The Sequence Scope: Is There a Buddle in the Feature Store Market?

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📝 Editorial: Is There a Buddle in the Feature Store Market?

Feature stores have been steadily becoming one of the key building blocks in modern machine learning architectures. Arguably, the concept of a feature store can be traced back to the original Uber’s Michelangelo architecture, having gone all the way from being an imperceptible capability to a booming standalone market in the machine learning space. These days, there is a growing number of venture-backed startups that are building feature store capabilities for machine learning solutions. Just this week, machine learning startup Molecula raised a solid $17.6 million round for their feature store technology.

With that disproportionate growth, you can’t help but wonder if there is a little bubble in the feature store market. I am a big fan of the concept of feature stores as well as a user of the technology, but I believe there are a few questions that are worth considering when analyzing this emerging capability.

  • Are feature stores a standalone product or a capability of broader platforms?
  • Can feature stores develop as a standalone market?
  • Is a potential feature store

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Jesus Rodriguez

CEO of IntoTheBlock, President of Faktory, President of NeuralFabric and founder of The Sequence , Lecturer at Columbia University, Wharton, Angel Investor...