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Lukas Biewald (born 1981 in Massachusetts) is the CEO and co-founder of Weights & Biases.

In 2010, Inc. Magazine included Biewald and Van Pelt on its list of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.[1] Biewald and Van Pelt launched CrowdFlower as a product of Dolores Labs at TechCrunch50[2] in 2009, where the company placed as a finalist. Before Weights & Biases, Lukas was the co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt.[3] In 2019, Biewald sold Figure Eight to Appen for 300 million dollars.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lagorio, Christine (19 July 2010). "Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, Founders of Crowdflower". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  2. ^ "The TechCrunch50 Finalists 2009". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
  3. ^ Barret, Victoria (11 March 2009). "Dolores Labs Vets Web Sites On The Cheap". Forbes. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  4. ^ Ha, Anthony. "Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together".
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