William Falcon, Founder of Grid.ai

About William Falcon

William Falcon is the co-founder and CEO of Lightning AI (formerly Grid.ai), a platform designed to accelerate AI development. He is also the creator of PyTorch Lightning, a popular deep learning framework. Falcon previously held roles as a DeepMind Fellow and CDS PhD student at NYU before launching Grid.ai in October 2020.

William Falcon at a glance

• Company: Grid.ai
• Total raised: $59M
• Latest round: Series A
• Investors: Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Firstminute
• Location: New York, United States

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