Marimo raises $5M to build an open-source reactive Python notebook

Hey all, this is Akshay, co-creator of marimo, an open-source reactive Python notebook that's been on HN a few times (https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo).

Since our ShowHN earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971966), marimo has grown to over 1M downloads and dozens of contributors.

To keep up, our company Marimo Inc. has raised a seed round led by Anthony Goldbloom (founder of Kaggle) and Shyam Mani at AIX Ventures. We're also backed by Jeff Dean (Google), Clem Delangue (HuggingFace), Ben Hamner (ex-Kaggle, Sumble), Charlie Marsh (Astral), Paige Bailey (Google), Lukas Biewald (Weights and Biases), Wes McKinney (Posit, Composed Ventures), Jordan Tigani (MotherDuck), and Shane Barratt.

Our fundraise lets us keep doing what we’ve already been doing ­— building marimo. We’re committed to developing in the open, and to keeping marimo free, open-source, and permissively-licensed.

Just as we’re making marimo a great programming environment for working with data, one day we'd like to make a great platform for working with data. Our company will eventually offer a product that optionally integrates with marimo and other tools we develop, but the tools themselves will always be open source and permissively licensed.

For now, our fundraise lets us fully commit to building the marimo notebook. It also gives us the room to explore building other tools for working with data. We’ve come a long way since our ShowHN, but there’s still a lot more we want to build. We're currently brainstorming our roamdap to V1 and would love your feedback: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo/discussions/2899

Congrats on the successful seed round!