Continuum co-founder here and previous NumPy developer. We received funding for Bokeh and also explorations around scalable "NumPy-like" work. The efforts around Blaze produced Numba, Dask, and Datashape as well as a more limited in scope library called Blaze.

While we continue to develop those things, we are working on taking the core ideas in NumPy and creating a set of lower-level C and Python libraries that could be used by pandas, xarray, Numba, dask, arrow, and potentially NumPy: https://github.com/plures. This work is not directly related to the NumPy funding.