LeapYear Technologies
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
LeapYear Technologies was a San Francisco-based enterprise software company founded in 2014, building a platform for differentially private reporting, analytics and machine learning. Its technology let institutions in healthcare, finance and insurance run analytics and machine learning on sensitive data without revealing personal identifying information; advisor Aaron Roth is a leading differential-privacy researcher and the company said its platform was deployed at around 1,000 organizations.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Founded in 2014 in the Bay Area to commercialize differential-privacy research for enterprise data.
- Series A
Raised a $9.7 million Series A.
- Series B
Raised a $27 million Series B; total funding reached about $36.7 million.
- Acquired by Snowflake
Acquired by Snowflake in February 2023, with Snowflake gaining LeapYear's differential-privacy technology.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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