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Qwak is a technology company.
Qwak provides an MLOps platform, now operating as JFrog ML, that unifies machine learning engineering and data operations to accelerate the deployment of AI applications. The platform offers a comprehensive solution for building, deploying, managing, and monitoring the entire AI/ML lifecycle, delivering agile infrastructure designed to reduce the friction between ML research and production environments. It empowers practitioners to bring AI initiatives from concept to high-scale production efficiently.
The company was founded in 2019 by Alon Lev (CEO), Yuval Fernbach (CTO), Ran Romano (VP of Engineering), and Lior Penso (COO). These founders brought substantial experience from prominent technology companies, including leadership roles at Payoneer and Amazon Web Services. Their collective insight highlighted the significant challenges faced by AI teams in operationalizing machine learning models, leading them to create a platform that simplifies and streamlines the entire production process.
The platform serves data science and ML engineering teams, enabling them to build, train, and deploy high-quality AI solutions with greater ease and speed. Qwak's long-term vision is to empower organizations to deliver AI applications rapidly and at scale, facilitating the efficient transformation of data science projects into impactful production systems. The company aims to be the foundational infrastructure for modern AI development.
Qwak has raised $27.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Qwak has raised $27.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Qwak has raised $27.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $12.0M Series A in February 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2023 | $12M Series A | — | BDC Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cedar Capital Group, Flybridge, High Alpha, MizMaa Ventures, Seedcamp, StageOne Ventures, Ameet Patel, URI Boness, Amiti Ventures, Leaders Fund | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2022 | $11M Series A | Leaders Fund | Andreessen Horowitz, Asymmetric, BDC Venture Capital, F7 Ventures, Griffin Gaming Partners, High Alpha, Insight Partners, Latitud, NFX, Play Ventures, PS Investments, StageOne Ventures, Team8, Teclub, Visible Ventures, Arash Ferdowsi, Maxime Paradis, MEG Whitman, Nimrod Lehavi, Shahaf BAR Geffen, Yoni Assia, Yuval Shahar, Eugen Miropolski, Philippe Suchet, Rani Wellingstein, Tamir Carmi, Amiti Ventures | Announced |
| Jul 1, 2021 | $4M Seed | — | StageOne Ventures | Announced |
Qwak is a scalable machine-learning (ML) platform that streamlines the full lifecycle of AI models, from development and training to deployment, monitoring, and management, enabling teams to deliver production AI applications efficiently.[1][2][4] It serves data scientists, ML engineers, and software development teams across industries by solving the friction between ML research and production, offering tools like model registry, build systems, feature stores, one-click training on GPU/CPU, scalable serving as APIs or batch/streaming inference, real-time monitoring, and LLM-specific capabilities such as prompt management and optimized deployments of models like Llama 3 or Mistral.[1][3][4] Founded in 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Qwak raised $31.31M before being acquired by JFrog in June 2024, integrating its technology into JFrog's platform for unified DevSecOps and MLSecOps.[1][2][3]
Post-acquisition, JFrog ML (formerly Qwak) continues to power high-scale AI workflows, including GenAI and LLMs, with strong growth momentum evidenced by its selection by top AI teams and expansion to support enterprise-grade security, provenance, and collaboration.[3][4]
Qwak was founded in 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel, by CEO and Co-Founder Alon Lev and a team focused on bridging the gap between ML research and production deployment.[1][3] The idea emerged from the need to standardize and automate ML workflows, allowing data scientists to create immutable, production-grade artifacts without heavy infrastructure management—addressing common pain points like versioning data, code, and parameters.[1][2] Early traction came from its end-to-end platform, which gained adoption for reducing deployment friction, leading to $31.31M in funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners.[1][2] A pivotal moment arrived in June 2024 when JFrog acquired Qwak, enabling its technology to scale within JFrog's "Liquid Software" ecosystem for secure software supply chains.[2][3]
Qwak rides the explosive growth of AI/ML operations (MLOps), where enterprises struggle to operationalize models amid rising demand for GenAI and LLMs, with market forces like talent shortages and infrastructure complexity favoring integrated platforms.[1][3][4] Its timing aligns with the post-2023 AI boom, accelerating safe deployment of production AI while JFrog's acquisition taps into DevOps convergence with MLSecOps, influencing the ecosystem by unifying siloed ML teams with software delivery pipelines.[2][3] By enabling faster, secure AI at scale, Qwak helps industries like finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity adopt AI responsibly, contributing to a $5.5B+ Israeli tech portfolio wave.[1]
With JFrog's resources, Qwak's platform will likely expand MLSecOps dominance, integrating deeper with LLMs/GenAI for automated, secure AI supply chains amid trends like agentic AI and regulatory scrutiny on model provenance.[3][4] Expect enhancements in multi-cloud scaling, advanced monitoring for data drifts, and broader enterprise adoption, evolving its influence from niche MLOps to core infrastructure for AI-powered apps—solidifying its role in frictionless AI delivery from idea to high-scale production.[3][4]
Qwak has raised $27.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Qwak's investors include BDC Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cedar Capital Group, Flybridge, High Alpha, MizMaa Ventures, Seedcamp, StageOne Ventures, Ameet Patel, Uri Boness, Amiti Ventures, Leaders Fund.