands of datasets and notebooks
Data science and machine learning collaboration, benchmarking, and education
2010
Data science / Machine learning
11000000.00
Reported Series A of $11M with participation from angel and institutional investors
12500000.00
Aggregate funding reported by industry sources prior to acquisition (approx. $12.5M–$12.75M)
“Index Ventures; Khosla Ventures; other angel and institutional investors (e.g., SV Angel, Max Levchin, Yuri Milner, Stanford Management Company, Hal Varian)”