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 Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy Lead
Adriane Boyd Machine Learning Engineer
Daniël de Kok Machine Learning Engineer
Kabir Khan Machine Learning Engineer
Magdalena Anioł Machine Learning Engineer, Prodigy Lead
Madeesh Kannan Machine Learning Engineer
Vincent D. Warmerdam Machine Learning Engineer
Raphael Mitsch Machine Learning Engineer
Valthor Halldorsson Machine Learning Engineer
Ryan Wesslen Machine Learning Engineer
Emanuel Dima Systems Engineer
Laura Summers Design Engineer, Prodigy Teams Lead
Jal Ridley Front-End Engineer
Alexandre Betioli Full-Stack Engineer
Fernando Martínez González Full-Stack Engineer
Helena Steckmeister Designer
Walter Henry Head of Operations
Anna Wieser Operations
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.
Board Members
Matthew Honnibal CTO, Founder
Ines Montani CEO, Founder
Oana Olteanu SignalFire