About us
Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP and Prodigy, an annotation tool for radically efficient machine teaching.
Ines Montani CEO, Founder
Matthew Honnibal CTO, Founder
Sofie Van Landeghem Lead Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Adriane Boyd Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Paul O’Leary McCann Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Daniël de Kok Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Richard Hudson Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Peter Baumgartner Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Core Developer
Lj Miranda Machine Learning Engineer
Kabir Khan Machine Learning Engineer
Edward Schmuhl Machine Learning Engineer
Henriette Behr Machine Learning Engineer
Magdalena Anioł Machine Learning Engineer
Ákos Kádár Machine Learning Engineer
Madeesh Kannan Machine Learning Engineer
Vincent D. Warmerdam Machine Learning Engineer
Raphael Mitsch Machine Learning Engineer
Tamara Atanasoska Machine Learning Engineer
Valthor Halldorsson Machine Learning Engineer
Nipun Sadvilkar Machine Learning Engineer
Ryan Wesslen Machine Learning Engineer
Ryn Daniels Principal Engineer
Justin Van Winkle Principal Engineer
Nathaniel J. Smith Principal Engineer
Laura Summers Design Engineer
Jal Ridley Front-End Engineer
Alexandre Betioli Full-Stack Engineer
Fernando Martínez González Full-Stack Engineer
Lev Konstantinovskiy Project Manager
Schäran Byaniy Back-End Engineer
Philip Vollet Head of Developer Relations
Helena Steckmeister Technical Writer
Chung-Fan Tsai Developer Advocate
Victoria Slocum Developer Advocate
Walter Henry Head of Operations
Damian Romero Machine Learning Engineer (Intern)
Rehan Ahmed Machine Learning Engineer (Intern)
We believe…
- Artificial Intelligence is not magic. The technology is only useful if it’s easy to understand.
- The best AI products won’t be built from boxed solutions. Developers need custom models and transparent tools, not just cloud services.
- AI software needs better developer and user experience. This requires hybrid skill sets and radical attention to detail.
- If you ship it, you should own it. We believe in taking responsibility for our software, and letting you do the same.
- Technology should be accessible. We want to provide the most value with open-source software. That’s why we’ve built spaCy and our other tools and libraries.
- We’re not your typical startup. We’re bootstrapped, independent and put stability over moonshots.
Who owns Explosion
In August 2021, we sold 5% of Explosion to SignalFire for $6 million, with warrants for a further 10% at the same valuation. Employees are given a stake in Explosion using a virtual share bonus program. In July 2022, SignalFire exercised part of their warrants by investing a further $3 million to increase their stake in the company.