Orchest
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Orchest was a Rotterdam-based open-source data science platform founded in 2020 by Rick Lamers and Yannick Perrenet. A cloud-native IDE, it let teams build data pipelines iteratively by editing and connecting notebooks and scripts, abstracting away infrastructure concerns so data scientists could focus on data and algorithms. Its pitch: become the data science platform inside companies so they no longer need a dedicated ML infrastructure team. In October 2021 it raised a €3 million seed round co-led by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund) and Basis Set Ventures.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
University friends Rick Lamers and Yannick Perrenet founded Orchest in Rotterdam to contribute to data science and machine learning tooling; Lamers had previously built the viral open-source project Grid Studio.
- Seed round
In October 2021 Orchest raised a €3 million seed round co-led by Gradient Ventures and Basis Set Ventures, with 100+ companies already on its private-cloud beta waitlist; it planned a public beta.
- No public outcome
No shutdown announcement, acquisition, or bankruptcy was ever publicly documented for the company.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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