Chalk

Chalk is a company that offers a robust data platform designed for machine learning and generative AI applications. Its product suite includes Compute, Feature Store, Monitoring, Branches, and LLM Toolchain. The platform provides solutions for Credit, Fraud & Risk, and Predictive Maintenance, supporting both batch and streaming data sources. Chalk has raised $10 million in seed funding, led by General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Xfund, and has been recognized as one of the leading ML/AI Development Platforms in the 2024 CB Insights AI 100. The company has completed a SOC 2 Type 1 Report and offers a security program aligned with industry standards, certified via a SOC-2 Type 2 assessment. Integrations are supported with various tools and APIs, including Plaid, SentiLink, Socure, Emailage, Whitepages, and Early Warning Systems. Chalk provides real-time data pipelines and just-in-time data querying, with support for idiomatic Python in feature pipelines and data engineering workflows. The platform includes built-in scheduling, streaming, and caching capabilities, and enables feature discovery, versioning, and governance through a unified feature store. It also supports time-travel functionality for accurate historical data computation and offers monitoring and alerting for data quality, pipeline execution, and data freshness. Additionally, Chalk provides a toolchain for LLMs with features like vector embeddings, similarity search, and prompt engineering, and a Rust-based runtime for high-performance data processing. The platform supports deployment to various environments, including AWS and GCP, and offers a best-in-class developer experience for data teams to declare features and their dependencies, enabling real-time decisions with real-time data and eliminating the need for ETL processes.