Mountain View, Calif: January 25, 2019. Fiddler Labs was founded by Krishna Gade and Amit Paka in 2018. The Indian engineers left major American technology companies seeking to tackle two major issues in artificial intelligence and machine learning systems: the high costs for building products and lack of trust among both commercial and consumer users.

“Our team has converted data into intelligence over decades at companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Samsung, Pinterest, Amazon, PayPal and Microsoft, with deep expertise in building, deploying and scaling production systems to solve problems in deep learning, big data analytics, distributed databases and information retrieval…Our experiences working with product owners, data scientists, business analysts and operations teams have guided us to build Fiddler Labs,” Fiddler notes on its website. https://fiddler.ai/

This month Fiddler raised $3 million in funding from Bloomberg Beta and Lightspeed Venture, according to CNBC. It became very difficult for even people within Facebook to be able to figure out how AI tools used in its news feed were working, Gade told CNBC.

Besides Facebook, Gade earlier worked at Twitter, Microsoft and Pinterest. In 2016, he was also an adviser to New Delhi based UrbanClap. Gade has a M.S. in computer science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a B.S. in computer science from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India.

Amit Paka earlier worked at Samsung Mobile, Orange Peel Labs, Inc. and PayPal. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. On LinkedIn Paka states: “I lead the shopping apps product team at Samsung. I founded Parable, the Creative Photo Network, featured on iPhone & iPad App Store. It’s now part of the Samsung family. I led PayPal's consumer in-store mobile payments launching innovations like hardware beacon payments. Earlier, I released Flockish, a mobile social networking platform. It is now part of the eBay family. I've also developed successful startup products particularly in online advertising - paid search, contextual, ad exchange and display advertising.”