Pecan.ai Raises 11 Million to Bring Machine Learning to Business Analysts

Pecan.ai raises $11M Series A to enable business analysts to build machine learning models automatically. The startup was founded in 2016 by Zohar Bronfman and Noam Brezis, two PhDs in computational neuroscience. It is part of a second wave of companies bridging the technical gap between non-technical staff who know the business needs well, and machine learning capabilities. The company now counts just under 30 employees and is opening offices in New York. Dataiku, the collaborative data science platform, was founded on similar claims of helping business intelligence staff collaborate with data scientists.