AI infrastructure

Activeloop

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Founded 2018Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We provide a simple API for creating, storing, versioning, and collaborating on multi-modal AI datasets of any size. With Activeloop's open-core stack, you can rapidly transform and stream data while training models at scale. Deep Lake powers foundational model training by acting as a vector database with significant benefits, such as (1) the ability to use multi-modal datasets to fine-tune your own LLM models, (2) storing both the embeddings and the original data with automatic version control, so no embedding re-computation is needed (3) truly serverless service with no vendor lock-in. How cool is that?

GitHub loves us - we're one of the fastest-growing libraries there, and we're used by little-known companies like Google, Waymo, and Intel. No big deal.

Our founding team hails from places like Princeton, Stanford, Google, and Tesla, and we're backed by Y Combinator & other Silicon Valley heavyweights.

Activeloop is hiring, and we want you! Check out our open roles on our YC page and join the fun.

10-min demo: https://activeloop.wistia.com/medias/aibvo0dst2

Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Snark.ai, Snark AI

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Davit Buniatyan

Founder

Founding CEO Activeloop, PhD on leave from Princeton, AI/ML, Data and Infra, Y Combinator S18, UCL 16’ Working on Data 2.0

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
15team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
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